I have to admit- they were REALLY time consuming. In fact, I had to break the project up into two parts, taking two days. There were four parts to this cupcake- a cookie garnish, the actual cupcake, the filling, and the frosting. All the details on the recipe can be found here.
In a nutshell, here's how this project went down:
First, bake up some chocolate chip cookies. You could actually do this first, or last, it doesn't matter. I just chose this to be my first step. Since this recipe was so time consuming in general, I cheated here and strayed from the recipe. I used Nestle Tollhouse Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough- Break and Bake style :) At Annie Eat's, she has what is supposed to be a fantastic chocolate chip cookie you could adorn these cupcakes with.
Next, mix up the cupcake batter, find some cute cupcake liners (mine are yet again from Michael's) and bake the cupcakes.
Then, it's time to work on the filling. And once the cupcakes are fully cooled, and the filling is chilled a bit, fill the cupcakes up. I chose to use a very small biscuit cutter to carve the center of the cupcakes out. If you don't have one, you could also use a small paring knife and just cut the center out. I typically like to use a decorating tip and pastry bag to fill my cupcakes, but since the filling has chocolate chips in it, that would not work this time. Also, you can either put the top you've cut out back on top, or just leave it off. I tried it both ways. Either way will work.
Once the cupcakes are filled, it's time to frost them! After you frost them, sprinkle some mini chocolate chips on top and adorn with the yummy chocolate chip cookies. Then, quickly devour one just to be sure they taste as good as they look!
These cupcakes are seriously yummy and very different than the cupcakes I normally make. In fact, my normally hard to impress husband told me these were his favorite cupcakes to date. I guess any recipe with 6 1/2 sticks of butter can't go wrong!
xoxo,
Katie
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