Use a spatula to press down the dough into the pie pan. Remove the bowl from the mixer and fold in ½ cup of the chocolate chips. With the mixer on low, add the flour mixture until just combined.Add the vanilla, egg, milk, and orange zest and beat for 1 minute. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or with an electric mixer), cream together the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar with paddle attachment for 2 to 3 minutes until fluffy.Combine the flour, baking soda, and kosher salt in a bowl.Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.Just for fun, here a few of the books we’ve read in our book club: And if you’re celebrating a birthday, it’s also a really fun birthday treat for kids or adults! Whatever way you try it, let us know in the comments below if it’s a hit! Book club book recommendations Of course, it’s a fantastic treat or snack for a book club! Alex and I just brought it to a family cookout pitch in, which was fabulous. This cookie cake recipe is perfect for all sorts of occasions. It brings in an undertone that makes it seriously addicting! Here we’ve played off the natural pairing of chocolate and orange. Adding a bit of a tang to desserts brings out the flavor even more: just like adding a spritz of lemon to any recipe. Here we used over-sized dark chocolate chips for a fun visual. The better the chocolate, the tastier the recipe. For this cookie cake, we’ve used two types of sugar to bring in a more nuanced sweetness. For our version of a cookie cake, we used a normal 9-inch pie pan, which works perfectly.įor the flavor of this cookie cake, we wanted it to taste nuanced enough to taste grown up, but yummy enough to please kiddos too. This cookie cake recipe is pretty similar to a typical baked recipe: but as the name would suggest, it’s a cross between a cake and a cookie! The texture comes out perfectly soft and chewy, like a soft version of a cookie.
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Are you ready to get cooking? How to make this cookie cake recipe And when we served it to our book club for the fifth anniversary bash, complete with “Happy birthday book club!” in icing, everyone loved it too. Why isn’t orange in all chocolate chip cookies?” Why indeed. We sent this out to a recipe tester Erin, who made it with her two girls. And the texture: perfectly soft and chewy, just how we like our cookie cakes.
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(We think, at least!) The dark chocolate chunks and a hint of orange zest make it seriously irresistible: the flavor is oh so real. BUT, it is 100% more delicious than a store bought cookie cake. Why make a homemade cookie cake recipe? While many of Alex and my dessert recipes are on the healthier side, take note: this cookie cake recipe does not have a healthy spin! We can’t really say homemade is healthier in this case. Why a homemade chocolate chip cookie cake?Ĭelebrating with a cookie cake is the tradition of our book club on our “book club birthday.” It was just our fifth anniversary of meeting together, so of course: a cookie cake was in store! This year, I wanted to try to create one at home instead of buying it at the store.