These soft Frosting Filled Chocolate Chip Cookies are such a fun cookie! A surprise of sprinkles and frosting are waiting on the inside…maybe the perfect cookie!
Just when you thought I couldn’t create another chocolate chip cookie recipe OR put frosting on anything else…I decide that chocolate chip cookies needed frosting INSIDE of them. I mean, is there anything more perfect or pretty?
Combining my two favorite food groups into one sweet cookie recipe is about the most on brand idea I have ever had. Frosting filled cookies are basically a birthday party ESSENTIAL. Or really, any day you want to make a little more delicious is a time to bake these frosting filled chocolate chip cookies.
Also, sprinkles make everything happy.
How to stuff cookies with frosting…
What I did was create a thick frosting filling. I based my recipe on this Oreo Filling recipe. I tweaked it slightly, to make it a little stiffer. I didn’t want the filling to melt inside of the cookie, or ooze out while they bake.
I rolled the frosting into balls with about a teaspoon or so of the mixture and then popped them into the freezer for about an hour.
Meanwhile I made the cookie dough. I used a fairly basic recipe, but added a bit more flour so the cookie wouldn’t spread as much. Then I wrapped each frozen frosting ball with a few tablespoons of the cookie dough.
I rolled the dough into balls and placed them on a lined baking sheet to bake.
PRO TIP – Make sure the frosting is completely sealed within the cookie dough to prevent the frosting from leaking out!
They came out looking glorious…
If you prefer a flatter cookie, you can freeze the frosting into flatter discs, instead of a ball and then don’t roll the cookie dough into a ball to bake..make it more of a disc.
I tried it that way and it worked well..I just preferred a big ol’ hunka hunka frosting…
Honestly perfect!
NOTE – I originally used vegetable shortening in filling, but after testing, I have updated the recipe using butter in the frosting. It works just as well and tastes better in my opinion!
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Frosting Filled Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Prep Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Yield: 30 cookies 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Frosting Filled Chocolate Chip Cookies are such a fun cookie recipe! A surprise of sprinkles & frosting are waiting on the inside!
Ingredients
Frosting Filling
- 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 tablespoons sprinkles
Cookie Dough
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 3/4 cup flour
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- 1/3 cup sprinkles
Instructions
Frosting Filling
- Mix the butter, powdered sugar, water and vanilla together in bowl with mixer until smooth. Add in sprinkles and mix until combined.
- Roll frosting into balls using 1 teaspoon of mixture each. Place on a lined pan and freeze for 1 hour.
Cookie dough
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat and set aside.
- Mix the butter and sugar together for 2 minutes on medium speed in the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add in egg and vanilla and continue mixing until smooth, scraping sides as needed. Add in baking soda and salt and mix until combined.
- Add in flour and stir until just combined.
- Finally stir in chocolate chips and sprinkles.
- Scoop out about 2 1/2 tablespoons of cookie dough for each cookie. Form dough around frozen ball of frosting making sure to cover frosting completely and roll into a ball. Place on baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 10-11 minutes. Remove when edges begin to golden.
- Transfer to wire rack.
Notes
I enjoy these best served warm!
store airtight for up to 3 days
This recipe was originally written using vegetable shortening in the frosting instead of butter. You can still do that, but after repeat testing, I have found that butter works just as well and tastes better!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 254
- Sugar: 25 g
- Sodium: 127.1 mg
- Fat: 12.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 34.8 g
- Protein: 2.8 g
- Cholesterol: 32.7 mg
Have you ever tried to use pre-made cookie dough with these?
I haven’t!
So I just made a batch after so many people spoke to me about this recipe, I didn’t think I had time for this but, I made them and they are delicious! However, most cookies had escaping frosting. Would like to know how to perfect that. Serving them tonight at a party. Predict a hit!!
The only time I had escaped frosting was when I didn’t completely seal the dough around the frosting..like making it completely covered.
So the cookies went over well, very tasty and some of the cookies had nothing in them like the dough had absorbed the frosting! Clearly some appeared sealed but were not. I will probably make them again and see how I can perfect them. Thanks for the internet excitement!
Sneaky frosting cookies…I love it!!! Now I want all my chocolate chip cookies to be this awesome!!!!
Looks like you have a typo in your ingredient list. You have 2 cups powdered sugar listed in the cookie dough but say flour in the directions. I assume you meant flour in the ingredients 🙂
Ahh yes..good catch! I don’t know what I was doing there..must have been trying too fast! Only powdered sugar in the filling, not the cookie dough!
Would I really put powdered sugar in the dough or is that just a typo?
totally a typo! Fixed it, thanks for the catch!!
Just making sure- 2 cups of powdered sugar in the cookie dough itself? Want to try these tomorrow as they sound delish!
so sorry about that typo! NO powered sugar in the cookie dough,, only in the filling!
This is the best idea ever!! Love these!
If I wanted to make the frosting filling cream cheese frosting, how would you suggest I go about doing that?
Thanks!
I would just sub out the shortening for cream cheese, but you will need to add more powdered sugar until the mixture is able to roll into balls without being too sticky
These look freaking amazing! I happen to have some leftover white chocolate frosting in my fridge and now I know what to do with it!
brillant!