Day 27 – Milk and Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes

I’m sure (by this point) I don’t need to remind you that I love cookies.  Can’t pass em up, in fact.  Milk and Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes (recipe from raspberri cupcakes).  Cupcakes stuffed with cookie dough?!  Is this for real?!?!

    

This cake is light and moist.  And tastes like a fluffy chocolate chip cookie.  I like the chocolate chips cause they break up the smooth sweetness of the cake.

   

Forget it.  This cookie dough filling is insane!!!!!  So.  Good.  It’s really thick, and a little hard to spoon into the holes, but it’s malleable like cookie dough, so I just used my fingers to roll it into balls.

I have never used condensed milk in frosting.  I like it!  It’s strong and pipeable.  It has a sweet texture to it, but it’s tricky cause it isn’t actually overly sweet.

   

All of this works!  It’s not too rich or too sweet.  It is like eating a frosted chocolate chip cookie…which I’ve never considered doing before…but now I just might!

Scoring Sheet:

– Cupcake Taste: 4

– Frosting Taste: 4.5

– Overall Taste: 4.5

– Appearance: 5

– Ease of Making: 3 (while there are 3 parts, none of them are even remotely complicated)

– TOTAL: 21

RECIPE

Milk & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes (recipe from raspberri cupcakes)

For the cupcakes:
125g (1 stick plus about 1 tbsp) unsalted butter, at room temperature
155g (3/4 cup) sugar
2 eggs
225g (about 1 + 3/4 cups) self-raising flour + 1/4 tsp salt

1/3 cup milk
1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Optional: 1/2-2/3 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips (or finely chopped chocolate)

For the cookie dough filling:

55 g (4 tbsp) unsalted butter, at room temperature
6 tbsp light brown sugar, packed
1 cup plus 2 tbsp (about 135g) all-purpose flour
1/2 can (200g/7 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1/4 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips (or finely chopped chocolate)

For the icing:

350g (3 sticks) unsalted butter, chopped into cubes

400g (about 3 1/4 cups) icing/confectioner’s sugar, sifted

1/2 can (200g/7 oz) sweetened condensed milk

To decorate: milk bottle candies, mini chocolate chip cookies

For directions visit raspberri cupcakes.

*Tomorrow: Blueberry Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Frosting*