RUMBLE BARS: the recipe
Sometimes, a girl just needs to have chocolate..and LOTS of it. On my day off last Thursday, I decided that I’d been a very good girl with my diet lately and I needed a reward. So after a solo lunch at CRU, a raw, all-natural food restaurant in Silver Lake, I moseyed on over to Trader Joe’s for some ingredients. Now, I love to bake and make things from scratch and it’s been a VERY long time since I made things from a box, but I came across a recipe for these Rumble Bars in the Trader Joe’s website that I’ve been meaning to try out. So here it is. (TJ’s calls them Rumble Cakes, but I found the consistency to be more brownie-like. They’re definitely more dense than what I think cakes should be..so I called them bars instead).
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 box TJ’s Truffle Brownie Mix
- 1/4 cup TJ’s Dried Tart Montmorency Cherries
- 1/4 cup walnuts
- 1 box TJ’s Frozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Preheat the oven to 350°. Bring the butter to room temperature and combine the eggs with the butter and whisk/ mix. Slowly add in the brownie mix. Once the mixture is uniform, add in the cherries and walnuts; set aside. Lightly grease a brownie pan and place the chunks of cookie dough sporadically around the bottom of the pan (there may be a few pieces of cookie dough left, do with them what you must). Pour the brownie mix over the top, evenly coating the cookie dough. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 45 minutes or until you can stick a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean. Enjoy!
