Chocolate Cookies From Fudge Brownie Mix

Posted on Facebook June 2010.  

Chocolate Cookies From Fudge Brownie Mix

1 pkg. (19.8 oz.) fudge brownie mix
1/2 c. flour
1/4 c. granulated sugar
1/4 c. soften unsalted butter
3 tbsp. water
2 eggs
1 cup mini chocolate chips.  (The mini because they melt better)
1 cup confectionery sugar - DO NOT MIX THIS IN.
This sugar is for cookies to be rolled into
before baking.

350 oven for 10 minutes.

2 sheets of parchment paper
*I had concocted this on my own before I ever saw a recipe
on the internet.  My dad searched and searched just about forever
to find a perfect CHOCOLATE cookie.  This would have been IT.

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In a separate bowl soften unsalted butter up
just a little in microwave. Don't make it so it's to thin
or hot. Micro on level 3 for about a minute. Mix
unsalted butter  with a fork to blend smooth.

In a large bowl, add mix, flour, water, eggs, granulated
sugar, and butter. Mix by hand with spoon
or fork. Batter will be stiff.  Last add in chocolate chips.

Line baking sheets with parchment paper

Add 1 cup confectionery sugar to a separate bowl.

Roll about a tablespoon of batter into a ball.
Drop ball into confectionery sugar to coat all sides.

Bake approx 10 minutes. Cookies may appear soft
but will set up when cooled.

I bake one tray of cookies at a time. When 1 tray is done,
I remove tray to cooling rack. Let sit on tray for about 3
minutes. Pick up entire sheet of parchment with cookies still
on them and set on newspaper.

Have a sheet of wax paper or several paper towels folded up
to transfer cookies to finish cooling. The cookies will come
right up with a spatula. NO STICKING AT ALL.

Shake off parchment paper and reuse for the next batch.

I doubled this recipe, and it made approximately 75 cookies
that are 2 1/2 inches in diameter.

This was the 1st time I ever made cookies from a brownie
mix and they came out GREAT. Chewy and delicious.
I added the weight of the brownie mix to give an idea
of what weight to use. If it was between 19 and 22 some
ounces, the recipe should not need adjusting.
I used a generic type mix.

I am IN LOVE with parchment paper. I would never bake
cookies without it. I only started using it last year.
It makes clean up a breeze and NO cookies stick to the paper. 

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My son was serving in the Air Force in South Korea in early 2010  
I sent him a batch....
Here was a reply message from him....

Hey ma,

Ohhhh ok. Well these were amazing.. I was giving them to anyone who came in the office and they're all like what in the hell are these things!?!? They're amazing!!! I was like i dunno... mom made them.. lol. To say they were a hit would be an understatement.. ;) Thanks again! love ya

Love V

Scattering CJ - The Loss of One Becomes The Journey of Many

The following statement was shared by Hallie Twomey

on April 5, 2019 on her Facebook page

 

"I feel like I should stand on the rooftop and yell, “WE INTERRUPT THIS REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAM FOR AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE.”

Just received the SCATTERING CJ film poster.

I knew it was close to being finished but it still took my breath away.

It’s awesome.

Makes me smile and want to cry.

I love that they used a search engine format for the title.

Without the ability to reach and connect with people online, SCATTERING CJ wouldn’t be what it is today.

Feeling so many feels that it’s hard to stay still.

What a journey this has been. (And continues to be).

Don’t forget to check out the film website and share it far and wide.

Something positive needs to come from this film. Even one less person following in CJ’s footsteps is a victory."

www.scatteringcjthemovie.com

When seemingly happy, travel-infatuated CJ Twomey violently ended his own life at age 20, 

his family was plunged into unrelenting grief and guilt. In a moment of desperate inspiration, 

his mother Hallie put out an open call on Facebook, looking only for a handful of travelers 

who might help fulfill her son's wish to see the world by scattering some of his ashes in 

a place of beauty or special meaning.

Twenty-one thousand strangers liked the Facebook page, and one thousand volunteers 

have since taken CJ to over one hundred countries. While crisscrossing the globe, 

his ashes and his family’s story have given rise to a social media phenomenon — 

a worldwide community — that has congregated in solidarity and empathy in dealing 

with a still heavily stigmatized and misunderstood form of mental illness.

Aggregating hundreds of clips chronicling personal ash-scattering pilgrimages worldwide, 

combined with intimate interviews and vérité filmmaking, Hallie’s story — one that 

has cross-pollinated and traveled so organically, resonantly, inspirationally — shows us 

that social media can act as a connector and a vehicle for empathy, as opposed to 

the more toxic aspects of social media interaction we're currently witnessing. 

Her story further illustrates how there can be positive action grown from suicide, 

and that even if it isn't reliably predictable, it just may in some cases be preventable.

​

Scattering CJ is scheduled for release in 2019.

 

~*~ CJ Twomey ~*~