Cookie Cake Recipe
I promised this recipe many days ago, but the second time I made the recipe it was a little..off? So I’ve been doing some experimenting and tweaking, and this is the best I’ve come up with so far!
Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
1/2 c butter
1/2c granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar (tightly packed)
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 c all-purpose flour
1/4tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt (omit if using salted butter, which I wouldn’t recommend)
3/4 c semi-sweet mini chips (use 1/2 c if you’re not chocolate obsessed)
Preheat oven to 350F. Coat cookie cake pan (9×13)* with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars, then add the egg and vanilla and mix well.
In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Gradually add to the butter and sugar mixture, mixing until just combined.
Stir in the chocolate chips.
Spread dough into prepared pan with spatula. (or, more likely, your hand. It speeds the process up)
Bake 15-18mins, or until lightly golden brown. (My oven runs hot, if yours doesn’t I could see it taking u to 20 minutes if you like a harder cookie)
Cool on rack for at least 10 minutes, then remove from pan.
*My cookie cake pan is heart shaped, but said it holds any recipe that would fit a 9×13 inch baking pan.
Let cool completely, then decorate as you please.
Enjoy! If anyone makes the recipe, get back to me with results! I’m still playing around with it.
-Mel
March 3, 2008 at 7:09 am
Thanks for posting, Mel. I get a lot of emails from people requesting cookie cakes. I usually give them this one (below) but will refer them to your site instead….unless you try the one below and think it is as good.
Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies from Cooks Illustrated
2 1/8 cups all-purpose flour — (2 cups plus 2 tablespoons)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
12 tablespoons unsalted butter — (1 1/2 sticks)
melted and cooled until warm
1 cup light or dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cups semisweet or bittersweet chocolate chips — (1 to 2)
1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Adjust oven racks to upper- and lower- middle positions. Mix flour, salt, and baking soda together in medium bowl; set aside.
2. Either by hand or with electric mixer, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Mix in egg, yolk, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients; mix until just combined. Stir in desired amount of chips.
(Ignore what’s in bold print and skip down to the pan cookie part)
3. Form scant 1/4 cup dough into ball. Holding dough ball using fingertips of both hands, pull into two equal halves. Each half will have a jagged surface where it was ripped from the other; rotate each half up so the jagged surface faced the ceiling and press the halves back into one ball so that the top surface remains jagged. (The nooks and crannies you have created will give the baked cookies an attractive and somewhat rough, uneven appearance.) Place formed dough onto one of two parchment paper-lined cookie sheets, about 9 balls per sheet.
3. For pan cookie, press dough into pan and bake at 325 for 22-25 minutes (check to make sure it’s cooking steadily) unit done.
4. Bake, reversing cookies sheets’ positions halfway through baking, until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden yet centers are still soft and puffy, 15 to 18 minutes (start checking at 13 minutes). Cool cookies on cookie sheets. Serve or store in airtight container.
Recipe provided by the editors of Cook’s Illustrated.
March 6, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I’ll have to do a comparison soon!
March 12, 2008 at 9:41 am
this is gross. it is the nastiest most vulgar thing i have ever tasted!!!!!!!!!
March 12, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Interesting. What about it was so gross and vulgar?
April 6, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Mel,
Tabitha may be saying that it is gross because you actually left a step out of your recipe. I just finished making it for my husband’s birthday & as I was mixing in the chocolate chips, I realized that I must have forgotten to put the flour in, so I just mixed it in then. Then when I was cleaning up my mess, I noticed the baking powder & baking soda still sitting on the counter & that’s when I realized I forgot to put those 2 ingredients in too, but it was too late because the stuff was already in the oven baking. I figured that I must have skipped a step or something, so I re-read the recipe twice, and unfortunately, there are no instructions to mix in the flour, the baking soda or the baking powder. I immediately wrote it in on the copy of the recipe that I had printed out so that the next time I make this, I will definitely have all the necessary ingredients mixed in. So, Tabitha may not even have mixed in the flour at all. I guess it might be kind of gross without the main ingredient, don’t ya think? I’m just letting you know so that you can fix the instructions here on the website, because this recipe seems like it’s going to be the best one I’ve found so far.
April 9, 2008 at 12:01 am
Thanks! I have no clue how I missed that…or how I didn’t catch that in the million times I’ve edited this post.