These little bites of awesome are something I thought about doing a couple of years ago when I felt like I was seeing whoopie pies everywhere. Honestly, I’ve always felt like whoopie pies looked like a lot of trouble to make (I know, probably not), but I figured these cookies looked like the start of a whoopie pie and well, cookie dough goes well with almost everything, so boom! these chocolate cookies with chocolate chip cookie dough in the middle.
Whatever had been my expectation for these little guys was waaaay exceeded. My fear was that they would be too sweet, but honestly they’re perfect because the chocolate cookies are not overly sweet and the cookie dough gives it that nice sweet kick without overwhelming you. Also, can we discuss how darn cute they are?!!! Little handheld bites of wonderful. These were a huge hit at my office, comments of ‘evil genius’ and ‘you’re so bad for making these’ were made, buuut I’ll take them as compliments 🙂
Let’s make some chocolate cookies, start with some cream cheese…
Cream your cream cheese…
Then add your butter…
Then add your egg…
Mix, mix, mix
Then add your cake mix…
Look at that beautiful cookie dough…
Chill your cookie dough, then roll into balls then roll in powdered sugar…
All ready to go in the oven…
Now for the chocolate chip cookie dough, let’s start with some butter…
Cream your butter, now add your brown sugar…
Add your flour and vanilla…
Add your sweetened condensed milk–look at all of that deliciousness..
Mix
We will pretend there is a picture of the mini chocolate chips before I mixed them in 🙂
After the cookies are cooled, place your cookie dough in between 2 delicious cookies and enjoy…
Soo good y’all!
- 1 Box of Chocolate Cake Mix.
- 1 (8 Ounce) Block of Cream Cheese, Softened.
- 1 Stick of Butter, Softened.
- 1 Egg.
- Powdered Sugar for Rolling.
- 1 Stick of Butter, Softened.
- 3/4 Cup of Brown Sugar, Packed.
- 2 Cups of Plain Flour.
- 1 (14 Ounce) Can Sweetened Condensed Milk.
- 1 Teaspoon of Vanilla.
- With a handheld or stand mixer with paddle attachment, cream your cream cheese until smooth.
- Then add your butter and mix again.
- Now add the egg, blend thoroughly and add your chocolate cake mix and blend until all ingredients are well incorporated--this batter will be thick.
- Cover your bowl and chill your chocolate cookie dough for 2 hours in your fridge or 1 hour in your freezer--which is what I did.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F when your cookie dough is close to being chilled thoroughly.
- With a spoon or small cookie dough scoop, roll out your chocolate cookie dough to about 1" balls in your hands then roll them completely in the powdered sugar, place on your cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes--do not over bake you want them gooey--I made precisely 30 cookies with this recipe or 15 sliders.
- Take out of the oven and let them cool completely before putting cookie dough on them.
- With a handheld or stand mixer with paddle attachment cream your butter, then add your brown sugar and blend together completely.
- Now add your flour, vanilla and sweetened condensed milk and blend well.
- Now add your chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
- With a spoon or your fingers--what I used--scoop out the cookie dough, place on your chocolate cookie then gently press the cookie dough until it is evenly placed on the bottom chocolate cookie then place the chocolate cookie for the top of the slider.
- Now enjoy!
- I recommend a small cookie dough or small ice cream scoop to scoop out the chocolate cookie dough to ensure that the cookies are evenly sized.
- You may use regular sized chocolate chips that you chop up if you do not have mini chocolate chips.