Cookie Cake – Sugar Spun Run
Topped with sprinkles and a wealthy chocolate frosting, my chocolate chip cookie cake makes an incredible 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 delicate 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 principle attraction at a celebration!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Good for individuals who don’t take pleasure in basic muffins. And with loads of sprinkles, nobody will miss the standard 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 delicate, chewy, middle with a barely crisped edge. Everybody will get the most effective elements!
Ingredient Overview
This recipe isn’t too totally different out of your common chocolate chip cookie recipe, so the elements are fairly related.
- Egg + egg yolk. As a substitute of two complete 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 an alternative be completely tender and chewy. Should you don’t wish to toss your egg white, reserve it to make some candied walnuts.
- Cornstarch. This encourages a thick, delicate, and tender chocolate chip cookie cake. Cornstarch is one in every of my favourite “secret” elements in cookies (you’ve most likely seen it earlier than in my “worst” chocolate chip cookies and Neapolitan cookies), somewhat bit helps make for a superbly delicate consequence.
- Cocoa powder. This ingredient is for the frosting slightly than the cake layer itself. I sometimes keep on with pure cocoa powder. Dutch course of will work too, however the coloration will probably be darker and the flavour will probably be deeper.
- Chocolate chips. I at all times favor semisweet chips (they lend a pleasant steadiness 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 happy to make use of vacation sprinkles (pink, white, and blue can be cute for July 4th!) or your personal mix. I stir them into the batter and save a couple of to sprinkle on prime of the frosting, too.
How one can 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 steadily stir them into the moist elements. Including the dry elements abruptly could make combining the dough troublesome, so it’s essential to do that steadily!
- 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 appears to be like prettier this fashion!
- Press and clean the cookie dough into your pan. I exploit the again of a spoon to do that. The dough will probably be stiff! Should you actually wish to get a reasonably prime, you may press a chunk of wax paper in opposition to the floor of the dough and use your fingers to press/clean the dough into the pan.
- Bake till the sides are beginning to flip golden brown and let cool fully earlier than frosting.
Make the Frosting & Adorn
- Beat the butter till clean, then steadily 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 verify there aren’t any dry pockets hiding.
- Add milk as wanted till you attain your required consistency.
- Pipe the frosting across the prime of your cake, prime with sprinkles, and revel in!
SAM’S TIP: As exhausting as it’s to attend, you have to 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 ok to take a seat at room temperature (preserve it in an hermetic container!) and I feel it’s greatest 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 will probably 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 will probably be a bit longer and your chocolate chip cookie cake will probably be thicker and softer. Inversely, when you use a bigger pan, then you should have a shorter bake time and a thinner cake. Should you use a forged iron pan (an incredible alternative for making this recipe’s cousin: the pizookie), the cake will probably 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 exhausting for me to decide on.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
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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 gentle and fluffy.
¾ cup (170 g) unsalted butter, ¾ cup (150 g) gentle 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 clean 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 edges 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 remains to be too stiff add extra as wanted till you could have a clean 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 method.
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Slice and revel in!
Notes
Pan
A 9″ springform pan could also be used as an alternative, 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 of an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will differ primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking methodology, portion sizes, and extra.
This recipe was initially printed September of 2017. I’ve up to date the submit with new pictures and a brand new video and added extra useful tricks to the submit, however the recipe stays the identical!
