A thick and chewy chocolate chip cookie cake can be decorated for any special occasion including a birthday party. It's easy to add "happy birthday" or any special message to the top of the giant cookie using frosting.
If you are celebrating a birthday and the guest of honor prefers cookies over a cake, this recipe is for you.
Everyone in my family falls into this category and they all love it when I show up to a birthday party with one of these giant chocolate chip cookie cakes.
Seriously, what's not to love? The cookie is crispy around the edges and soft and chewy in the middle. It's packed with a combination of dark and milk chocolate chips and decorated with vanilla and chocolate marshmallow frosting. YUM!
You can go out and buy one of these cookie cakes but homemade is so much better especially if you use this easy chocolate chip cookie cake recipe.
Plus, when you make it at home, you can have fun decorating it for any special occasion like a Halloween Cookie Cake, a Father's Day Cookie Cake, or even a Captain America Cookie Cake.
Let's make some cookie dough!
Ingredients
butter - Use unsalted butter. There's no need to set it out ahead of time as you will be melting the butter.
brown sugar - You can use light or dark brown sugar. I like using dark brown sugar to give my cookies a richer flavor but either will work fine.
eggs - You'll use 1 whole egg and 1 egg yolk. The extra egg yolk not only adds richness to the cookie dough but it also makes your cookie dough creamier resulting in softer cookies.
vanilla - Use pure vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste to flavor your cookie dough.
flour - It's important that you use all-purpose flour to make these cookies and it's best to weigh the flour for the most accurate measurement. If you don't have a kitchen scale, be sure to spoon the flour into your measuring cup, then run a knife over the top edge of the cup to remove any excess flour.
cornstarch - Adding cornstarch to your chocolate chip cookie dough will help to keep your cookies soft and chewy in the middle.
salt - A little salt is important to balance out the sweetness in your cookie recipes.
baking soda - Your cookies need a little lift and baking soda will do the trick.
chocolate chips - I like a blend of dark and milk chocolate chips in my cookies. You can use any combination of chocolate chips that you like. Just be sure to reserve some to sprinkle over the top of your cookie cake. You are serving it for a special occasion and you want it to look really nice!
frosting - I've shared an easy recipe for marshmallow frosting but you can use your favorite buttercream or store-bought frosting if you prefer.
Mixing the cookie dough.
This chocolate chip cookie dough is easy enough to make in a bowl. There's no mixer needed.
You'll mix melted butter with brown sugar and granulated sugar before mixing in an egg, then an egg yolk. and then a splash of vanilla. Combine the wet ingredients with the flour, baking soda, salt, and cornstarch, then stir in all but ½ cup of the chocolate chips. Easy, right?
Grab a 14-inch round deep dish pizza pan or a 14-inch cake pan and grease it with butter and flour or spray it with baking spray with flour. For easy removal, be sure to line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper. I like to use a circle of parchment paper but strips crisscrossed in the bottom and up the sides will work too.
Pat the dough into an even layer in the pan then sprinkle on the remaining chocolate chips.
How to decorate your chocolate chip cookie cake?
To make this birthday cookie cake, I filled two pastry bags, each fitted with a large open star tip (I used Wilton 4-B tips, with vanilla frosting and chocolate frosting and piped a border of alternating, chocolate and vanilla, stars around the edge of the cookie.
I frosted this cookie cake using homemade marshmallow frosting (see the easy recipe below) but you can use your favorite homemade buttercream frosting or you can use store-bought frosting. I love using Wilton Decorator Icing because it is stiff enough to hold peaks when piped and it has a nice flavor.
To pipe on the "Happy Birthday" message, I filled a pastry bag fitted with a smaller Wilton #21 star tip with white frosting and piped on the letters. Then, I added a line of chocolate frosting over the top using a #3 Wilton round pastry tip.
To make the balloons, I used red, blue, yellow, and white modeling chocolate. You can find the easy 2-ingredient modeling chocolate recipe over on my Hungry Happenings blog. You can use fondant or even frosting if you prefer.
