Alright, I didn’t really shove a bird in a cookie, but I thought I should share a fun new dessert that I tried for the first time last night. Technically, they are called “pillow cookies.” However, given that the basic idea is to shovel a brownie inside of a chocolate chip cookie, I think “turducken” is more appropriate.

I learned about them when my colleague David challenged me to take my cookies to a new level last Friday, and produced a blog post by Bakerella. I think “new level” might have meant more layers (David kept suggesting we find a way to deep fry them as well), but I decided to surprise them with an invitation to turducken-it up.

More pictures after the jump…

Basically the idea is to wrap a brownie in cookie dough. (Lego guy here for perspective — these dough balls were huge.)

We baked them…

…and they  turned out kind of amazing. Don’t worry, our Lego guy survived. However this is a lot of cookie and I’m not sure if I will.