Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

So I am a Pinterest junkie, and I have no problem admitting it.  Today I tried out a cupcake recipe.  They are chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes.   All of my children loved the icing and the cookie on top.  As for the cake, they are not sure about it.  As for me, I didn't mind anything about this cupcake.  The cake is a little buttery.  But there is like 9 sticks of butter in this recipe.  Overall, I would eat these, but if my kids don't like it there isn't much point making them since I don't need to eat 24 cupcakes!  Here is a link to the recipe.. leave me a comment if you try it out!

http://www.beantownbaker.com/2011/03/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-cupcakes.html

My Cupcake List

Well after all of my cupcakes, now it is diet time!!!  But they were great!  And I can't wait till I get to go back for more!

Here are my top three from each place.

Gigi's

1) Red Velvet

2) Chocolate Midnight Magic

3) White Midnight Magic .

Pinkitzel

1) Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

2) Chocolate Malt

3) Chocolate Truffle

If you have tried either place, leave me a comment on what I should get next!

Gigi's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Since I am in LOVE with Pinkitzel's chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake, I decided to try Gigi's (http://www.gigiscupcakesusa.com/). Gigi's stores are very different than Pinkitzel's. There is no candy store, just cupcakes, fairly small but cute. The staff was very friendly also. So I got one of their chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes. And it was also very different than Pinkitzel's. The icing was a chocolate color, with mini chocolate chips on top also with a cookie.  The icing was very good, sweet and fluffy. I enjoyed the icing.  The cookie on top was hard, I am not sure if that was from it being old or not.  Maybe over cooked.  The cupcake was more like a muffin to me.  It wasn't sweet.  It was good and moist, but it didn't seem like a cupcake, so the icing with it, just didn't work for me.  I would like to eat both of them just not together. 

 And look how cute their boxes are!  :)

Pinkitzel's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

This is Pinkitzel's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough cupcake.  Instant favorite!!!  I LOVE this cupcake.  To me, this cupcake is perfect.  The cake is a chcolate cake that is moist and wonderful.  Inside the cake is cookie dough, and it is like heaven!  The cake and the dough are very good together.  The icing is fluffy and sweet, but not too sweet.  With mini chocolate chips on top and a chocolate chip cookie.  Even the cookie on top was moist.     My birthday was recently and all I wanted for my birthday was this cupcake.... so one dozen cupcakes is what I got... and no I didn't eat them all alone (I had to share with my little ones and they approve of this cupcake too).  I highly recommend this cupcake, if you like chocolate, you will love this cupcake!

Pinkitzel Cookies and Cream Cupcake

Here is one of the first cupcakes I got when I went to Pinkitzel!  It looks so cute!  I love the little wrapper around each cupcake.  This cupcake is a cookies and cream.  It has a mini Oreo on top.  The cake is a chocolate cake, that is very moist and super good.  The icing is the cookies and cream part, which I think it could of used a little more cookie part.  But the icing was sweet, fluffy, and creamy.  Overall, a very good cupcake.  I would buy it again!