Roll a small amount of red modeling chocolate into a ball, shape it into a teardrop, then flatten it slightly. Repeat, using blue and yellow. Then, pinch off tiny pieces of white modeling chocolate, shape them into oval shapes, and press them onto the balloons to create highlights.
Attach the balloons using a dab of frosting then pipe some strings from the bottom edge of the balloons.
Printable Recipe
chocolate chip cookie cake
A delicious chocolate chip cookie cake can be decorated for any special occasion including a birthday party. It's easy to add "happy birthday" or any special message to the top of the giant cookie using frosting.
Ingredients
- CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE CAKE
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened (170 grams)
- 1 cup packed light or dark brown sugar (208 grams)
- ½ cup granulated sugar (100 grams)
- 1 large egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 272 grams (2 ⅛ cups) all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup (170 grams) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup (85 grams) milk chocolate chips
- MARSHMALLOW FROSTING
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup shortening
- 7-ounce tub of marshmallow fluff
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cups powdered sugar
- optional, 1-2 tablespoons milk
- orange food coloring
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- DECORATION
- optional, red, blue, and yellow modeling chocolate or fondant
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (177° C)
- Spray a 14-inch, deep dish, aluminum pizza pan, or cake pan with non-stick baking spray.
- Wipe out any excess spray leaving just a thin layer of the spray in the pan.
- Cut two 24-inch long strips of parchment paper and lay them crosswise in the pizza pan allowing them to hang over the edges.
- Cut out a 14-inch round of parchment paper and press it into the bottom of the pan over the top of the long parchment paper strips.
- Cream the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the whole egg and mix it into the dough until combined.
- Then, mix in the egg yolk before adding the vanilla.
- Whisk the flour, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda together; then stir it into the cookie dough.
- Reserve ½ cup of chocolate chips for the top of the cookie then fold the rest into the cookie dough.
- Press the cookie dough into your prepared pan.
- Sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips over the top of the cookie and press them into the dough.
- Bake for 24-28 minutes until golden brown.
- Remove the pan from the oven and set it on a cooling rack.
- Run a thin knife around the edge of the cookie, releasing it from the pan.
- Allow the cookie to cool completely in the pan.
- While your cookie cake is cooling, prepare the frosting.
- Beat the butter and shortening together until smooth.
- Add the marshmallow fluff, vanilla, and powdered sugar.
- Beat for 2-3 minutes until creamy and smooth.
- If the frosting is too firm, add a small amount of milk and beat until combined. Add more if needed until the frosting is thick and creamy and will hold a peak.
- Sift the cocoa powder over the remaining frosting.
- Stir until well blended.
- If needed, add a small amount of milk to smooth out the frosting
- Once cooled, lift up on parchment paper strips, releasing the cookie from the pan.
- Slide the cookie off the parchment paper onto a serving platter or 14-inch cardboard cake round.
- Spoon vanilla frosting into a pastry bag fitted with a large open star tip.
- Spoon chocolate frosting into a pastry bag fitted with a large open star tip.
- Pipe a border of stars around the edge of the cookie, alternating between vanilla and chocolate frosting.
- Change the pastry tip on the vanilla frosting bag to a small open star tip. Change the tip on the chocolate frosting bag to a round tip.
- Pipe “Happy Birthday” using vanilla frosting.
- Use chocolate frosting to pipe a thin line over top of the “Happy Birthday” letters.
- Optionally, cut three small balloons out of your modeling chocolate or fondant and place them above the lettering on the chocolate chip cookie cake. Add strings below the balloons using chocolate frosting.
Notes
- Weigh your flour to get the most accurate measurement. If you don't have a scale, scoop up your flour and spoon it into a measuring cup. You'll need 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon of flour.
- Store your decorated Halloween chocolate chip cookie cake in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 491Total Fat: 25gSaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 58mgSodium: 167mgCarbohydrates: 66gFiber: 2gSugar: 46gProtein: 4g
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