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This cookie cake recipe is soft, chewy, and packed with chocolate chips—perfect for birthdays, celebrations, or anytime you’re craving a giant cookie! Easy to make with pantry staples and customizable with your favorite frosting and toppings. A fun dessert everyone will love!
There’s just something extra special about a cookie cake—it’s the perfect mash-up of a soft, chewy chocolate chip cookie and a celebratory cake. This easy cookie cake recipe comes together with simple ingredients you probably already have in your pantry, and it always disappears.
We have been making cookie cake in our house for decades! It is often highly requested for birthdays for a Chocolate Cake. Although I am still partial to the Chocolate Cream Cake that I grew up with every year on my birthday.
I think we first started making this when I was in high school. It was about that time when the cookie stores in the mall started selling them with different decorations. But I will be honest, the store bought ones are always dry in my opinion. So we started making our own, and haven’t stopped since.
What You’ll Need
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- Cookie Dough – I include my go to Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie dough in the recipe card, but you really can use any type of cookie dough you like. You can use a tube of store bought dough if that is what you have.
- Frosting – I used my favorite Easy Chocolate Frosting for this, but most of the time my family requests Vanilla Frosting. Whatever you like works great!
- Sprinkles – You can decorate with sprinkles or colored frosting or whatever you like to make it festive for whatever you are serving it for.
How To Make Cookie Cake
- Make Dough. If you are using a homemade cookie dough you cream the butter and sugars together and make cookie dough like you normally would. Add in your chocolate chips and make sure they are evenly distributed.
- Bake. Press the cookie dough into a pan. I like to use a springform pan so I can remove it and slice easily. But you can use a take pan or a pizza pan as well. The recipe makes enough for 2 cake pans, or you can make 1 larger pizza size. Bake until golden brown on the top and just barely set. You want to under bake the cookie as it will continue to cook after you remove it from the oven.
- Cool. Let the cookie cake cool completely. You can place it in the fridge if you are in a hurry, but if you frost while it is still warm the frosting will just melt.
- Frost. Spread your frosting over the cookie cake or use a piping bag and tips to decorate with an image, write words or just pipe along the edge. Immediately add sprinkles if desired.
- Serve. You can serve immediately after frosting, just slice into pieces and serve.
Recipe Tips & Tricks
- Do Not Over Bake. This is the number one tip and most important part. The cookie will continue to bake when you take it out of the oven. And it is thin, so it will dry out quickly. Take it out of the oven when it is barely done or even slightly under done for the absolute best results.
- Get Creative. How you decorate your cookie cake is entirely up to you. My family are those people that enjoy cake or other desserts because of the frosting, so we usually frost the entire cake with frosting and decorate. But you can pipe along the edges just to give it color and make it festive if you aren’t big on frosting.
- Cool. Make sure to let the cookie cool completely before frosting. The frosting will melt and become a mess if the cookie is still at all warm.
- Cookie Dough. You really can use any cookie dough for this. I prefer a homemade cookie dough, my favorite recipe is listed below. But if you have a favorite or even want to try it with Sugar Cookie Dough or want to take a shortcut and use store bought dough, so for it!
