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Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Frosting

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Frosting is everything the name touts! It is peanut butter, it is cookie dough, and it is all in frosting form. Chocolate chips finish this frosting off, adding the perfect texture. You can layer it on brownies, cupcakes, cakes, or eat it with a spoon!

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So let’s talk about cookie dough frosting. This Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting is hands down one of my absolute favorite frostings. I am a sucker for anything cookie dough and this frosting just might top the list of my favorite cookie dough treats. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting is every bit as delectable as the original, but loaded with peanut butter. My Cowboy was a little enraptured by it :).

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Frosting from butterloveandcowboys.com

Because brownies are my favorite thing to eat Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Frosting with, I am also going to show you where to go for my favorite brownie recipe. You can find it by clicking here. It is a moist, fudge-y, chocolate-y, and butter-y brownie. I have searched high and low for years to find my favorite brownie recipe and this is it! It is the same brownie as is pictured in these photos. It is easy and so fast, no mixer is required!

The brownie may appear a little drowned out, because we love lots of frosting :). The 1:1 ratio is about perfect for me. Fortunately, My Cowboy feels the same way about frosting as I do. Just anther reason we are a match made in heaven.

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Frosting from butterloveandcowboys.com

I feel confident this frosting will please the lovers of peanut butter and cookie dough out there. Let me know what you think! I hope you love this recipe as much as I do and enjoy slathering it on whatever treat you choose, however thick or thin you like. So you know, eating it on a spoon really is a good option ;).

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Frosting
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Frosting is loaded with chocolate chips and infused with peanut butter flavor. It is perfect for brownies, cupcakes, cake, or a spoon!
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Ingredients
  1. 1/2 cup butter, soft
  2. 1 cup peanut butter
  3. 2/3 cup brown sugar
  4. 1 teaspoon vanilla
  5. 1/2 cup flour
  6. 3 cups powdered sugar
  7. cream or milk, as needed, for consistency (I prefer cream, but either works)
  8. 1 cup milk chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Cream the butter, peanut butter, and brown sugar 1-2 minutes. Add the vanilla and mix another minute. Next, add the flour and mix well. Add the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, mixing well between each addition. Mix in cream or milk, as needed, until the frosting is the texture you like. I usually add 2-4 tablespoons. Fold in chocolate chips. Enjoy this frosting on brownies, cake, cupcakes, cookies, or by the spoonful! Refrigerate leftovers.
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No-Bake

Edible Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Edible Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is the perfect combination of fall flavors and chocolate. It is so quick and easy to throw together and is so tasty! 

I know I can’t be alone when it comes to a love of cookie dough. Don’t get me wrong, because I love hot cookies! Regardless of that deep and sincere love I feel, sometimes I encounter this problem. Maybe you have encountered it too? You know the problem where you are so full of cookie dough that by the time the cookies are baked, you aren’t hungry for hot cookies anymore?

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I mean, come on, you’ve got this rad cookie dough sitting in front of you and the cookies are in the oven. What’s a girl to do?  It’s just a big, fat dilemma to me sometimes.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough will totally eradicate that dilemma for the day, because naturally, you don’t need to worry about the whole baking part. You completely skip that step and just get to eating. Now that is my kind of recipe!

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This is it- my first pumpkin recipe of the season. It is an exciting post for me, because I adore all things fall and especially fall dessert! Not to mention all things pumpkin. There are many flavors out there when it comes to edible cookie dough. The most common tends to be chocolate chip. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is just like it, but with a touch of pumpkin, not too much, and a couple of common fall spices-cinnamon and nutmeg. 

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough from butterloveandcowboys.com

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough from butterloveandcowboys.com

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough from butterloveandcowboys.com

If straight cookie dough is too sweet for you, I highly recommend treating this recipe as a dip for Oreo’s or graham crackers!

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Edible Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Serves 6
Edible Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is the perfect combination of fall flavors and chocolate. It is quick to throw together and is so tasty!
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Prep Time
5 min
Prep Time
5 min
Ingredients
  1. 1/2 cup butter, soft
  2. 1 cup brown sugar, packed
  3. 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
  4. 1 teaspoon vanilla
  5. 2 cups flour
  6. 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  7. 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  8. 3-4 tablespoons milk or cream
  9. 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
  10. 1/4 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Cream the butter and sugar several minutes, until light an fluffy. Add pumpkin and vanilla. Mix well for about one minute. Add about half of the flour and all the cinnamon and nutmeg. Gradually add the rest of the flour. Add milk or cream until desired consistency is reached. I prefer a softer consistency so I added all of the cream. Fold in milk chocolate chips and white chocolate chips. Refrigerate leftovers. Enjoy!
  2. *If straight cookie dough is too sweet for you, it would taste great as dip for Oreo's or graham crackers!
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Brownies and Bars, No-Bake

No-Bake Cookie Dough Bars

No-Bake Cookie Dough Bars are a rich treat that will heavily satisfy any sweet tooth. They are yet another great way to enjoy cookie dough. In addition to tastiness, these simple bars come together in a cinch. A sweet cookie dough filling is topped with a chocolate and peanut butter mixture that will make you want to sing.

