As it turns out… I have a cookie monster living in my house and she’s turning 9 years old tomorrow. Though maybe she’s more of a cake monster since she’s somehow managing to get three birthday cakes this year due to a series of fortunate events. Yes, FORTUNATE events.

Every ear for my daughter’s birthday, I make her something special that I can take up to her school at lunch and let her share with her friends. This time around she requested a cookie cake. Which… is what I made last year. And we can’t do the same thing over again. So! I decided to take that cookie cake a step further and make it into a BROOKIE cake. What’s a brookie, you ask? A brownie and a cookie combined together!

With there being two third grade classes, and my daughter knowing all the kiddos in each class, I decided to make a big party style set of two… count them TWO brookie cakes. To start these off, I went with a fun trick on lightening up brownie mix by using applesauce instead of oil. After that is the same-same recipe that I used for that Giant Cookie Cake I made her last year.

And on top of it all? Well that’s some lightly colored homemade buttercream frosting and a bunch of sprinkled cookie crumbs. Because that’s just what you do when Cookie Monster is involved. You throw all the cookies at it.

The end result here was two giant brookie cakes and two class rooms full of happy and sugared up third graders. Plus, one very very very happy birthday girl.

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Nutritional Claims: Low Potassium • Kidney Friendly • Pescatarian •Peanut Free • Tree Nut Free • Soy Free • Fish Free • Shellfish Free • Pork Free • Red Meat Free • Crustacean Free • Celery Free • Mustard Free • Sesame Free • Lupine Free • Mollusk Free • Alcohol Free • Kosher