A soft, buttery chocolate chip cookie cake, stuffed full of sprinkles and topped off with rich chocolate frosting. This serves as a great alternative to traditional birthday cake!
Hi everyone, Sam here from Sugar Spun Run, and I’m excited to share one of my new favorite dessert recipes with you today: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake! Can you think of a better dessert than a giant, soft chocolate chip cookie, filled with sprinkles and topped off with chocolate frosting?
I can’t (but I’m also admittedly a bit of a chocolate chip cookie addict), and this cookie cake trumps even the best cookie recipe because there’s no scooping, no chilling, rolling, or slicing. Just mix up the ingredients and spread them into a pan, slide it into the oven and you’re done! Well, minus the frosting.
Can I make this in a 9 inch pan?
I made this cookie cake in a 10″ springform pan, but if you have a deep 10″ cake pan that would work great, too. You can also get away with using a 9″, but you’ll need to bake it a bit longer and the cookie cake will be a bit thicker (not a bad thing!).
The cookie will bake up with a soft, chewy, chocolaty center and a slightly crisped edge, so no matter which kind of cookie connoisseur you are (chewy or crispy), you’ll find something to love here.
I have a little bit of an obsession with using sprinkles in my recipes (like my Funfetti cake — sprinkles overload!), so of course I added a handful of bright, colorful sprinkles to this chocolate chip cookie cake. You can absolutely skip them if you’d like, but why would you want to!?
Because no cake is complete without at least a little bit of frosting, I topped this one off with a rim of chocolate buttercream that’s sweet but not too sweet and accents the cookie cake perfectly. I only did one ring of frosting for these photos, but the recipe makes enough that you can do two.
When I served this cake to my family, I added extra frosting to the slices of the chocolate lovers in my family (which is just about everyone).
Enjoy! If you like this recipe you may also like Chocolate Chip Cookie Shots and Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies.
Watch the video below where we will walk you through every step of the recipe with a video demonstration.
Baked perfectly. I made a 6″ and a 4″.
I cut the 4″ into 8 wedges that I stuck into 8 pieces of chocolate birthday cake super yummy !
Made this today I had a 6″ pan and a 4″ baked perfectly ! I ended up cutting the 4″ cookie into 8 triangle wedges and stuck the tips into 8 slices of chocolate birthday cake – so cute and so yummy !
Made this yesterday. It turned out beautifully and tastes terrific! Will definitely make it again.
This cookie cake tasted delicious! I just needed to bake it 7 more minutes, and it could have baked even longer since it was still underdone.
I like the chocolate icing idea but what would we need to do if we wanted to color the icing and not have it chocolate? Do we just leave the cocoa out?
Pretty much!
My cookie cake is in the oven right now. But the dough was super sticky. I put the 2 cups of flour. Do you have any ideas as to why it wasn’t firm like yours? Should I add more flour next time so it can look like your dough? Mine was super stick. I couldn’t even touch it because it would just stick to my fingers. Help please.
Yes, the differences probably comes from how you measure your flour.
Can I use dark brown sugar or put an egg wash on the top so the cookie has a little more color?
Yes, should work.
Hi Rachel. Is the butter for the dough unsalted? I ask because the butter for the icing is salted and I just want to be sure.
yes.
Love the chocolate chip cookie cake.
Can I make this for a9by 13 pan
It will be a bit thin