Description
Delicious chocolate chip cookie cake blends classic cookie flavors with cake-like texture. Homemade dessert offers rich chocolate chips and buttery sweetness you’ll savor with each delightful slice.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 large eggs
- 2 ½ cups (315 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups (255 g) semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup (230 g or 2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup (220 g) light brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup (100 g) granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup (85 g) mini chocolate chips (optional)
- ½ cup (115 g or 1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups (240 g) powdered sugar
- ¼ cup (25 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tbsps heavy cream (or milk)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preparation: Cream softened butter with brown and granulated sugars until light and fluffy, mixing vigorously for two minutes to create a smooth base.
- Wet Ingredients: Blend eggs and vanilla extract thoroughly into the butter-sugar mixture, ensuring a homogeneous consistency that promotes even flavor distribution.
- Dry Mixture: Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together, eliminating potential lumps and preparing for seamless integration with wet ingredients.
- Dough Formation: Fold dry ingredients into wet mixture with minimal stirring, gently incorporating chocolate chips to maintain a tender dough texture and ensure even chocolate distribution.
- Pan Preparation: Transfer dough to a 9-inch cake pan, spreading uniformly with a spatula and optionally sprinkling additional mini chocolate chips across the surface for enhanced visual appeal.
- Baking Process: Place pan in a preheated 350°F oven, baking for 22-26 minutes until edges turn golden-brown and the center sets completely.
- Cooling Stage: Allow cookie cake to rest in the pan for ten minutes, then carefully transfer to a wire rack for complete cooling.
- Frosting Creation: Whip butter until smooth, gradually incorporating powdered sugar and cocoa powder at low speed to create a light, fluffy chocolate frosting.
- Final Touches: Introduce heavy cream and vanilla extract to the frosting, beating until achieving a perfect piping consistency, then elegantly decorate the cooled cookie cake’s edges.
Notes
- Butter Temperature Matters: Use room temperature butter for smoother creaming, ensuring a light and fluffy cookie cake texture.
- Minimal Mixing Magic: Stir dry ingredients into wet mixture gently to prevent gluten development, keeping the cake tender and soft.
- Chocolate Chip Distribution: Fold chocolate chips carefully to prevent sinking, ensuring even chocolate in every delightful bite.
- Cooling Crucial Step: Allow the cookie cake to cool completely in the pan before transferring, preventing potential crumbling and maintaining structural integrity.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 13
- Calories: 512
- Sugar: 39 g
- Sodium: 165 mg
- Fat: 25 g
- Saturated Fat: 15 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 64 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 6 g
- Cholesterol: 67 mg