Chocolate Cookie Cake Recipe

Closeup on a plate of cookie cake with chocolate peanut butter cups.

5 from 4 votes

Chocolate Cookie Cake combines chocolate and peanut butter to make a simple but decadent dessert. Put this in the oven while you're eating dinner, and then serve it warm with ice cream!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword chocolate cookie cake, chocolate peanut butter cake

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 23

Total Time 43

Servings servings

Calories 442kcal

Author Sue Ringsdorf

Ingredients

Wet Ingredients:

1/2 cup unsalted butter - softened to room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
2 large eggs - at room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla

Dry Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
10 mini Reese's peanut butter cups - chopped into quarters

Instructions

Prep. Preheat oven to 350 degrees f. Use baking spray to coat the insides of a springform pan.
Combine wet ingredients. In a large mixing bowl, use a hand mixer (or use a stand mixer) to cream together the butter and sugar until very light and airy. Then add the egg, vanilla, and peanut butter - and mix again.
1/2 cup unsalted butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 large eggs, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
Add dry ingredients. Then add the dry ingredients - flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda. Mix again until just combined.
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/4 cup baking cocoa, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking soda
Add chocolate chips. Add the chocolate chips to the dough and mix to combine.
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
Transfer cookie dough to a springform pan. Scoop the dough into a prepared springform pan, smoothing it evenly to all sides of the pan.
Remove pan from oven and immediately spread chopped peanut butter cups over the top of the cookie, pushing down on them slightly to melt into the cookie.
10 mini Reese's peanut butter cups
Bake. Bake cookie cake for 22-25 minutes, or until it's done to your liking.
Rest. Let the cookie cake sit in the pan for about 8 minutes before removing the sides of the pan. Transfer cookie to a cutting board or wire rack to rest until ready to slice.
Serve. Serve wedges of cookie cake warm with a scoop of Homemade Vanilla Bean Ice Cream!

Notes

Instead of chocolate chips, feel free to add another variety - dark chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, white chocolate chips, or mini chocolate chips.

Skip the peanut butter cups and try a different topping - a drizzle of Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce, other candy bars, or some Old Fashioned Caramel Icing

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