Hey you, yes you. How has your week been going? It’s Thursday, so that means you’ve probably been working hard and getting things done all week. Been responsible and reasonable and totally respectable. And isn’t it all kind of awful? Is it starting to get to you, like an itch under your skin? Friend, I have just the antidote for that sort of mundane: Chocolate Cookie Dough Cupcakes. Tell me those words don’t send a tiny shiver of delight down your spine. (No, don’t tell me. If it didn’t, I don’t want to know that there’s no joy left in you.) This tiny batch (makes just four) of these ridiculous, delightful little cupcakes is exactly the sort of thing you need at the end of a long work week. They’re decadently delicious, just on the right side of impractical, and shockingly easy to make.
They’re made with my favorite small-batch chocolate cupcake base, a base which is so soft and moist and incredibly chocolatey that you could happily eat it plain right out of the oven, but don’t because you need something to put this cookie dough frosting on. And this frosting, OMG THIS FROSTING, it tastes like you made a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough, magically added a bit of creaminess to it and piled it on a cupcake. It’s the dream frosting for those of us who spent our childhoods begging to lick the cookie dough bowl. Together with the rich chocolate cake, it’s A LOT. Like, pour yourself a glass of milk or coffee and settle in for a good time, a lot, because it’s a cupcake to eat slowly, savor, and lick the frosting from your fingers when it’s gone.
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Chocolate Cookie Dough Cupcakes Recipe Tips
Not feeling the chocolate cupcake base? You could make vanilla cookie dough cupcakes using this frosting on my Small-batch Vanilla Cupcakes recipe (maybe throw some chocolate chips in the batter too). This frosting contains flour. If you’re concerned about using raw flour in your frosting, I give instructions in the recipe for cooking it first, but this does change the flavor of the frosting slightly as part of the taste of cookie dough is the raw flour taste. Properly softened butter is a MUST for the frosting recipe. If your butter is not soft enough, the ingredients will not mix completely and you will end up with little flour lumps in your frosting. You want butter that is not melted but soft enough to easily squish with a finger. This shouldn’t be a problem during the summer, but in cold kitchens during the winter, you may need to cut the butter into cubes and place somewhere warm for a couple minutes. Finally, I recommend using a handheld electric mixer for the frosting. Small-batch frostings can usually be made by hand in a pinch, but I suspect you’ll have a hard time getting the flour to mix completely in this recipe if doing it by hand.
Frosting Adapted From I Am Baker
