I recently held a charity bake sale, and I decided to try my luck at mini cookie cakes! THEY WERE A HIT! They were incredibly easy to make and most importantly: delicious.
What You Need
Here’s everything you need (minus ingredients):
Step 1: Premade Cookie Dough
I did use premade cookie dough for this recipe, and I got some hate on TikTok for doing so lol. You can absolutely make your own dough, but to make my life easier, I used store bought dough. Since these cakes were for charity, people were happy to donate!
Step 2: Weighing Your Cookie Dough
I used this food scale to weigh ~5 ounces of cookie dough per 4×4 container.
Step 3: Place Dough in Containers
Spray your pans with cooking spray, and add dough to pans. I found it best to not press the dough all the way to the edge of the pan (shown above). This gave a more flat bake, which made it easier to decorate.
Step 4: Bake Cookie Cakes
Bake for approximately 20 minutes . Your bake time may vary depending on your oven/how many cookie cakes are on your pan/etc. Make sure the cakes cool completely before icing.
Step 5: Make Buttercream
This buttercream recipe is so easy, not too sweet, easy to decorate with, and tastes delicious! The video above shows the consistency you should expect.
Step 6: Decorate Cookie Cakes
I ordered this icing piping kit from Amazon and decorated the cookie cakes as shown above! You can switch up the sprinkles depending on your theme or holiday! Click here for my favorite sprinkles from Amazon!
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat oven to 350 F
- Using a food scale, weigh 5 oz of cookie dough per container.
- Spray pans with cooking spray. Press dough into pans. Tip: don't press the dough all the way to the edge of the pans – this will give you a flatter cookie cake during baking.
- Place containers on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes (keep an eye on them – you may need more/less time depending on your oven/how many cakes you have on each baking sheet)
- Let cakes cool completely before icing!
- Add butter to mixer. Mix on medium speed for 8-10 minutes. Scrape the bowl about halfway through, if needed. Butter should be pale in color after mixing.
- Add half of the powdered sugar, half of the heavy cream, all the vanilla, and all the salt. Mix on low until just combined.
- Add remaining powdered sugar and heavy cream. Mix on low until combined.
- Scrape down sides of bowl. Mix on medium speed for 10 minutes. Avoid stopping your mixer during this time, if possible.
- Pipe icing onto cooled cookie cakes. Top with sprinkles, if desired. Enjoy!