You are the Cookie On My Cupcake. ♥

I am Amanda Cupcake, and I've been hiding the cookie monster within me for far too long.

I love cookies.

I can probably eat more cookie dough than you can imagine. ♥ It's all gone before I even realize.

So I am in big trouble.

And you might be too.

For one, the word cookie is so cute.
Cookie.

Say it.

It draws you in.

Now say "Snickerdoodle Cookie". (so cute, right)?

Add some edible sparkles and call it a "Sparkledoodle".

Awwww. ♥

Now add your Sparkledoodles to a creamy dreamy white swirl of heavenly frosting fluffed like a dream on top of a vanilla cinnamon cupcake.

A Sparkledoodle Cupcake!

♥

A cookie to add to my cupcake.

Cherry Chip Chocolate Chip Cookies with Cherry Red Velvet Cupcakes too ♥

My cupcake darlings, it is up to you to decide how you will eat these cupcakes!

Cookie First, then Cupcake?
Use the cookie as a scoop to eat the frosting?

Or pretend it's your first birthday and eat the whole thing at once?!

♥

Recipe for Cherry Chip Chocolate Chip Cookies:

(Adapted from Forme-Foryou chocolate chip cookie recipe!)

Dry Ingredients:

2 Cups Minus 2 Tablespoons of Cake Flour

1 2/3 Cups Bread Flour

1 1/4 tsp Baking Soda

1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1 1/2 tsp coarse sea salt or kosher salt

Creaming Ingredients:

1 1/4 Cups Unsalted Butter

1 1/4 Cups Brown Sugar

1 Cup + 2 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar

2 Eggs (large)

2 Tsp Vanilla Extract

My little magical addition:

1 Bag of Mini Chocolate Chips

1 Bag of Cherry Chips

A *hint* of almond extract.

This is how magical it is:

1.  Combine your Cake Flour, Bread Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, and Salt in one bowl. Whisk together.

2.  In your stand mixer, Cream Room Temperature Butter with Brown Sugar & Granulated Sugar.

3.  Gradually add eggs and vanilla.

4.  Now gradually add your dry ingredients to the blend, and you have cookie dough.

4.  When you add your chips to the cookie dough use, a spatula to mix in-you don't need to use a mixer attachment.

5.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

6.  Using a small cookie scoop, scoop little mounds of cookie dough onto your cookie sheet. Make sure they are spaced out enough so they have room to puff ♥. 

5.  Bake for appx 10-15 minutes at a preheated 350 degrees (ovens vary so just watch to see if the tops of the cookies turn slightly golden. I like my cookies somewhat underbaked so they stay really soft as they cool).

Tip: There are rumors that this cookie tastes *BEST* when cooled for 24-36 hours and then baked. I think they are wonderful either way.

Megpops ♥

I know a pretty lady named Meg.

She makes the best cookies on the planet.

She is married to my photographer friend Dan Woolf.

Last week when I visited them for another cupcake photo shoot, Meg fed me the yummiest butterscotch chip & chocolate chunk cookies.

Ok. let's back track. Before she baked the cookies, she took out her *persimmon* kitchen aid mixer. I loved the color and even complimented her on it.

While she was mixing up the batter, she fed me big chunks of her fresh amazzzazing cookie dough on a spoon.

She sent me home with a beautifully wrapped bag of about 8 gigantic delicious cookies.

I devoured a few of them...but this is what I did with the rest.

I call them Meg Pops.

The "M" is for Megan.

The inside is Megan's butterscotch cookie combined with a little of my white cake and cream cheese frosting.

Instead of eating this off of a stick like a regular cake pop, I used a spoon. Inspired by the spoonfuls of chunky amazing heavenly cookie dough I ate straight from her persimmon colored Kitchen Aid Mixer.

I tried my best to make the "M" for Megan *persimmon* colored to match her Kitchen Aid Mixer.

Megpops are simple and fun to make.

Megpop Ingredients:

•  Cookies (If you are lucky they'll be Meg's cookies)
• Wooden Spoons (You can get them at craft stores in the kiddo aisle)
• Or..if you want to be really festive you can find some decorative vintage looking spoons!
• Frosting of your choice
• Candy Melts
• Butterscotch chips (or chips of your choice)
• Parchment Paper
• Cookie Sheet
• A bowl or a melting pot for your candy wafers
• Great Memories of Delicious Cookie Making for Inspiration.

Directions:
1.  Select a medium or large bowl for your cookie brew. (Hopefully it is colorful and fun, like Meg's persimmon Kitchen Aid Mixer).
2.  Crumble up your cookies.
3.  Throw in about a spoonful of your favorite frosting (don't worry if it feels too dry you can always add more).
4.  Mix all the cookie crumbs and frosting together with delight.
5.  Form into cake pop balls and set on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
6.  Now freeze. (not you..the cake pops)! For about 20-25 minutes.
7.  Use a melting pot if you have one and melt your candy wafers. If you don't have a melting pot, you can melt your candy wafers carefully in a pot on the stove while stirring continuously.  Or you can use a deep bowl and melt the wafers in the microwave in 30 second increments. (stirring in between until melted & smooth).
8.  Set up a clean sheet of parchment paper on your countertop (this is where you'll put your finished megpops).
9.  Take the cake pops out of the freezer. They are ready to be dipped. ♥
10.  Dip your cake pop in the melted chocolate using a lollypop stick or a spoon.
11.  Quickly set the cake pop down on your parchment paper and remove the lollypop stick while it is still soft.
12. Use the melted chocolate as your "glue" to attach your spoon to the cake pop as shown in the photos above ♥
13. Add excess-think cookie dough! Chocolate Chunks, Butterscotch chips, more melted chocolate, disco dust, anything your heart desires.
14.  Let dry.  Once they are dry, you can lift the little pops of wonderful off of your parchment paper with the spoon!

Somehow using a spoon just makes it all seem more sinful. ♥ And wonderful. 

The Megpops were so much fun that I kinda went crazy and made some more cake pops with a wooden spoon instead of a stick. So very indulgent.

A cake pop made with strawberry pie crust, strawberry chunks, and strawberry cake.

Cake pops with oreos inside.

See, they really are spoons!