Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes with Cookie dough flavored Buttercream

SO I haven't used this Blog in 7 years, and I just started a new blog Things that Annoy Tine and so I thought I'd use this one, to post recipes, crafts, and other stuffs that don't annoy me :)

And it begins. . . .

So it was F-Bomb's Birthday and I asked "What kind of cupcakes do you want?" and she showed me a Pinterest pin with cookie dough cupcakes. . and I said "I can do that"  So here they are. I cheated a little and used a box mix, but hey they taste good and it is just quicker. Also they were for F-bomb so they had Vanilla Vodka in them. You can make them without if want or need arises.

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes with Cookie Dough flavored Butter cream

Ingredients

14 oz  Chocolate chip cookie dough. ( plus more for garnish cookies if desired)You can use the tube, bucket, or homemade. your choice)
1 box Chocolate cake mix ( you could use Vanilla or any flavor really- F-bomb wanted chocolate, so I made her chocolate)
Ingredients on the box to make the cake-(usually eggs, water and oil) I used 1C Vanilla vodka in place of the water and Applesauce in place of the oil.


Icing Ingredients

2 Sticks (1C) softened butter
1/2 C Brown sugar (packed)
2 t.  Molasses. 
1 t. Vanilla extract
5 C powdered sugar
1/4C milk.


Directions
Roll the cookie dough into 24  aprox. 15g balls of dough and freeze on a cookie sheet overnight or for at least 2 hours. The dough needs to be frozen so it doesn't get too cooked and crunch while the cupcakes bake.

Mix the cake mix according to the directions on the box. Fill each cupcake tin 2/3 of the way full with batter. Put on ball of frozen dough into each cupcake and press into the batter. Cake will bake up around cookie dough ball. Bake for 20 minutes or as long as it says on the box. Poke with a toothpick into the cake part to check or doneness. Let cool 10 minutes in pan, then completely on wire racks before icing.

Mix softened butter, brown sugar molasses and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer (or hand held mixer if you don't have a stand mixer). Add powdered sugar one cup at a time. Add milk a little bit at a time to get desired consistency of icing.

Frost cupcake, garnish with chocolate chips and/or mini chocolate chip cookies.