Cookie Dough Bars from butterloveandcowboys.com

Cookie Dough Bars from butterloveandcowboys.com

It’s that time of year again-you know, the time where we frantically search for ways to avoid turning on the oven. These Cookie Dough Bars will happily comply with your heat-free request. The topping can even be whipped up using the microwave. I know it and you know it-these Cookie Dough Bars have the potential to become one of your best friends this summer.

Cookie Dough Bars from butterloveandcowboys.com

Cookie Dough Bars from butterloveandcowboys.com

Cookie Dough Bars from butterloveandcowboys.com

Cookie Dough Bars from butterloveandcowboys.com

Cookie Dough Bars from butterloveandcowboys.com

In the mood for even more cookie dough? These cookie dough frosted brownies are another fantastic way to eat cookie dough, with or without the brownie!

No-bake Cookie Dough Bars
Serves 9
No-Bake Cookie Dough Bars are a rich treat that will heavily satisfy any sweet tooth. A simple cookie dough filling is topped with a chocolate and peanut butter mixture that will make you want to sing.
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Cookie Dough Filling
  1. 1/2 cup butter
  2. 3/4 cup brown sugar
  3. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  4. 2 cups flour
  5. 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
  6. 2 cups milk chocolate chips
Topping
  1. 1 cup peanut butter
  2. 3/4 cup milk chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. 1. Grease a 9x9 inch pan. To prepare the cookie dough filling, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and mix. Alternately add the flour and sweetened condensed milk. Fold in the chocolate chips.
  2. 2. For the topping, micowave the peanut butter and chocolate chips in increments of 30 seconds at a power level of 60 percent, until melted. Stir in between each thirty second increment. Spread the topping on top of the bars. Chill bars for about one hour or until the topping is firm. You can pop them in the freezer to chill more quickly. These bars keep best covered and refrigerated. Enjoy!
Adapted from Life's Simple Measures
Adapted from Life's Simple Measures
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Brownies and Bars

Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies

Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies are such a great go-to bar! Brownies are always a win and cookie dough frosting is so delicious. Any day that includes fudge-y brownies topped with creamy frosting is always a good day and I can’t say enough about this frosting! It basically rocked my world and what I thought I knew about frosting, in a good way.

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Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies became a favorite of mine a few years ago. I generally avoid making the same treat over and over in a sequential fashion, but once my taste buds landed on this frosting, I just couldn’t help myself! It was too good, most especially for a cookie dough lover. I made many batches within the following month or two. 

Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies from butterloveandcowboys.com

There is nothing like cookies hot out of the oven, but I’m not a huge fan of cold cookies, ya know, unless they are covered in frosting. Whenever I bake cookies around here, I usually bake just enough for what we plan to eat, refrigerate or freeze the rest of the cookie dough, and pull it out when we are ready for another batch of hot cookies. I guess I’m a little high maintenance that way, but if the cookies aren’t warm, I’d rather have the dough! 

I may go as far as to say Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies are even better than cookie dough.  The frosting is light and fluffy and absolutely perfect to pile on any treat you want- brownies, cookies, cake, or just eat it plain.

I really like doing that too.

With a spoon.

Or a fork. 

Spatula’s totally work too.

Or whatever utensil is easiest to grab. 

Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies from butterloveandcowboys.com

Cookie Dough Brownies from butterloveandcowboys.com

Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies from butterloveandcowboys.com

Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies from butterloveandcowboys.com

Go ahead, make ’em, I dare ya! If cookie dough frosting changes your life as much as it did mine, let me know. I feel quite certain that it will :).

Happy frosting!

Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies
Cookie Dough Frosted Brownies are a fudge-y brownie topped with the most delicious cookie dough frosting! Light, fluffy, and flavorful, this frosting is the perfect way to enjoy cookie dough.
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For the Brownies
  1. 1 cup butter, melted
  2. 2 cups sugar
  3. 4 eggs
  4. 1 teaspoon vanilla
  5. 1 cup flour
  6. 3/4 cup cocoa powder
  7. 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  8. 1/4 teaspoon salt
For the Cookie Dough Frosting
  1. 1/2 cup butter, soft
  2. 2/3 cup brown sugar
  3. 1 teaspoon vanilla
  4. 1/2 cup flour
  5. 2 1/2-3 cups powdered sugar
  6. *cream or milk, as needed for consistency
  7. 1 cup milk chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven at 350 degrees F. Make the brownies by combining melted butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl. In a separate bowl combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients. Mix until just incorporated. Do not over-mix! Bake 30-35 minutes. I prefer brownies a touch underdone rather than overdone. Let cool completely.
  2. For the frosting, place the butter, brown sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer and combine well. Add the flour and mix. Add the powdered sugar one cup at a time, mixing well between each addition. Add cream or milk as needed. I usually use about 3-4 tablespoons. Cream another minute or two. Add in the chocolate chips and mix until just combined, or fold in with a spatula. Frost cooled brownies. You may not want to use all of the frosting. I do as I love thick frosting, but frost the brownies to your preference. Enjoy!
Notes
  1. *I prefer using cream, because it adds a little richer flavor, but use whatever you have.
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Cakes and Cupcakes

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake from Butter, Love, and Cowboys
By | On April 26,17 | 0 Comment

We are cheesecake lovers around here. My Cowboy and myself rate cheesecake as one of our top desserts! We like all different kinds too. I have yet to come across a flavor of cheesecake I didn’t find worth eating. This Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake is no exception. 

