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This Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake is moist, chewy and super easy to make! You can decorate and customize this cookie cake for a birthday or other special occasion!
For more great cookie cakes, check out my Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer Cake, Reeses Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake or Funfetti Cake Batter Cookie Cake
I feel like Chocolate Chip Cookie Cakes are part of the core of my childhood. We always had them in my family and we loved them – still do! I knew – without any doubt – that weād always have a cookie cake for my dadās birthday. Itās still his cake of choice these days. Heās not really a big cake guy, but he loves cookies. And the frosting? Forget about it. Not his thing. So my younger brother and I would always stand by and divide his frosting between our slices of cookie. For us, the more frosting, the better!
As I got older, I realized that there were quite a lot of people that grew up not eating cookie cakes. I introduced a whole lot of great people to a whole new world. Bring on the cookie cakes!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cakes even make appearances at a lot of our football tailgates. And shoot, the twins even had cookie cakes for their 1st birthday smash cakes! So yea, a cookie cake family for sure.
When it comes to cookie cakes, they are so perfect for just about anything. They’re easy to make, easy to decorate, easy to take with you somewhere and who doesnāt love a good cookie?!
To make this cookie cake, youāll basically make cookie dough and bake it in a cake pan. Simple!
So to get started, youāll cream the butter and sugars together for about three to four minutes, until itās light and fluffy. This cookie cake used a mix of both white and brown sugar for a deeper flavor.
To that mixture youāll add an egg and some vanilla extract.
Finally, youāll add your dry ingredients. Here weāre using a combination of flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt. The cornstarch tenderizes the cookie a bit and the baking soda is just about always my preferred leavener for a cookie. It just creates a chewier texture that I love.
Of course it wouldnāt be complete without the chocolate chips, so mix some of those in there too. Bake the cookie cake for roughly 20 minutes. Itāll be lightly golden around the edges and set in the center. Although it might not look totally done, you donāt want to overcook it. Itāll continue cooking and firming up as it cools. As long as the top of the cookie has lost itās glossy look, it should be done.
When the cookie cake is done baking, youāll want to let it cool COMPLETELY in the pan. Removing it from the pan before then will result in a cookie that falls apart. But once itās cool, itāll be nice and firm and you can flip it out of the pan and quickly flip it back onto a serving platter or cardboard circle.
Thereās really very little you need to do for a cookie cake, unless you want to make it fancy. You can use the chocolate buttercream I used, or swap it out for my Vanilla Buttercream. And of course, choose your favorite sprinkles.
You could even get a little crazy and make a 9×13 cookie cake and pipe decorations on it. I did something similar with my Flag Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake and Christmas Tree Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake and they were super fun.
However you decorate your cookie or whatever your celebration is, this cookie cake is sure to be a hit and better than any store-bought version. Itās thick, soft, chewy and full of tasty chocolate chips. As a long time fan of Chocolate Chip Cookie Cakes, I will tell you that this oneās the best!
More Great Cookie Cake Recipes To Love
Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer Cake
Funfetti Cake Batter Cookie Cake
Samoa Cookie Cake
Reeses Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Triple Chocolate Cookie Cake
Oreo Cookie Cake
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bottomed Cheesecake
Recipe originally posted February 2013. Updated October 2019.
Print- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 18 minutes
- Total Time: 48 minutes
- Yield: 8-10 slices
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake is moist, chewy and super easy to make! You can decorate and customize this cookie cake for a birthday or other special occasion!
Ingredients
COOKIE CAKE
- 3/4 cup (168g) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup (108g) loosely packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup (52g) sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups (260g) all purpose flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cups (211g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM
- 1/4 cup (56g) salted butter
- 1/4 cup (48g) shortening
- 1 3/4 cups (201g) powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup (29g) natural unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1–2 tbsp water
Instructions
COOKIE CAKE:
CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM:
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Slice
- Calories: 590
- Sugar: 51.3 g
- Sodium: 256.1 mg
- Fat: 32.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 73.4 g
- Protein: 5.4 g
- Cholesterol: 67.4 mg
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Enjoy!
What if I would to make it in a sheet pan? Same baking time?
Depends on the size of the pan and whether you increase the amount of the recipe or not. It probably would need a little longer to bake.
Iāve been making this for years and it is THE BEST cookie cake ever! I always get requests for it and people always rave about it! Turns out perfect everytime! Thank you so much!
I’m so glad it’s a hit!
I just want to say this is the best cookie cake recipe ever. I’ve shared it with others and their opinions were the same. This was so good, I started making giant 5.5″ cookies and everyone absolutely LOVES them. They are puffy, soft and my new go-to for Crumbl sized cookies!
Awesome! So glad it’s been a hit!
What size pan and how long did you cook
Love it !!! I make this recipe so much š this my favorite cookie cake best one out there way better than store bought thankyou š God bless you always
★★★★★
Thank you! Iām so glad you enjoy it!
Is there anything that I can substitute for the shortening in the frosting recipe?
Absolutely. Just substitute it with additional butter in the same amount.