What’s better than a flavorful chocolate cupcake filled with cookie dough frosting and crunchy chocolate chip cookie jammed inside? Whether you’re barbecuing this weekend or glued to the World Cup matches, these chocolate cookie dough crunch cupcakes have go to be on the menu!
Crunchy cookies + fluffy chocolate cupcakes + fudgy cookie dough are a texture sensation! {tweet this!}
The light and rich chocolate cupcake, the only chocolate cupcake recipe you’ll ever need, made from the top-notch Barefoot Contessa cookbook is the perfect vehicle for buttery chocolate chip cookie dough frosting and a crunchy chocolate chip cookie. Yes, choose crunchy. Normally I’m all for soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies, but for the maximum chocolate cookie dough crunch cupcake texture experience, definitely go for crunchy.
Make it easy on yourself: stuff these homemade chocolate cupcakes with store-bought Chips Ahoy cookies.
This homemade frosting is in a class all it’s own. It’s eggless cookie dough that we pretend is frosting. You with me?
Some reviews about this cookie dough frosting from TidyMom claimed it was gritty, thick, and hard to pipe. People, it’s COOKIE DOUGH frosting. It’s dense, sandy (from the brown sugar), and DELISH!
Sure, it’s not easy to pipe into perfect ribbons (though it CAN be done!) and it doesn’t have the airy, creamy mouthfeel of Swiss meringue buttercream frosting because it’s cookie dough. I used the frosting as a filling layer inside the cupcakes rather than on top, so I halved the recipe. If you want to stuff the cuppies AND frost the tops too, be sure to double the frosting recipe below.
Alright, now that you know what you’re getting into, let’s bake, shall we?!
- Cupcakes
- ¾ cup (1½ sticks)butter, at room temperature
- ⅔ cup sugar
- ⅔ cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
- ½ cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons brewed coffee
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Cookie Dough Frosting
- 1½ (3/4 cup) sticks butter, at room temperature
- 6 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
- 1¾ cups confectioners’ sugar
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- pinch salt
- 4 teaspoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 30 Chocolate chip cookies
- Start the cupcakes by preheating oven to 350F. Line a cupcake pan with 30 muffin cups.
- In a medium bowl combine vanilla, buttermilk, sour cream, and coffee. Set aside.
- In another bowl sift flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl cream butter and both sugars until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time until combined. Scrape bowl.
- On low speed add buttermilk mixture in 3 parts, alternating with flour. Beat only until combined. Distribute among muffin cups, filling each about ⅔ full. I use this scoop to make it easier. You may or may not use all the muffin cups.
- Bake 20-25 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove cupcakes from pan to a cooling rack and start the frosting.
- Cookie dough frosting is made by beating brown sugar and butter for about 2 minutes until fluffy.
- Add confectioners' sugar and beat to combine. On medium speed add flour and salt until smooth and then pour in milk and vanilla extract. Beat until combined.
- Assemble cupcakes by slicing the top ⅓ off each cupcake horizontally. Pipe or spoon a dollop of frosting onto the bottom half of the cupcake and press a cookie into the frosting. Finish by topping the cupcake and adding more frosting on top, if desired.
So how’s that for a new spin on cookie dough?! What’s your favorite way to eat cookie dough? A couple of weeks ago my friend brought a big bowl of cookie dough to a mom group meeting. She brought spoons. And cups.
That beautiful afternoon, late red sun gleaming as we watched our kids hanging upside down from the red jungle gym and scooping out plentiful globs of cookie dough into our cups was my first experience eating cookie dough with a spoon when I wasn’t dusted in flour and halfway through mixing a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Brand new territory. Have you been there? Share your most bizarre cookie dough experience in the comments below.
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I love chocolate chip cookie dough anything. These look delicious!
Cookie dough’s the best, right?! Remember about 10 years ago when they came out with cookie dough ice cream, what a novelty it was? Those people were geniuses and it’s even better than those cookie dough recipes never stopped rolling in! Thank you so much for visiting me this weekend.
I am swooning over the new design! It is so fun and definitely highlights all your blog’s best features! Like these cupcakes … oh.my.goodness these cupcakes are out of this world! I love the different layers and especially the cookie dough frosting. Amazing!
Aw, thanks Mary Frances. I’d been toying with ways to change up the look of the Foodie theme without any in-depth coding knowledge and figured out that switching up the fonts was an easy way to set it apart (at least a little bit) from the crowd. Of course, I can’t resist a chocolate cupcake, so you’d better believe I’ve got about a bazillion (yes, definitely a word, wink, wink!) variations to share. Thank you for stopping by this weekend!
Jelli these cupcakes look delicious and I love how playful they are, plus who doesn’t love a good excuse to eat a cookie!
Who needs an excuse for a cookie, right? I liked these cookies for the quirky factor of putting the frosting inside rather than on top- and to be honest, I didn’t think it looked very good piped anyway. Granted, Cheryl at TidyMom did a great job with it, but for time’s sake and to be different, I really liked it stuffed inside. Thank you so much for stopping by, Emily.
Oh my goodness Jelli! These look and sound simply DI-VINE!!!
How do you do this? How do you instantly make me crave something!?!
Thanks for sharing. Wishing you a lovely week.
xoxo
Jennifer, your comments always make me giggle. Glad the cuppies look tempting- they really are good! In fact, I could eat these chocolate cupcakes plain, the recipe is just that good. Hope you give ’em a try!
Visiting from the Create & Share Link Party. Had to see how you could take all my favorite things to eat and combine them into this delicious-looking masterpiece. YUM!
Thank you for stopping by, Mandee! Hope you give these cupcakes a whirl soon. They’re great to take to parties because you don’t have to worry about the frosting sliding off the tops. Have a great week.
Ummmmm…. wow! These look amazing, lady! 🙂 Pinned & sharing!
Thank you for sharing, Carrie and thank you for the compliments too. You know how hard it is to set up a food photo shoot, so I really get excited when the pics get some praise. Have a great weekend.
i really want that right now!
Hi Jelli!
Just wanted to let you know that I’m featuring these AMAZING cupcakes (seriously, I need these in my mouth, now) for this week’s Create & Share DIY and Recipe Party! Woo!
I hope you’ll stop by again this week and link up some more awesome stuff!
<3
Gosh, thanks, Karly! So excited you liked the cuppies. I love how easy they are to put together. I mean, we don’t always have time to pipe gorgeous swirls on top of cuppies, right? Thanks so much for the feature love.