About a year in a half ago, my brother and his wife introduced us to The Cheesecake Factory. I had heard good things about it, but the closest one to us is in Salt Lake City, two hours away from where we live, so we had never made a special trip to eat there. While we were visiting them, they invited us to come along with them to try it out. 

It was fantastic.

The food was really good and we had some delicious entree’s there, but the cheesecake. It was a cheesecake lover’s dream! They have so many different flavors. We decided even though The Cheesecake Factory is a ways away from where we live, it is worth the occasional trek to enjoy this tasty restaurant. 

For our fifth anniversary, about a month ago, we were in Salt Lake for the weekend. Needless to say, we made it to The Cheesecake Factory. Twice. Our second visit was just for some more cheesecake though 🙂 

 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake from Butter, Love, and Cowboys

After that weekend trip where we indulged in The Cheesecake Factory’s cheesecake twice, I continued to crave cheesecake. So while we were still on our cheesecake high, I decided to make this bad boy. It totally fulfilled that craving. My sister and her family were visiting us for the weekend so she directed me to this delicious recipe. 

First we have a simple graham cracker crust. You can use an Oreo crust if you like, but I really liked this cheesecake with a graham cracker bottom. We fill that crust with a classic cheesecake filling. Next we enrich the filling with a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough. To top it off, we add a smooth covering of chocolate ganache.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake from Butter, Love, and Cowboys

I simply adore a layer of ganache on a cheesecake. 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake from Butter, Love, and Cowboys

Check out that cookie dough.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake from Butter, Love, and Cowboys

As much as we love cheesecake, we love cookie dough too. The combination of those two loves makes Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake a serious treat for us. 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake from Butter, Love, and Cowboys

 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake from Butter, Love, and Cowboys

 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake from Butter, Love, and Cowboys

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake from Butter, Love, and Cowboys

 

The moral of the story is; if you like cheesecake make a trip to your nearest Cheesecake Factory at least once! And to get your cheesecake fix in between visits, make this cheesecake 🙂

I promise it hits the spot.

Recipe adapted from Taste of Home.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheeecake
An indulgent and satisfying cheesecake, stuffed with cookie dough and topped with a chocolate ganache.
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For the crust
  1. 9 whole graham crackers, crushed
  2. 1/3 cup butter, melted
  3. 3 tablespoons sugar
For the cheesecake filling
  1. 3 (8 oz) packages cream cheese
  2. 1 1/2 cups sugar
  3. 1 cup sour cream
  4. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  5. 3 eggs, lightly beaten
For the cookie dough
  1. 1/3 cup butter
  2. 1/3 cup sugar
  3. 1/3 cup brown sugar
  4. 1 tablespoon water
  5. 1 teaspoon vanilla
  6. 1/2-2/3 cup flour
  7. 1 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips, divided
For the ganache
  1. 1 cup chocolate chips (we prefer 3/4 milk, 1/4 dark).
  2. 1/4-1/3 cup cream
For the crust
  1. 1. Preheat oven at 350 F. Grease a 9-inch spring form pan. Combine crushed graham crackers, melted butter, and three tablespoons sugar. Mix until combined and press into pan. Bake for ten minutes.
For the cheesecake filling
  1. 1. Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add sour cream and vanilla. Mix well. Add the eggs and beat on low until just combined. Pour over graham cracker crust.
For the cookie dough
  1. 1. Cream butter and sugars. Add water, then vanilla, and combine. Add flour. If it is too wet after adding 1/2 cup of flour, add up to 2/3 cup. It will be fairly sticky. Fold in 1 cup chocolate chips.
  2. 2. Drop by teaspoon-fulls over cheesecake filling. Gently push the dough beneath the surface of the cheesecake filling.
  3. 3. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup of chocolate chips on top of the cheesecake and gently press them in.
  4. 4. Place spring form pan on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool completely.
For the ganache
  1. Pour chocolate chips into a heatproof bowl. Heat cream in the microwave until hot. I start out with 1/4 cup cream, but if it is too thick will add up to 1/3 cup of cream until I reach the consistency I want. Pour cream over chocolate chips and whisk until smooth. May need to place it in the microwave for thirty more seconds. Spread over cooled cheesecake. Refrigerate until ganache is set and serve! Cover and refrigerate leftovers.
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