Chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes

Last week I was in the mood to reminisce so I looked through my old baking photos, the ones I took before I started blogging in 2010. I love looking through old photos, it helps you remember the little things you often forget – like this amazing cookie dough cheesecake I made in 2009. I wish I started blogging earlier because I don’t remember where I got this recipe and have no idea where I’d saved it. I just remembered it tasted heavenly. No promises, but I will probably end up making it again once I remember where I got the recipe or find a new one I like.

I guess this recipe is some kind of commemoration to my cookie dough cheesecake. These cookie dough cupcakes taste amazing. So moist! If you are a fan of cookie dough or cookie dough ice cream,  you will love these. There are two kinds of cookie dough cupcakes out there. There are ones where you bake the cupcake with the cookie dough and ones where you bake the cupcake first, then fill the cupcake with unbaked cookie dough. Both kind requires you to freeze the cookie dough for a few hours till it’s firm, so don’t skip this step! This cookie dough cupcake recipe is the first kind – the cookie dough is baked with the cupcake batter. I am sure both kind tastes amazing. The only difference I know for sure is the latter one will have a prettier cupcake base. When I baked the cookie dough with the batter, the center of the cupcake sank probably because the cupcake batter was not dense enough. But hey, that’s why we have icing 😉 I just filled the hole with icing.

I combined several cupcake recipe together. I ended up using a classic yellow vanilla cupcake base from Natasha’s Kitchen. The recipe of the egg-free cookie dough and egg-free cookie dough frosting  is from Recipe Girl. Recipe girl used a chocolate cake base, but I felt more vanilla than chocolate this weekend =P. If you are more of a chocolate person, fill free to use a chocolate base. The cookie dough frosting is pretty yums. If you never had brown sugar frosting like me, you might be surprised by the grainy texture. I am totally falling in love with like this rustic caramel-y frosting, it truly taste like cookie dough. Yum!

INGREDIENTS
Cookie dough filling:

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick or 1/4 cup) unsalted butter, melted
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons granulated white sugar
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup miniature chocolate chips

Vanilla cupcake base:

• 1 1/4 cups cake flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup canola oil (vegetable or extra light olive oil also work)
• 1/2 cup buttermilk (or use buttermilk substitutes)

Cookie dough frosting:

• 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) salted butter
• 1 3/4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Garnish:

• 12 mini chocolate chip cookies
• additional mini chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS

1. For the cookie dough:
2. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt. In a medium bowl, use an electric mixer to stir together the butter, sugars, milk and vanilla.
3. Stir in the dry ingredients and the chocolate chips. Refrigerate for 15 to 30 minutes, or until the cookie dough is firm.
4. ........................................

for full instruction please see : joyscozyoven.com