I first posted about Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Filled Cupcakes way back on my other blog in March of 2011. They were a huge hit then, and they are still a favorite recipe.
But those are from scratch, and well… I sometimes like to take shortcuts. Besides, I mentioned in my first post, the cake part of those cupcakes was a bit dry and crumbly. So recently when I decided to bake those cupcakes, I took a shortcut.
Instead of the flour and salt and baking powder and baking soda, etc… I opted for a Pillsbury Golden Butter Recipe Cake Mix. I followed my adapted Butter Cake Recipe, then added mini chocolate chips at the end.
After that, I the original recipe for the filling… you can see step-by-step photos of how to fill the cupcakes here… then topped it with the brown sugar cookie dough frosting.
If you like this sort of thing, you may also want to check out the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cake I posted… it’s another very yummy variation.
Do you have any questions about these cupcakes? Please leave them in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer and help out!
For convenience, here’s the different components all in one place… here’s a printable version:
PrintChocolate Chip Cookie Dough Filled Cupcakes… Revisited
Ingredients
For the Filling:
- 4 tbsp. unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 6 tbsp. light brown sugar, packed
- 1 cup plus 2 tbsp. all-purpose flour
- 7 oz. sweetened condensed milk
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract
- ¼ cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
For the Frosting:
- 4 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature (salted works just fine too!)
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 4 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 Tbsp. pure vanilla extract
- mini chocolate chips, for decorations
Instructions
- Mix up the Butter Cake Recipe, gently stirring in mini chocolate chips at the end.
For the filling:
- Cream the butter and brown sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
- Add the flour, sweetened condensed milk and vanilla and continue to beat until smooth.
- Stir in the mini chocolate chips.
- Cover with plastic wrap or seal in an airtight container and refrigerate until the mixture has firmed up a bit. *I confess, I skipped this step. I put the filling into an icing bag with a large round tip (1A) and left it at room temperature until I used it. I’m not sure if or how it would’ve been better chilled.
- After the cupcakes have cooled, you can use an apple corer (mine is Tupperware) to easily pop out a hole in the middle of the cupcakes.
- Then pipe the cookie dough filling into the hole to fill in where you scooped out the cake, and smooth it down with your finger if needed.
- You could also just cut a chunk of cake out of the center with a knife if you wanted to and fill with a spoon, but the tools make it a little easier & neater!
- For photos of these steps, be sure to click here to my first post.
For the Frosting:
- Cream the butter and brown sugar with a mixer (or paddle attachment) until light and fluffy.
- Add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time and mix on low until it’s all added.
- Add the flour, salt, milk and vanilla and mix until it’s all incorporated. I know flour might be a surprise ingredient (or at least it was for me), but this is really some of the very best frosting ever.
- At this point, I switched my paddle attachment for my whisk attachment and whipped it up until it was super light and fluffy! It was so smooth… it was like it melted in my mouth!
- Frost the filled cupcakes. I used an icing bag with a 1M tip and garnished them with mini chocolate chips!
Hi Rose, thanks for the share! Just wondering whether you tried the frosting with a mix of shortening and butter? I’m considering giving it a try for crumb-coating cakes… What say – yay or nay!?
Thanks :)..
Yes, you could do half butter and half shortening or a 3:1 ratio. I think it would be fine!
How long should I cook the cupcakes?
18 minutes at 350°F
These sound so amazing! I’m going to try them tomorrow. I would like to know how long the filling can be kept for? Can it be frozen?
I’ve kept it in the frig around 2 weeks and it was still great. I don’t know beyond that. If I had to guess, I would assume it would freeze with no problems, but I haven’t tried it.
How many does this make? Also, on taste alone, which of your cookie dough cupcakes would you say is better? I’m going to do a practice run this week in prep for a bridal shower in May.