Love cake AND cookies? Then this is a recipe for you! With just a few minor adjustments you can make many cookie recipes into cookie cakes – keep reading for tips on how to do that!
Torn between making cookies or a cake? You don’t need to explain it to me because I totally feel that ! This week I am taking my chocolate chip cookie recipe and making the slightest adjustments to turn it into a cookie cake that can be great for any occasion (or just because!). It’s almost Valentine’s Day so for this particular cake I decided to add a few heart sprinkles to make it a little more festive !
Check out my chocolate buttercream recipe to pair with your cookie cake.
Ally’s tips :
Be Careful not to over cook – I know, I know we say this almost every post but I would argue that it is one of the top reason why baking doesn’t turn out. Middle should seem a little soft still when you take it out of the oven. If you change the pan size or type this will impact the cooking time.
Make this at least a day ahead – We all love a warm cookie fresh out of the oven but if we have a cookie cake right out of the oven you won’t be able to add any designs because it does take awhile to cool down and it will be difficult to cut. Allow a min of 5-6 hours to cool completely or I recommend making it the day before.
Have another cookie recipe that you want to use?
If you can if your already have a favourite but you’ll just need to make a few adjustments. My recommendation is to compare the measurements of the recipe you have to mine below.
The ingredients you want to consider are:
-flour
-Sugar
-Butter
For example if my recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of flour but yours only takes 1 cup, you will want to double it so that you don’t have a thin crunchy cake (unless you are making a 5” or smaller cake). You’ll need to scale accordingly but don’t let that scare you because you could use many cookie recipes that are all kinds of different flavours if you want.
Also if you are making a cookie recipe into a cookie cake recipe, you’ll need to add 1-2 tbsp of cornstarch to give it more of a cake texture.
Ways to change this up:
If you are a blog post skimmer like myself, scroll back up for how you can use almost any standard cookie recipe to make it into a cookie cake. Double chocolate? White Chocolate Funfetti? SO many options!
Icing or no icing – you decide! Add some piping to the edge or write a message in the middle, you can do whatever you want to decorate this with no fancy cake decorating skills required !
Storage
Store in an airtight container for up to 4 days – I always recommend lining the container with paper towel so that any moisture that may occur will not dry out the cake but be absorbed into the paper towel.
Incase you get stuck, follow along the pics below!
Recipes I used to make this cookie cake:
My soft & chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe and added 1 tbsp of cornstarch & my chocolate buttercream for beginners recipe.
GIANT Cookie Cake
Equipment
- 1 10” cake pan
- 2 large mixing bowls
- Electric Mixer
- Parchment Paper
- Piping Bags Optional
Ingredients
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour sifted
- 1 Tbsp corn starch
- 1 Tsp baking soda
- 1/2 Tsp salt
- 1 Cup chocolate chips + extra for topping, optional
- 1/2 Cup butter salted, room temperature
- 1/3 Cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 Cup light brown sugar packed
- 1 Tsp vanilla
- 2 eggs room temperature
Chocolate Buttercream
- 3/4 Cup salted butter cold
- 4 Cups icing sugar
- 1/4 Cup milk room temperature
- 1 Tsp vanilla
- 1 Cup cocoa powder sifted
Instructions
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 10” cake pan with cooking spray or line with parchment paper. I usually line the bottom with paper and spray the sides with cooking spray.
- Add butter and sugars to mixer bowl and mix until well combined.
- Add eggs, one at a time, mixing in between.
- Add vanilla, mix until just combined.
- Add chocolate chips to the flour and stir. Coating them in flour will keep them from sinking to the bottom of your cookies. Then add to butter, sugars, egg mixture wth baking soda and salt.
- Once all the ingredients are mixed together, put the whole mixture into your prepared cake pan and spread out evenly to fill the pan.
- Sprinkle extra chocolate chips on top if desired.
- Once the oven is preheated, place for 18-22 mins until golden brown around the outside edges of the cake. Think about it like a pizza crust, the same amount around the edge should be golden. The middle should look slightly undercooked to keep the cake soft and chewy.
- Remove from oven and with a butter knife or very small spatula, slowly go around the edge of the pan so that as the cake cools it doesn’t get stuck.
- Cool in pan for 15-20 mins then remove from pan and let cool completely.
Chocolate Buttercream
- Start by adding butter to the large mixing bowl and add 1-2 cups of icing sugar. Mix on low to start combining and then increase speed to medium-high and beat butter and sugar together for 2 mins until completely combined, mixture should be light in colour. This is the time to make sure your butter and sugar are completely creamed together or you may have small butter bits in your icing.
- Once fully combined, scrape bowl with spatula to make sure no butter is sitting at the bottom. This is especially important with chocolate icing because any ingredients that are not completely combined are very noticeable.
- Add remaining icing sugar. Be sure to start mixing slowly or all the icing sugar will come up and out of the bowl. Use a mixing bowl guard if you have one.
- Once you start mixing the mixture will become very dry, add your vanilla and then milk. I usually add my milk half at a time mixing in between. Be sure to scrape the bottom of the bowl once or twice during this step to ensure everything is combined.
- Add the cocoa powder and mix until combined. Again, scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl once or twice to ensure that it is fully combined.
- Decorate however you want!
Notes
Made this easy FUNfetti sheet cake? Share your baking on socials and tag me @bakingwith.ally and use #bakingwithally so I can check it out!
Incase you missed these great recipes…
easy banana bread (or muffins)
thick & chewy chocolate chip cookies
