This Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake is moist, chewy and super easy to make! You can decorate and customize this cookie cake for a birthday or other special occasion!
For more great cookie cakes, check out my Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer Cake, Reeses Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake or Funfetti Cake Batter Cookie Cake
I feel like Chocolate Chip Cookie Cakes are part of the core of my childhood. We always had them in my family and we loved them – still do! I knew – without any doubt – that we’d always have a cookie cake for my dad’s birthday. It’s still his cake of choice these days. He’s not really a big cake guy, but he loves cookies. And the frosting? Forget about it. Not his thing. So my younger brother and I would always stand by and divide his frosting between our slices of cookie. For us, the more frosting, the better!
As I got older, I realized that there were quite a lot of people that grew up not eating cookie cakes. I introduced a whole lot of great people to a whole new world. Bring on the cookie cakes!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cakes even make appearances at a lot of our football tailgates. And shoot, the twins even had cookie cakes for their 1st birthday smash cakes! So yea, a cookie cake family for sure.
When it comes to cookie cakes, they are so perfect for just about anything. They’re easy to make, easy to decorate, easy to take with you somewhere and who doesn’t love a good cookie?!
To make this cookie cake, you’ll basically make cookie dough and bake it in a cake pan. Simple!
So to get started, you’ll cream the butter and sugars together for about three to four minutes, until it’s light and fluffy. This cookie cake used a mix of both white and brown sugar for a deeper flavor.
To that mixture you’ll add an egg and some vanilla extract.
Finally, you’ll add your dry ingredients. Here we’re using a combination of flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt. The cornstarch tenderizes the cookie a bit and the baking soda is just about always my preferred leavener for a cookie. It just creates a chewier texture that I love.
Of course it wouldn’t be complete without the chocolate chips, so mix some of those in there too. Bake the cookie cake for roughly 20 minutes. It’ll be lightly golden around the edges and set in the center. Although it might not look totally done, you don’t want to overcook it. It’ll continue cooking and firming up as it cools. As long as the top of the cookie has lost it’s glossy look, it should be done.
When the cookie cake is done baking, you’ll want to let it cool COMPLETELY in the pan. Removing it from the pan before then will result in a cookie that falls apart. But once it’s cool, it’ll be nice and firm and you can flip it out of the pan and quickly flip it back onto a serving platter or cardboard circle.
There’s really very little you need to do for a cookie cake, unless you want to make it fancy. You can use the chocolate buttercream I used, or swap it out for my Vanilla Buttercream. And of course, choose your favorite sprinkles.
You could even get a little crazy and make a 9×13 cookie cake and pipe decorations on it. I did something similar with my Flag Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake and Christmas Tree Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake and they were super fun.
However you decorate your cookie or whatever your celebration is, this cookie cake is sure to be a hit and better than any store-bought version. It’s thick, soft, chewy and full of tasty chocolate chips. As a long time fan of Chocolate Chip Cookie Cakes, I will tell you that this one’s the best!
More Great Cookie Cake Recipes To Love
Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer Cake
Funfetti Cake Batter Cookie Cake
Samoa Cookie Cake
Reeses Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Triple Chocolate Cookie Cake
Oreo Cookie Cake
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bottomed Cheesecake
Recipe originally posted February 2013. Updated October 2019.
Print- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 18 minutes
- Total Time: 48 minutes
- Yield: 8-10 slices
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake is moist, chewy and super easy to make! You can decorate and customize this cookie cake for a birthday or other special occasion!
Ingredients
COOKIE CAKE
- 3/4 cup (168g) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup (108g) loosely packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup (52g) sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups (260g) all purpose flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cups (211g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM
- 1/4 cup (56g) salted butter
- 1/4 cup (48g) shortening
- 1 3/4 cups (201g) powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup (29g) natural unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1–2 tbsp water
Instructions
COOKIE CAKE:
CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM:
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Slice
- Calories: 590
- Sugar: 51.3 g
- Sodium: 256.1 mg
- Fat: 32.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 73.4 g
- Protein: 5.4 g
- Cholesterol: 67.4 mg
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Love this recipe. Have you ever made it in muffin pans?
★★★★★
Like as cookie cups?
Could this be done in a rectangle baking dish or sheet pan and carved into a number, for a special birthday?
This cake was a huge hit for my cousin’s birthday! If I triple the recipe, can I put it in two cake pans and make two sheet cakes?
★★★★★
This looks so yummy! Could you use something else aside from shortening for the frosting?
Yes, just use additional butter.
This recipe was amazing! I made a heart shaped version as a surprise for my boys on Valentines Day and it is the new birthday cake request!! My husband doesn’t even like sweet stuff but he had seconds! So tasty! Thank you for sharing this!
★★★★★
Could I add m&ms to this recipe?
Definitely
This was amazing! I only changed out the semi sweet for milk chocolate chips and received rave reviews from my friends. This will be a party favorite!
This recipe worked great. Thanks for posting it.
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This cookie cake is unbelievably delicious!! I’ve made it more than once, and it always comes out perfect! I just doubled the recipe because I’m making a birthday cookie cake for my 19 year old and 10 of his friends 😊. Just took it out of the oven, and it smells like heaven! Never disappointed!! Thanks so much for this yummy recipe!
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Hi! I wanted to double it, and put it in a 9 by 13″ rectangular pan, so I was wondering how long I should bake it for and if I need to change the temp. Thank you!
When making a 9×13 version, I change it up a bit. Check out this cookie cake for that recipe.