Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer Cake

This chocolate chip cookie layer cake is a chocolate chip cookie skyscraper. Prepared with homemade chocolate chip cookie dough each thick layer is softbaked and deliciously chewy. Sprinkled with mini chocolate chips and topped with chocolate peanut butter frosting this indulgent dessert is certainly a showstopper.
Ingredients
3 cups 375g allpurpose flour spooned leveled
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup 16 Tbsp 226g unsalted butter softened to room temperature

1 cup 200g packed light or dark brown sugar
12 cup 100g granulated sugar
2 large eggs at room temperature
2 and 12 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 cups 360g semisweet chocolate chips I used mini plus extra for garnish
Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting
1 cup 16 Tbsp 226g unsalted butter softened to room temperature
12 cup 130g creamy peanut butter
3 and 12 cups 420g confectioners sugar
12 cup 41g unsweetened natural or dutchprocess cocoa powder
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
12 Tablespoons milk
salt to taste
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F 177C. Grease 6inch cake pans line with parchment paper rounds then grease the parchment paper. Parchment paper helps the cakes seamlessly release from the pans. If its helpful see this parchment paper rounds for cakes video post.
Make the cookie cake Whisk the flour cornstarch baking soda and salt together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
In a large bowl using a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment beat the butter brown sugar and granulated sugar together on mediumhigh speed until smooth and creamed about 2 minutes. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat on high speed until combined about 1 minute. Scrape down the sides and up the bottom of the bowl and beat again as needed to combine.
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This chocolate chip cookie layer cake is a chocolate chip cookie skyscraper. Prepared with homemade chocolate chip cookie dough each thick layer is softbaked and deliciously chewy. Sprinkled with mini chocolate chips and topped with chocolate peanut butter frosting this indulgent dessert is certainly a showstopper.
chocolate chip cookie layer cake showing the inside
Get your tall glasses of milk ready because were making layers upon layers of chocolate chip cookies. Todays chocolate chip cookie layer cake is a taller version of our chocolate chip cookie cake. Using soft chocolate chip cookies as the starting point we simply increase the recipe to yield 5 ultrathick and chewy cookie cake layers. We tested this recipe using chewy chocolate chip