These super moist chocolate chip yellow cupcakes with cream cheese buttercream frosting and chocolate chip cookie crumbs reign supreme in the dessert world. Soft, fluffy, and bursting with buttery flavor. These are some of my favorite cupcakes!
Hey guys! I’m Emily from Layers of Happiness – a food blog where I share easy, drool-worthy recipes with my mom. I’m so happy to be here with you this morning to share one of our family’s new favorite recipes. Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes. These are such a fun mashup of chocolate chip cookies and cupcakes. Chocolate chip cookies and cupcakes were meant to be together.
A really good cupcake is pretty hard to pass up… but adding the creamy dreamy buttercream frosting and chocolate chip cookie crumbs on top- takes right over the top! Mmmmm hmmm.
These cupcakes were inspired by our favorite cupcakes at a local bakery… “Milk & Cookies” is what they are called, but they should be called “Cookie Monster Dreams” because these are a cookie-lover’s dream!!
The cupcake base is made of a classic yellow cake batter with mini chocolate chips mixed in. Not just any cake batter though, this cake is so rich, tender and incredibly moist. The cupcake then gets topped off with a cream cheese buttercream for a little extra richness, and chocolate chip cookie crumbs for a little extra pizzazz. Each bite completely melts in your mouth.
I used store bought cookies and crumbled them into crumbs, but if you are super fancy, you could totally make your own chocolate chip cookies to crumble on top
NOW the next time you go reaching for boxed mixes and canned frosting (eww), take 2 seconds to read this sentence: NOTHING beats the flavor of this homemade chocolate chip cookie, cream cheese buttercream frosted, super moist yellow cupcake. If you’re shaking your head doubting your cupcake baking skills, let me tell you that it is not impossible to make a buttery, rich, moist yellow cake from scratch! And you can do it with everyday ingredients like milk, flour, sugar, and eggs. You can! You can..
Cupcake lovers, unite! 🙂
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- ½ cup melted butter
- ½ cup all vegetable shortening melted
- ½ cup milk
- 1 ¼ cup all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 Tablespoon almond extract
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup mini chocolate chips
- 4 ounces unsalted butter softened
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup chocolate chip cookie crumbs
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners.
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Combine sugar, eggs, and egg yolk in a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment on high speed until combined.
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Gradually add milk, beating until combined. Then gradually add melted butter and shortening, beating until combined.
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In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add flour mixture to sugar egg mixture one cup at a time. Add extract and beat just until combined. Fold in chocolate chips. Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin cups. Bake for 18-20 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Be careful not to under bake cupcakes. Under baking cupcakes will cause the center to sink in.
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Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan.
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In a large bowl, beat together the butter and cream cheese with a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. With the mixer on low speed, add the powdered sugar a cup at a time until smooth and creamy. Beat in the vanilla extract. Fold in about 1/2 cup chocolate chip cookie crumbs.
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Frost cupcakes and top with remaining cookie crumbs.
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Oh my goodness these look divine! I have all ingredients on hand except for the shortening. Would extra butter in place of the shortening change the texture of the cupcakes?
I love everything with chocolate chips 🙂
This looks like the best of both worlds: cupcakes and cookies! Such a great idea!
Oh wow – you’ve combined my 2 favourite things ever into one epic dessert!!
They look delicious Chelsea!
These are the cutest cupcakes, Chelsea! I love that you combined my favorite cookie in cake form. Sounds delicious!
Cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies TOGETHER? I am 100% sure that these babies are what my dreams are made of! I’ll take 3 please 😉 Pinned
Oh my gosh!!! These look amazing! Those cookie crumbles make for an awesome looking cupcake!
sooooooooooo buttery and the perfect combo of cookies and cupcakes!
These chocolate chip cupcakes look beautiful and I’m sure delicious!
I am totally up for a mash up recipe especially mixing two of my favorite desserts…cookies and cupcakes. Brilliant!
Oh Gosh, these are so adorable! Love these cupcakes, Chelsea! Sounds delicious!
These cupcakes are too cute, Emily and Chelsea! Chocolate chip cookies are a favorite but in cupcake form they sound simply irresistible! Love the cookie crumble topping too!
I’m pinning these right now. Perfection!
I love these so much!!! Like really really love!
So my four year old really wanted chocolate chip cupcakes for her birthday celebration at school. I came across this recipe & thought how perfect it sounded for a classroom of four & five year olds (& the adults in the room). I doubled this recipe & it made close to 36 cupcakes. I made sure to refridgerate the frosting before spreading it on the completely cooled cupcakes. Honestly, I was afraid that the two tablespoons of almond extract would make it too almond forward… rest assure, my family LOVED these…. as did my neighbors… as I’m sure the kids in my daughter’s class will… Thank you!
Yay!! I’m so thrilled everyone enjoyed these cupcakes! I appreciate your comment Jaimie!
Made these for my niece’s birthday. My middles fell a bit and the chips sank to the bottom. I rolled them is flour.. I’m thinking the temp in my oven is off. That being said- The taste and texture of these were WONDERFUL! A little dense (which is what I like), moist, just great! Made two dozen, guest took home the few left overs. Lots of compliments on these. Definatly going to make them again.
Hi Gina! I am so thrilled to hear these were a hit! 🙂 I love hearing that! Thanks so much for the comment 🙂 And if you get your oven calibrated, it might help with the middles not sinking in. Or perhaps check to make sure your baking agents are fresh. Thanks again!