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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cake

This peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough cake is NUTS — literally, there is a LOT of peanut butter involved. But it’s also just over-the-top bonkers. Three layers of chocolate chip cookie dough cake sandwiched by peanut butter marshmallow filling and covered in cookie dough frosting. Can you even deal?! This is not a cake…

Cinnamon Roll Cookies

Cinnamon Roll Cookies are chewy cinnamon cookies mixed with a cinnamon streusel and topped with a swirl of icing. A cinnamon roll in cookie form. At my high school, you have to take one gym class to get gym credit (because it is also a health class) and the rest of the three credits can…

Oatmeal Cookie Brownies

Oatmeal cookies are combined with fudgy brownies to make Oatmeal Cookie Brownies, possibly the most comforting recipe ever created. This week on The Batter Thickens, we’re experimenting with nuclear physics. Ok no, we’re totally not. Are you kidding?? You wanna talk butter and sugar reactions? I’m your girl. Nuclear reactions? Yeah… that’s outta my league. Big…

Fruit Loops Cupcakes

All part of a complete breakfast! With Fruit Loops blended right into the frosting, one bite of these Fruit Loops Cupcakes will transport you straight back to childhood. They taste so much like the cereal you might be tempted to eat them for breakfast. A perfect for kids birthdays or a fun baking project. …

Nutella Peanut Butter Marshmallow Cupcakes

We call these Nutella Peanut Butter Marshmallow Cupcakes “Childhood Supreme Sandwich Cupcakes” because they have all the ingredients of a kid’s ideal sandwich: Nutella, peanut butter, and marshmallow fluff. These cupcakes are perfect for kids, or for the child in all of us. Do you ever get writer’s block? I’m pretty sure everyone above the…

Giant Cinnamon Rolls

These Giant Cinnamon Rolls are big enough to last a whole morning of slowly picking them apart piece-by-piece while sipping a never-ending cup of coffee and reading a delicious book. Stuffed with cinnamon filling and smothered in buttermilk icing, they’ll satisfy your craving for a sweet morning treat. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that…

New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies Frozen Cool Whip Sandwiches

Have you ever baked the chocolate chip cookies off the bag of chocolate chips? The go-to, ever faithful and delicious classic? Or maybe you have your own classic chocolate chip cookie recipe that you always use? Maybe something sentimental from your childhood of coming home to your mother’s freshly baked cookies? Well, forget about…

Strawberry Cookie Dough Ice Cream

Strawberry Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a creamy vanilla ice cream base with big cookie dough chunks and frozen bits of fresh strawberry. Fresh and indulgent all at once. I go to a small school. But what we lack in size, we make up for in quality. Of academics, of campus culture, campus aesthetics, extracurricular…

Butterscotch Chocolate Cupcakes

I don’t know about you, but for me butterscotch is one of those flavors that is easily forgotten, easily overlooked, and easily overdosed. It’s good…but it’s not that good. These Butterscotch Chocolate Cupcakes beg to differ. For all the reasons listed above, my expectations for these Butterscotch Chocolate Cupcakes were not that high….

Root Beer Float Cupcakes

Have you ever tried putting root beer in chocolate cake? Because it’s good. Like really good. We’ve made these Root Beer Float Cupcakes before, for my brother’s first day of school last year. I thought, “Oh maybe these will be good. I like root beer.” Well they were amazing. …

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