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Chocolate Birthday Cookies

Fudgy dark chocolate cookies studded with bits of birthday cookie crumbs, sprinkles and chunks of white chocolate.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Chill Time 8 hours
Servings 16 cookies

Ingredients

Birthday Cookie Crumbs

  • 50g or ¼ cup fine granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 45g or ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons cake flour or all purpose flour
  • ¼ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp fine sea salt
  • 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil or another flavorless oil
  • ½ tsp imitation vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons rainbow sprinkles
  • 250 g or 8.8 oz white chocolate chopped

Chocolate Cookie Recipe

  • 113g or ½ cups unsalted butter
  • 140g or ⅔ cups granulated sugar
  • 50g or ¼ cups brown sugar
  • ½ tsp fine sea salt
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 2 large egg whites
  • 140g or 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
  • 50g or ½ cup dutch process cocoa
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • About 1 cup of birthday cookie white chocolate from above

Instructions

First make the birthday cake crumbs

  • Preheat the oven to 300 F. Line a greased cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  • Whisk together the sugars, flour, salt and baking powder. Add the grapeseed oil, the vanilla and the rainbow sprinkles.
  • The mix will be crumbly; spread it out over the prepared cookie sheet in a mix of small bits and clumps the size of dimes.
  • Bake for about 20 minutes, stirring at the 10 minute mark so it browns evenly. Transfer to a plate to let cool completely. Keep the pan lined with parchment so you can make the bark on it.
  • Reserve a small handful of the white chocolate and melt the rest in the microwave in 30 second increments, stirring. When the chocolate is almost fully melted, add the reserved chocolate and stir until smooth.
  • Spread the chocolate in a thin, even layer in the parchment lined pan. Sprinkle the cookie crumbs over the chocolate. Set the tray in the freezer.

Make the cookie dough

  • Set the butter in a microwave safe bowl and heat it until it’s partially or half melted. Add the sugars and whisk until the mix is light, about 2 minutes.
  • Add the vanilla, salt, baking soda and egg whites then whisk for another 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
  • Sift in the cocoa if lumpy and add the flour, stir with a rubber spatula until the dough is well mixed. Fold in the birthday chocolate bark.
  • Cover the dough with plastic wrap and set in the fridge overnight.

The next day, bake the cookies

  • Prepare two greased cookie sheets with parchment paper. Scoop cookie dough into rounds of 1.5-2 tablespoons of dough and place onto the prepared sheet. Leave about an inch border around the dough as these will spread. Add more birthday bark to the top of the cookie dough or roll in sprinkles if desired.
  • Bake at 350 F for 10-12 minutes, until the cookies are puffy and matte in the center.
  • Store in an airtight container.

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