This homemade cookie cake is a thick and chewy chocolate chip cookie with a soft, chewy center and thick crisp edges perfect to serve to a crowd or enjoy as dessert with your family.
This homemade cookie cake is a classic shareable dessert made with a delicious homemade cookie dough baked in a pan and cut into slices to serve. We love that this recipe uses pantry-staple ingredients making it our go-to dessert whenever we are craving a sweet treat or are hosting.
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Easy dessert recipe
- Thick, chewy, chocolate chip cookie cake
- Crowd-pleaser dessert
Ingredients & Substitutions
- Butter - Butter softened at room temperature adds to the chewy texture of the cookie cake as well as enriches the flavors.
- Sugar - This recipe calls for both brown sugar and cane sugar to add sweetness to the cookies and help give them their chewy texture.
- An Egg - An egg helps bind the dough together and help retain moisture in the dough.
- Vanilla Extract - Vanilla extract adds to the flavors of the cake.
- Flour - We recommend using unbleached all-purpose flour for this recipe.
- Baking Powder and Baking Soda - Baking powder and baking soda both help to leaven the cake.
- Salt - Salt is necessary to enhance the flavors of the cookie cake.
- Chocolate Chips - Dark chocolate, milk chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate chips all work great in this recipe. We recommend using your favorite or whatever you have on hand.
Complete list of ingredients and amounts is located on the recipe card below.
Kitchen Tools & Equipment
- Mixing Bowl - A mixing bowl is necessary to mix the dough together in.
- Hand Mixer - A hand mixer helps to easily mix the cookie dough together.
- Springform Pan - We highly recommend using a 9 inch springform pan for this recipe, because it makes it easier to serve the slices of cookie cake.
How to Make a Homemade Cookie Cake
Step 1. Mix the cookie dough together.
Step 2. Spread the cookie dough out in the pan.
Step 3. Bake the cookie cake in the oven.
Recipe Serving Suggestions
This recipe makes one 9-inch cookie cake that can serve 4-6 people. We love to top the cookie cake with frosting and serve with ice cream.
If you like this recipe, you will love our other easy, delicious dessert recipes.
- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Classic Scotcharoos
- Fudgy Brownies
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- No Bake Cookies
Expert Tips & Variations
- Use a springform pan. Using a springform pan makes it easy to cut and serve the cookie cake.
- Butter the pan. We highly recommend buttering the pan to ensure the cake doesn't stick to the pan.
How to Store
- Countertop - in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
- Freezer - in a freezer-safe container for up to 3 months.
Recipe FAQ
Use a gluten-free flour blend instead of all-purpose flour in this recipe.
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Homemade Cookie Cake
This homemade cookie cake is a thick and chewy chocolate chip cookie with a soft, chewy center and thick crisp edges perfect to serve to a crowd or enjoy as dessert with your family.
Ingredients
- 1 and ½ sticks butter, softened at room temperature
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup cane sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 and ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and use butter to grease a 9inch pan.
- Add the softened butter to a mixing bowl with brown sugar and cane sugar.
- Use a hand mixer to cream the butter and sugar together.
- Add the vanilla extract and an egg and mix together with the creamed butter and sugar.
- Pour the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda into the bowl and mix with the wet ingredients.
- Add the chocolate chips into the bowl and fold the chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
- Transfer the cookie dough to the buttered pan and spread out evenly in the pan.
- Place the pan in the oven and bake the cookie cake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
- When a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cake, remove the pan from the oven.
- Allow the cookie cake to cool before cutting into slices to serve.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 338Total Fat: 9gSaturated Fat: 5gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 36mgSodium: 307mgCarbohydrates: 64gFiber: 2gSugar: 46gProtein: 4g
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