Show your love with this sweet Valentine's Day Cookie Cake! This heart shaped cookie cake is made with a fresh baked extra thick chocolate chip cookie and topped with delicious pink buttercream frosting.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword cake, chocolate chip, cookies, Valentine's Day
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 22 minutesminutes
Total Time 37 minutesminutes
Servings 12
Calories 596kcal
Author Stacey aka the Soccer Mom
Cost $10
Equipment
Stand mixer
Piping bag
Heart shaped cake pan
Mixing bowls
Ingredients
Cookie Cake Ingredients
¾Cupbutterunsalted, softened
¾Cuplight brown sugarpacked
¼Cupsugar
1egg
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
2Cupflour
2teaspoonscornstarch
1teaspoonsbaking soda
½teaspoonskosher salt
1Cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2Cupsemi-sweet chocolate chunks
1/2CupRed and White M&M’s
½Cuppink and white heart sprinkles
Frosting Ingredients
1 1/2Cupbutterunsalted, softened
3Cuppowdered sugar
4Tablespoonsheavy whipping cream
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
Pink gel food coloring
Instructions
To Make the Cake:
Preheat oven to 350°F and prep pan with non-stick baking spray.
Using a standing mixer, cream butter and sugar until smooth and fluffy.
Mix in the egg and vanilla.
In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together dry ingredients.
Slowly mix dry ingredients into bowl of wet ingredients.
Fold in the chocolate chips, chocolate chunks and M&Ms by hand with a wooden spoon.
Press batter into the heart shaped pan.
Add pink and white heart sprinkles to top of cookie.
Bake at 350 for 20-22 minutes or until lightly browned on the sides.
Remove from oven and allow to cool completely before frosting.
For the Frosting:
Using a standing mixer to beat together all frosting ingredients (minus food coloring) until smooth and stiff peaks form.
Mix in a few drops of the pink coloring until you have a nice rich pink color.
Scoop frosting into piping bag fitted with a star tip.
To Decorate:
Pipe frosting along the edge of the cookie cake and finish with more sprinkles.
Feel free to use a fine tip in your decorating bag and write a Valentine message on the middle of the cookie in frosting!
Notes
Note: Nutrition information is a rough estimate only; actual values will vary based on the exact ingredients used and amount of recipe prepared.This makes a big batch of frosting, and you'll likely only use half to decorate the cookie. We based our nutrition calculations on half a batch of frosting.