Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Frosting

– April 14, 2011Posted in: Cupcake, Dessert, Two New a Week

A few weeks ago I made the deadly and dangerous Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake to make my day better from the wonderful Culinary Concoctions by Peabody. She warns that there will be extra cookie dough truffles, and oooh was she right. After a few days of hiding them in the freezer and being unsure of what I wanted to make with them, I decided to follow her lead and use the rest for cupcakes. I’ve been dying to try cookie dough cupcakes anyway.

I sold these at a bake sale for a previous employee of my store who has been battling cancer and raised $300. I was sold out long before we closed and probably could have sold a ton more if I had been better prepared. I was proud of myself though, I can always make improvements for the next time we need to raise some funds at the shop.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Frosting

From Culinary Concoctions by Peabody

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 ½ tsp baking soda
  • ¼  tsp salt
  • 12 TBSP unsalted butter , at room temperature
  • 2 cups light brown sugar
  • 3 large eggs (room temp, separated)
  • 9 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 ½ tsp vanilla
  • cookie dough truffles

Preparation:

Grease and flour two muffing/cupcake pans.
Sift dry ingredients and set aside. Using medium speed of mixer, cream butter until smooth. Add sugar and beat until fluffy for 3 minutes. In separate bowl, beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored for 2 minutes. Add beaten yolks to butter mix and beat well. Add chocolate, mixing well. Add dry ingredients in thirds, alternating with milk and vanilla.
With each addition, beat until well mixed, but do not overbeat. Using a spatula, scrape down bowl, making sure ingredients are well blended and batter is smooth. In separate bowl, beat egg whites on high to soft peaks.
Gently fold into batter. Scoop batter into muffin pans, filling them up 1/3 of the way. Add a cookie dough truffle to the middle of the cupcake batter. Cover with another 1/3 of cake batter.

Bake at 350º for 18-22  minutes.
Cool in pans 10 minutes.

Brown Sugar Buttercream

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 4- 6 cups confectioners’ sugar
  • ½  cup milk
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Preparation:

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine butter, 2 cups brown sugar, 2 cups confectioner’s sugar, milk, and vanilla. Beat on medium speed until smooth and creamy, 3 to 5 minutes. Gradually add remaining sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating for about 2 minutes after each addition, until icing reaches desired consistency; you may not need to add all the sugar. Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

I omitted the chocolate from the cupcake recipe because I didn’t feel like a chocolate cupcake. Not sure what was up with that but oh well, I live to break the rules. If you do refrigerate the buttercream frosting, give yourself plenty of time for it to come to room temp again before you try to pipe those cupcakes – trust me.

Ok, I think we’ve had enough calories this week to last us a long long time. So enjoy these cupcakes with me and hit the salad bar heavy on the weekend because next week… Next week is trouble. I promise.

 

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