How To Make Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake – Best Recipe Ever!
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This chocolate chip cookie cake is basically a giant chocolate chip cookie in a cake form. The texture is perfectly cookie-like – soft, chewy and delicious, with chocolate chips throughout! It literally melts in your mouth, with your favorite chocolate chips on your tongue.
This easy foolproof recipe makes the best chocolate chip cookie cake ever! The resulting cookie cake is better than any cookie cakes I ever tried – including those from a fancy bakery!
Chocolate chip cookie cake is very easy to make – in fact, it’s much quicker and easier than making the individual cookies, as there is no dough to roll or to drop, as all the dough is going into one big round pan. All you need to do is mix the ingredients in a bowl, then pour the dough into a baking dish and bake it in the oven – it’s that easy, that’s why this chocolate chip cookie cake recipe is perfect for beginners.
This recipe makes a 9-inch round cookie cake that’s about 1 inch tall – that would be a one huge cookie! Here’s the side view of this cookie cake, giving you an idea of the height:
Chocolate chip cookie cake is always a hit at the kids’ birthday parties! Children are fascinated with the idea of a giant cookie in the form of cake, not to mention that they love the chocolate chip cookie taste. A homemade cookie cake is quite a memorable party dessert – it’s unique, yet crowd pleasing – at the end, there is never a crumb left :)
I personally don’t frost the cookie cake, as I want the “cookie” factor to shine through. Covering up this cake with frosting will make it look just like an ordinary cake, defeating the whole purpose of the cookie cake which is to look and taste like a cookie. If you do want to add frosting, a good way to frost the cookie cake is to only put the frosting on the sides around the circumference, making swirly designs with the frosting piping bag as you go. This way, the middle of the cake will still be uncovered, so everyone can see the cookie top with the chocolate chips!
And see all those cute chocolate chips on top? I have a secret of keeping them from sinking into the cookie dough. If you simply mix the chocolate chips into the dough, they’ll be hiding inside – which won’t affect the taste, but won’t make as good of a presentation. What I do is this – I mix most chocolate chips into the dough, but save a handful of them, and sprinkle this last handful of chocolate chips on top after I put the dough into the baking dish. Voila – those chocolate chips stay put on the top!
Best Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup 1 1/2 sticks butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Spray a non-stick 9-inch round baking dish with a non-stick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar with the mixer for several minutes until creamy.
- Add the eggs and vanilla, and beat with a mixer for another minute.
- In another bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, and mix with the mixer on low speed until combined. (The dough will be thick and sticky, and if it gets stuck in your mixer blade just unplug the mixer and take out the dough from the mixing blade with a spoon.)
- Add 1 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and mix for 10 seconds or until evenly combined.
- Put the dough into the baking dish and spread it in an even layer, smoothing the top of the dough with a back of a spoon.
- Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup of chocolate chips over the top of the cookie cake.
- Put the cookie cake in the oven on the middle rack and bake for 25 minutes.
This looks like a giant chocolate chip cookies! I love that dense and moist texture.
A giant chocolate chip cookie it is! What can be better than a cookie? A GIANT cookie! ?
Oh my gosh, I NEED to make this! Can you believe I’ve never made or even tried one? I can hardly call myself a foodie anymore until I do ;) It sounds and looks amazing! Love that picture of the centre – it looks wonderully moist and so packed with gooey chocolate chips! YUM. Pinning this to make!
You are going to love it! This recipe is so easy and yummy, I hope you try it soon! ?
I think you’ve absolutely nailed it here Melanie!
I’m all up for quick recipes. And this says EXACTLY that to me. And so much less fuss than making tons of individual cookies!
Brilliant.
Thanks, Neil! You are right, making one giant cookie is so much easier than making lots of individual cookies!
Delicious cookie cake Melanie! Perfect for a children’s birthday party! I like the simplicity of not frosting it. Lets us see all those yummy chips!!!!
Kids love this cake! Chocolate chip cookie cakes from the bakery are popular for children’s birthday parties where I live, but making it yourself is so much cheaper than a bakery and so much more special too!
I like cookies to be thick and chewy, so cookie cakes are definitely the way to go! This looks delicious!
Yes, think and chewy is how I like it too, and the texture of this cookie cake is exactly that!
A 1-inch tall huge chocolate chip cookie? I can deal with that lol, please send a slice over.
A cookie is never too big ?
I love how the chocolate chips did not melt away on top :)
Yes, for some reason they stay like this when they are sprinkled on top before baking! They just wanted me to be able to take a good picture ?
I so agree – cookie cakes are much better without the frosting. I love how easy-peasy this is!
Yes, it’s easier without the frosting and looks better too – you can see the chocolate chips! If it was fully covered in frosting, it would look like a generic cake.
Chocolate chip cookie in a giant form? Yep, this is definitely for me!
Yum, let’s split it ?
OMG! I don’t even want to share this giant cookie. Just give me a fork and a giant scoop of vanilla ice cream.
I was OBSESSED with cookie cakes growing up! And for whatever reason haven’t had one in years! This looks so so good!
Oh my goodness taking my two favorite things (cookies and cake!!) and merging them together!?! This looks soooo good, I want to eat this right now!
This would make the best dinner party dessert or even a kid’s party item! :D
Love the idea! Looks amazing! Will try it soon!
So here’s my foodie confession of the day: I suck at baking chocolate chip cookies. I have no idea why. They just never quite turn out the way I’d like them too and this amazing looking cookie cake looks like the answer to my prayers! I can practically taste all of it’s chocolatey cookie-ness. :-)
My kids would love you for this. It looks amazing!
This is my chocolate-chip-cookie-loving daughter’s dream come true – I need to pin this for her birthday next December so I don’t forget!
Cookie cake has always been one of my favorite desserts! This looks so delicious and I love all the extra chocolate chips on top too :)
What time is the party?!?! I want some of this cookie cake!
Oh my good lordy!! I can’t even with this recipe! I would bake this, top it with ice cream, hot fudge sauce and proceed to eat the whole thing all by myself (I might save a little piece for breakfast the next day). I think I’ll make this next time Hubby’s away on a business trip. Yay me!! Seriously, thanks for sharing this recipe :)
Delicious … I love it all !!
Thank you.
I’ve made it and it was delicious. Going to make it again to bring down to friends dinner on Saturday.
Love the idea of a cookie cake without frosting perfect as is!
Perfect for kids’ parties! Easy and delicious!