Topped with sprinkles and a wealthy chocolate frosting, my chocolate chip cookie cake makes an amazing birthday cake substitute. It’s fast and simple to make however so beautiful and celebratory with its chocolate frosting and colourful sprinkles! Recipe features a how-to video!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
In contrast to most of my cake recipes, this isn’t a mushy and fluffy slice of heaven. As a substitute, my cookie cake is sort of actually an enormous, thick, soft-baked chocolate chip cookie, full with chocolate buttercream. The middle is chewy, buttery, and studded with chocolate chips. It’s all the most effective issues we love about cookies, however spectacular sufficient to be the primary attraction at a celebration!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Excellent for individuals who don’t take pleasure in traditional muffins. And with loads of sprinkles, nobody will miss the normal birthday cake!
- No chilling, scooping, or rolling! Merely make the dough and unfold it into your pan. It’s simply as simple as my chocolate chip cooke bars!
- Every slice has a mushy, chewy, heart with a barely crisped edge. Everybody will get the most effective elements!
Ingredient Overview
This recipe isn’t too completely different out of your common chocolate chip cookie recipe, so the elements are fairly comparable.
- Egg + egg yolk. As a substitute of two entire eggs, I exploit one egg and and one egg yolk. Discarding that additional egg white means our cookie cake received’t be cakey, however will as a substitute be completely tender and chewy. Should you don’t need to toss your egg white, reserve it to make some candied walnuts.
- Cornstarch. This encourages a thick, mushy, and tender chocolate chip cookie cake. Cornstarch is one in every of my favourite “secret” elements in cookies (you’ve in all probability seen it earlier than in my “worst” chocolate chip cookies and Neapolitan cookies), just a little bit helps make for a superbly mushy end result.
- Cocoa powder. This ingredient is for the frosting fairly than the cake layer itself. I sometimes follow pure cocoa powder. Dutch course of will work too, however the colour can be darker and the flavour can be deeper.
- Chocolate chips. I at all times favor semisweet chips (they lend a pleasant stability to issues) however when you like milk chocolate, darkish chocolate, and even white chocolate, any of those will work!
- Sprinkles. Have enjoyable with these! Be at liberty to make use of vacation sprinkles (pink, white, and blue can be cute for July 4th!) or your individual mix. I stir them into the batter and save a couple of to sprinkle on high of the frosting, too.
Tips on how to Make a Cookie Cake
- Cream the butter and sugars till mixed and creamy.
- Stir within the eggs and vanilla, then set this apart.
- Whisk the dry elements collectively in a separate bowl, then progressively stir them into the moist elements. Including the dry elements abruptly could make combining the dough tough, so it’s necessary to do that progressively!
- Fold in your chocolate chips and sprinkles. I like to order a couple of chocolate chips for urgent into the highest of the cake after I’ve unfold it into the pan–it simply seems to be prettier this manner!
- Press and easy the cookie dough into your pan. I exploit the again of a spoon to do that. The dough can be stiff! Should you actually need to get a fairly high, you may press a chunk of wax paper in opposition to the floor of the dough and use your palms to press/easy the dough into the pan.
- Bake till the perimeters are beginning to flip golden brown and let cool fully earlier than frosting.
Make the Frosting & Embellish
- Beat the butter till easy, then progressively stir within the sugar till mixed.
- Add the cocoa powder and vanilla and stir till integrated. Scrape the underside and sides of the bowl to ensure there aren’t any dry pockets hiding.
- Add milk as wanted till you attain your required consistency.
- Pipe the frosting across the high of your cake, high with sprinkles, and luxuriate in!
SAM’S TIP: As onerous as it’s to attend, you should let the cake cool fully earlier than including your frosting. If it’s nonetheless heat, the frosting will simply soften.
FAQs
The cookie cake itself is okay to take a seat at room temperature (preserve it in an hermetic container!) and I feel it’s finest served at room temperature, however whether or not or to not refrigerate finally is dependent upon the frosting you utilize. With the frosting I exploit right here, this cake can sit out at room temperature for a couple of days. In case your frosting does require refrigeration, know that the cookie cake can be extra dense and crumbly when served from the fridge and ensure to make use of an hermetic container to retailer it.
Sure! A deep 10″ cake pan, 9″ springform, 10″ forged iron skillet, or tart pan will work. Simply know that when you use a smaller pan your bake time can be a bit longer and your chocolate chip cookie cake can be thicker and softer. Inversely, when you use a bigger pan, then you’ll have a shorter bake time and a thinner cake. Should you use a forged iron pan (an amazing selection for making this recipe’s cousin: the pizookie), the cake will seemingly take much less time to bake.
Are you a cookie individual or a cake individual? At this level, I really feel prefer it’s simply attending to be too onerous for me to decide on.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Servings: 10 slices
Energy: 606kcal
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Directions
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Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and put together a ten″ spherical pan by lining the underside with parchment paper or by calmly greasing. Put aside.
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Mix softened butter and sugars in a big bowl and use an electrical mixer to beat effectively till mild and fluffy.
¾ cup (170 g) unsalted butter, ¾ cup (150 g) mild or darkish brown sugar, ⅔ cup (135 g) sugar
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Add egg, egg yolk, and vanilla extract and stir effectively.
1 egg + 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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In a separate, medium-sized bowl, whisk collectively flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt.
2 cups (250 g) all-purpose, 1 ½ teaspoon corn starch, ½ teaspoon baking powder, ¾ teaspoon salt
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Step by step stir dry elements into moist till fully mixed. Stir in chocolate chips and sprinkles.
1 cup (170 g) semisweet chocolate chips, 2 Tablespoons sprinkles
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Unfold batter evenly into ready pan. Bake on 350F (175C) for half-hour or till edges simply start to show golden brown.
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Put together chocolate frosting whereas the cookie cake cools.
Chocolate Frosting
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Beat butter with an electrical mixer till easy and creamy.
½ cup (113 g) 1 stick salted butter, softened to room temperature
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Step by step add sugar till fully mixed
1 ½ cups (188 g) powdered sugar
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Stir in cocoa powder after which vanilla extract. Pause to scrape down the perimeters of the bowl with a spatula.
¼ cup (25 g) cocoa powder, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
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Add milk (begin with only a splash, if consistency continues to be too stiff add extra as wanted till you might have a easy creamy consistency) and beat effectively
1-2 Tablespoons milk
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Pipe icing across the rim of your cooled cookie cake — I used a piping bag fitted with a Wilton 2D tip, however in a pinch you may merely switch your frosting to a ziploc bag, snip off a small nook, and pipe that manner.
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Slice and luxuriate in!
Notes
Pan
A 9″ springform pan could also be used as a substitute, cake might want to bake roughly 35 minutes.
Storing
Retailer lined at room temperature for as much as 3 days.
Diet
Serving: 1slice | Energy: 606kcal | Carbohydrates: 80g | Protein: 5g | Fats: 31g | Saturated Fats: 19g | Ldl cholesterol: 79mg | Sodium: 392mg | Potassium: 214mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 56g | Vitamin A: 742IU | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 3mg
Dietary info is predicated on third-party calculations and ought to be thought-about an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will range primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking technique, portion sizes, and extra.
This recipe was initially revealed September of 2017. I’ve up to date the publish with new photographs and a brand new video and added extra useful tricks to the publish, however the recipe stays the identical!
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