Cake Ball Chocolate Chip Cookies

There are lots of things that I do well.

Making baked goods.

Eating baked goods.

Reading.

Math.

Being a wife and mom (well, I think I do that well).

Eating baked goods.

Watching Real Housewives, and my new fav, Beverly Hills Nannies.

Having the discipline to exercise (notice I said discipline to do, not actually doing).

Eating baked goods.

Of course, there are lots of things I don't do well.

Like trying new foods. (Thanks to Dr. Google, I'm pretty sure I have food neophobia.)

Discipline (really, I suck).

Cleaning (I hate it).

And, among other things, I am really not good at rolling cake balls.

Seriously, I see cake balls all over the internets. Perfect ones. Gorgeously round, plump, and smooth. And that's before dipping!

And it's not just cake balls. Truffles. Cookie dough balls. Anything round that requires rolling. Other people seem to be able to roll perfectly round spheres of goodness.

Mine? Look like deformed brains.

I have never, ever, not even once rolled a perfect round ball-of-anything.

They always look oddly misshapen, like they been sent through a wormhole to another dimension and back.

Probably why I don't make cake balls and truffles very often.

That, and dipping in chocolate makes me want to poke a sharp stick in my eye.

Now, I love cake balls as much as the next person. I've been known to throw back a few dozen or so in a sitting.

I also love cookies. And it seems fashionable as of late to stuff cookies with things.

So why not marry the two? Stuff a cake ball in a cookie?

But, then came my dilemma. Cake balls require rolling, thus causing misshapen, deformed little brains and lots of frustration.

And then I remember something that the Desperate Chefwife did awhile back. She made her own Nutella chunks by spreading it out in a thin layer and freezing, then cutting chunks of Nutella goodness to add to her cookies.

Would it work with cake ball mixture?

Yup, it totally does.

{Although you should cut them smaller than in that photo. Those were a little big. They'll break up a little bit in the mixing process.}

Added to my chocolate chip recipe, the cake ball chunks added a marbled texture of goodness. No deformed brains here!

Like I said. I'm good at baking.

And eating....sigh.

Cake Ball Chocolate Chip Cookies

by Crazy for Crust (Adapted from these cookies)

Ingredients

For the Cake Ball Chips

• 6 chocolate cupcakes or ¼ of a 9x13” cake
• ¼ cup vanilla frosting

For the Cookies

• 1 stick butter
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Make the cake ball chips: crumble cake into a large bowl. Stir in frosting until thoroughly mixed. Press into a thin layer on wax paper on a cookie sheet. Freeze for at least one hour. Once the layer is frozen, slice into bite sized chunks. Keep frozen until ready to use.
2. Melt butter in a microwave safe bowl. Pour into an electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment. While still hot, add both sugars and mix on low until combined. Let sit to cool for a few minutes.
3. While butter mixture is cooling, combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Stir and set aside.
4. Turn mixer (with butter mixture bowl attached) on low. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing completely. Mix in vanilla extract. Add flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until combined. Add chocolate chips and frozen cake ball chips. Chill for 30 minutes to one hour, until cooled.
5. Preheat oven to 350°. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto parchment lined cookie sheets. Bake for 9-11 minutes (depending on size). Cookies made from my 2-tablespoon cookie scoop baked in 11 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes, and then remove from pans to cool completely.

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