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Hooray for Cookie Dough
This cookie dough frosting recipe comes straight from the owner of DŌ Cookie Dough Confections, Kristen Tomlan. Kristen is the genius behind the first gourmet edible cookie dough bakery and, luckily, she’s one of my dearest friends. She is generously allowing me to share her favorite cookie dough buttercream with all of you, a recipe from her cookbook! Hello, Cookie Dough cookbook by Kristen Tomlan is a dessert lovers dream come true. This book offers a must-have collection of 110 delicious dessert recipes for bakers of any skill level. It’s filled with dozens of safe-to-eat cookie dough recipes and flavors, plus endless chapters of sweet treats including brownies, cakes, cookies, fudge, and breakfast sweets all centered around our favorite flavor: cookie dough! (Link to Kristen’s beautiful book is an affiliate link.) I published her cookie dough cupcakes on my blog and decided to give the cookie dough buttercream a separate page, just in case you want to use it for different recipes. Unlike other cookie dough frostings, this recipe combines buttercream AND cookie dough—it’s not just cookie dough “flavored.” Rather, there are actual pieces of cookie dough inside every single bite.
Why You’ll Love This Cookie Dough Frosting
from the world’s most popular cookie dough bakery combines buttercream AND cookie dough completely safe-to-eat uses basic ingredients brown sugared and filled with mini chocolate chips
Plus, this recipe yields extra cookie dough for garnish or snacking!
Safe-To Eat Cookie Dough
This frosting is completely safe to eat because we’re using heat-treated flour and pasteurized egg whites. More info on each: I love that this buttercream is slightly salted, so it’s not overly sweet. By itself, it’s reminiscent of actual cookie dough. Use a spoon to break little chunks of cookie dough, then beat it into the frosting on low speed. It’s ok if the cookie dough chunks are not fully combined into the buttercream. (Because why wouldn’t you want surprise cookie dough bites in frosting?!) You can spread the frosting onto the cupcakes with a knife/icing spatula or pipe with a large round piping tip. The cookie dough chunks will get stuck in a smaller tip. Pile it on high!
Cookie Dough Frosting Tastes Best With:
Cookie Dough Cupcakes Vanilla Cupcakes Chocolate Cupcakes Confetti Cupcakes Peanut Butter Cupcakes White Cake Chocolate Cake Vanilla Cake
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