A soft and chewy sugar cookie cake filled with sprinkles and topped with a creamy vanilla frosting.
The cookie cake is so simple to throw together, so much easier than making individual cookies. You mix up the dough and since there's no chilling required, it goes right into the pan and straight into the oven. Frosting the edges is obviously optional, but for me, totally necessary. What's a cookie cake without frosting? Just a huge cookie. Which isn't bad but.. frosting.
I used my favorite vanilla frosting for the edges. It is essentially a vanilla buttercream frosting but not sickeningly sweet. It compliments the sweet sugar cookie so well! The cookie cake itself is perfectly soft and chewy - just how a cookie cake should be.
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Why you'll love this recipe
- Such a cute and delicious addition to any occasion - especially birthdays!
Ingredient Notes
- Vanilla pudding mix: You will only be using the powder, not preparing the pudding. This ingredient helps to give the cookie cake more of a "funfetti" taste!
- Sprinkles: I recommend using the kind you see in my photos "jimmies" not non-pareils as they can bleed while baking.
See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions.
Substitutions & Variations
- Frosting: Use a chocolate frosting instead from my chocolate chip cookie cake recipe.
Top the frosted edges with some sprinkles for extra fun and serve this cookie cake at your next party!
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📋 Recipe
Funfetti Sugar Cookie Cake
Ingredients
Funfetti Cookie Cake
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3.4 oz vanilla pudding mix, powder ONLY
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tbs vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- pinch salt
- 1 cup sprinkles
Vanilla Frosting
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 ¼ cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5-7 tbs heavy cream
- pinch salt, or to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 10" springform pan with parchment paper and grease well with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
For the cookie cake
- In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix butter and sugar together unitl combined. Add egg, egg yolk and vanilla, and pudding mix and beat until fully incorporated. Add flour, baking soda and salt, stirring until just combined. Do not over-mix. Add 1 cup sprinkles and stir by hand with a rubber spatula.
- Pat dough down into prepared baking pan and bake for 20-25 minutes until the edges are slightly golden and the top doesn't look "wet" anymore.
For the frosting
- Beat butter until smooth. Add powdered sugar and beat in vanilla and heavy cream 1 tbs at a time as needed to create a creamy consistency. Add salt to taste. Beat frosting for 3 minutes or until light and fluffy.
- When cookie cake is done, place pan on a wire rack and immediately remove outer ring of springform pan to prevent the edges from browning any further - release edges with a butter knife if needed.
- Allow cookie cake to cool completely before piping the edges with frosting. You can also just spread the frosting on top of the entire cake. Top frosting with remaining 2 tbs sprinkles.
Notes
Nutrition
The provided nutritional information is an estimate per serving. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Patricia L Garrett says
Can you bake this recipe in a 14-inch pizza pan with holes in the bottom. Would you have to double the recipe. And how long would you bake it.
Patricia says
Going to make this for my grandson,s birthday, in April.
Kate says
Made this over the weekend for my daughter's birthday. We all LOVED it. Such great flavor and so easy. My other daughter asked for it for her next birthday. Thank you!
Jessica says
Aww, that's so great to hear! 🙂 Thanks so much for letting me know, Kate!
Jessica says
Yes!!