Chocolate cupcakes topped with rich chocolate chip cookie dough frosting….my new favorite thing!
I love cookie dough. When I was a little girl we always got little nibbles of it when mom was baking. Now, of course, we know that those raw eggs could kill us…but I think that cookie dough might be worth that risk!!
The best part of this recipe is that the frosting truly tastes like cookie dough (a light creamy cookie dough) and there are NO eggs in it. So you could just eat it straight out of the bowl and forget the cupcakes….not that I would do that….ever….well…maybe just a little….
I made my cupcakes into minis- simply because I wanted to put a “scoop” of frosting on top and a full-size scoop would be a HUGE amount of frosting…I don’t have a problem with that, but I think most people might 😉
INGREDIENTS:
- One boxed chocolate cake mix (plus water, oil and eggs to make according to box)
***OR use your favorite cupcake recipe. This is really all about the frosting– so do your favorite thing with the cupcake recipe/ flavor***
- 2 sticks (8 oz.) unsalted butter(softened)
- 2 sticks (8 oz.) salted butter(softened)
- 2 c. powered sugar
- 1 c. brown sugar (packed)
- 3 T. vanilla
- 1/3c. flour
- 1 12 oz bag of mini chocolate chips.
DIRECTIONS:
- Make cake mix (or your favorite cake recipe) and divide into mini cupcake liners in a mini cupcake tin. (makes about 48 mini cupcakes)
- Bake according to box/recipe (mini cupcakes take less time, so adjust accordingly!)
- Cool cupcakes completely.
- Place all frosting ingredients except mini chips into a large mixing bowl and beat with mixer on low until combined and then high until light and fluffy.
- Add mini chips (keep about 1/4 of a cup aside to sprinkle on top) and beat on low until fully combined.
- Frost cupcakes. You can use a knife to just spread it on or use a small or medium Cookie Scoop
to make your cupcakes look like mine do.
- Sprinkle remaining chips on top and gobble these cupcakes up!!!
My thoughts: These are dangerous cupcakes for me. I had to get them out of my house FAST. I seriously wanted to eat them all. Ah….cookie dough….sigh. Enjoy these so much!!!! ~r
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Great idea and those cupcakes look delicious, who doesn’t love cookie dough!
Thanks- and yes…who doesn’t love cookie dough?? It should be a food group 😉
I’ll vote for that!!
I know what I’ll be baking later today, these look so tasty!!
Hope you love them!!!
3t.of vanilla is teaspoon, correct?
And is the flour all purpose? Lol
Yes- all-purpose- lol! I should be more specific I guess!! 🙂 Have fun baking!
Sorry im not a experienced baker lol I love how simple and direct this recipe is! My daughter & I will be trying this tomorrow! Thanks!
I’m excited to hear how it turns out for you– have a fun day with your daughter!! 🙂
Yes, a teaspoon 🙂
genius! I’d go with the mini cakes too, mouthfuls! these look soooooo good xxx
Mmmm….yes- the perfect size…its a good blend of cake and frosting!
Gorgeous cupcakes! And covered in cookie dough frosting – oh man this is a dream come true 😀
I’m glad so many other people feel like I do about cookie dough 😉
That mound of cookie dough on top is making me drool – yummy!
Drool-worthy 🙂 Love it!
That cooke dough frosting looks amazing! I’d be happy with just that and forget about the cupcake too!
You’d save yourself the time of making the cupcakes if you just made the frosting!! Honestly…I think it stands alone- lol! 🙂
What a great idea! These look like they’d taste dangerously good…will have to try! 🙂
Thank you- I really hope you get a chance to try them! Speaking from personal experience: don’t make them when you are dieting…they are so hard to stop eating…one is NOT enough…!
sounds delicious ready to make some
Thank you! Enjoy!!
Wow yum, that frosting looks ridiculously good!
Thank you!
Wow, love the cookie dough on a cupcake 🙂
Yummy!!
These would be dangerous… already have a real issue with the amount of dough that I eat when making cookies (at least this takes out the raw egg factor!). I’m going to have to investigate this cookie scoop, I don’t have one and I think I need one.
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I WANT TO GO TO THERE.
Thank you!!!!!
Can’t wait to try these this wknd! Did you use light brown sugar or dark brown?
I used light- thats what I use in my cookies I bake- but I’m sure dark would be fine too.
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Saw these on dessertstalking! OMG-yum!!!
Thank you– isn’t dessert stalking so fun?? I love it!
Excited about this post! Cookie dough is one of my all time favourite things.
me too….me too!!!
I am making these now and the dough is soooooo good!! Not doing my diet any good lol So easy to make! I am getting addicted to your blog! xx
I looooooove this frosting. I can’t even look at the pictures on this post because I want them so badly every time I do- lol! Sorry about your diet– but I understand COMPLETELY! 🙂
I have a really dumb question about your abbreviation. Is the T a teaspoon?
That’s not dumb at all The T is a tablespoon and t is a teaspoon. It’s just the way our family always abbreviated and I’m having a hard time breaking myself of it!!!
Thank you very much for the reply. I just wasn’t sure and had not seen it that way. Have a great day.
Your welcome- hope your day is great too!!!
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The 2 sticks of butter in the frosting recipe is listed twice…I’m assuming it is really only 2 sticks, NOT 4, correct?
My family always used T and t for Tblsps and tsps too. I actually thought it was a universal thing! Makes sense and saves space.
Thanks for sharing!!
Debbi
Hi Debbi- it is 2 sticks of salted butter and 2 sticks of unsalted. It makes a big batch of frosting – enough to put a scoop on 48 mini cupcakes.
We always used the T and t abbreviations, but it gets confusing for my international readers (who already need to convert to metric!) So I am gradually changing over to using the full words for things like cup, tablespoon and teaspoon. It’s a little extra time for me, but if it saves confusion and questions it’s worth it!!!
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