I had mentioned in another post that I have made monster cookie dough cupcakes before and would be posting the recipe at some point in the “near future.”
One of my darling readers decided she’d had enough of my empty promises and emailed me demanding a recipe!
(I’m totally just kidding. She really sent a very sweet email asking if she could pretty please have the recipe for her husband’s upcoming birthday.)
So I promised her a recipe this week.
10:46pm Thursday night arrived, and still no cupcakes in the Swank kitchen.
Typical.
Desperately not wanting to clean the kitchen for a third time in the day,
I thought I’d give a go at a single serving cupcake– and I goofed and got 4.
So these are really Quadruple Serving Monster Cookie Dough Cupcakes.
Thank goodness I’m such an experienced cupcake eater.
Whew.
I can for sure handle eating 4.
But you only have to clean one bowl and one fork when your done!
(with a quick rinse in between the batter and the frosting 
{Don’t worry dear email-er, there are adaptations for a full recipe at the bottom!}
One Bowl Monster Cookie Dough Cupcakes
Ingredients:
For the Cupcakes:
- 1 Tbsp. Peanut Butter
- 1 Tbsp. Butter
- 1/4 c. Flour
- 2 Tbsp. Sugar
- 1 Egg White
- 1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 Tbsp. Milk
- a teensy splash of vanilla
- a small handful of Chocolate Chips
For the Cookie Dough Frosting:
- 2 Tbsp. Peanut Butter
- 2 Tbsp. Margarine or Butter (softened to room temperature)
- 2 Tbsp. Flour
- 2 Tbsp. Brown Sugar
- 1/2 c. Oats
- 3/4 c. Powdered Sugar
- 2-3 Tbsp. Milk
- a handful of plain M&Ms
- a handful of Chocolate Chips
Instructions:
For the Cake
1. Melt butter in the microwave for 10 seconds.
2. Mix in the rest of the ingredients until your batter forms.
3. Bake in cupcake liners at 350 for 19 minutes. Let cool.
For the Cookie Dough Frosting:
1. Using a fork mix together the butter, peanut butter, and 1/4 c. powdered sugar.
2. Add 1 Tbsp. milk. Whisk with the fork until it’s pretty smooth.
3. Add the remaining powdered sugar (1/4 cup at a time, mixing after each addition), the brown sugar, and the flour. Add milk as needed to help with the consistency.
3. Add the remaining powdered sugar (1/4 cup at a time, mixing after each addition), the brown sugar, and the flour. Add milk as needed to help with the consistency.
4. Stir in the oats (you can use more or less depending on your preferences), M&Ms, and chocolate chips.
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Simple Adaptation for Full Recipe:
1. Bake these Peanut Butter Cupcakes (with the addition of 1 cup chocolate chips).
2. Prepare Monster Cookie Dough Dip (adding 2-3 tbsp. additional milk for a more “frosting-like” consistency).
3. Top the amazing peanut butter chocolate chip cupcakes with the amazing monster cookie dough frosting.
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These look amazing. Thanks so much for sharing. I will be making them for the husband soon! YUMMY!
Sarah @feistyeats
Just four cupcakes? That’s awesome. ‘Cuz then I won’t feel so bad when I eat the whole batch (as opposed to when I eat a dozen). Anything with cookie dough…
WHOA.
oh yum, that was definitely worth the wait.
These look amazing! Pinned the recipe and your newest GFC groupie! Thanks for sharing!
So glad she emailed you and now we all benefit – YUM!
These are so creative. Love them!
Thanks for sharing on my first ever link party @ dwellonjoy.blogspot.com!
Made your monster cookie dough dip for a party last weekend – it was a huge hit, especially with the kiddos! Putting it on cupcakes is a great idea!
these look SO good. but i do not like peanut butter (or really ANY nut butter). is there something i can sub?
What about nutella? I don’t like nut butters either, but I loveee nutella.
I just made these (a full recipe) as mini cupcakes. They are fantastic. I also pinned them. Thanks for the fun, new recipe.
I just found you and am so glad I did! I (like you) spend so much time browsing the internet for new drool-worthy blogs, and yours is by far my new obsession! You have such amazing recipes and ideas and wonderful photos! I can’t wait to follow you to see what comes next!
@jilliann mmmmmmm…… I really can’t think of a great sub since these are essentially peanut butter cupcakes… BUT, if you wanted to just make the dip, you could substitute cream cheese? That would be more of an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dip, but hey! If you don’t like M&Ms, maybe that would work for you
And then if you want it on cupcakes, just make your fave yellow cake recipe to put it on!
I could eat the frosting by the spoonful. I probably wouldn’t even make the cupcakes.
What a great idea to put the dip on cupcakes!!! Of course I might just eat all the dip before it makes it to the cupcakes:-)
Somehow I can force myself to go home from work to make 4 cupcakes wtih 1 bowl much easier than I can force myself to make a whole batch! Sweet treat for me and the roommates tonight! Thanks!
These look super good!! We are so glad that you linked up to our “Strut Your Stuff Saturday”. We hope you will come back next Saturday and share another recipe! -The Sisters
this looks SO good I hope you’ll link this up at my What We Wore and Made Party over at http://raegunwear.blogspot.com/search/label/WWWMW
Wow! These look too good to be true! Pinning it now
Lori
Hmm, can’t get it to pin. Wonder why?
Lori
There are too many delicious looking desserts on your blog! I am your newest follower (visitng from TT & J) and I plan on making these cupcakes tonight!
Wow I read some of your recipes and I must say they are truly amazing!I will try making these cupcakes tomorrow, yummy yummy!!!
And I love the style of your blog. Really cool!
http://www.cookyourdream.blogspot.com
Wow I read some of your recipes and I must say they are truly amazing!I will try making these cupcakes tomorrow, yummy yummy!!!
And I love the style of your blog. Really cool!
http://www.cookyourdream.blogspot.com
Any instructions on how to maybe triple the recipe?? I was gonna make these but for a family of 5……4 cupcakes are not gonna hold up lol
Amazing! I’ve got to give these a go. Pinned!
These cupcakes looked really delicious, so my 2 best friends and I decided to spend an afternoon baking. We baked the cupcakes and they came out of the oven looking perfect, however once actually tasting the cupcakes, we discovered that contrary to their looks, they tasted disgusting. We also made the frosting which turned out looking and tasting like stale peanut butter flavored oatmeal. We thought we must have done it wrong, so we tried again and they came out even worse! This time we tried not adding the peanut butter and using less oats. They tasted like cardboard and flour (which is what the cupcakes tasted of as well), not one bit like the delicious cookie dough frosting you described. We are very disappointed in this recipe and are quite sure that you have made a mistake in the portions of ingredients to add. We do not recommend this recipe to anyone who would like to eat delicious cupcakes as shown in the pictures.
Thank you for all four of your negative comments (super classy, by the way).
In an effort to improve the recipe and find out where it may have gone wrong for you, I re-made the cupcakes this afternoon following this recipe exactly as it’s written. Just like before, they turned out delicious. The error must be on your part somewhere.
Fortunately– not a total waste of time. These desperately needed a re-shoot anyhow.
PS- I won’t be approving your other three comments. It’ll help you save face.
I have been meaning to write since I first tried this recipe. I have made these cupcakes numerous times (exactly as written, by the way) and they are beyond delicious!!! Thank you so very much for this recipe. These cupcakes make me so happy every single time I make them (I eat 2 right away and freeze the other 2) So perfect!!!!XO