Weigh out the ingredients
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You'll need flour, baking powder, salt, butter, brown sugar, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and chocolate chips.
Make the brown butter
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Make the brown butter by heating unsalted butter over medium heat until the milk solids separate and turn golden.
Whisk together the cooled brown butter & sugars, then mix in the eggs & vanilla, and fold in the dry ingredients. Lastly, fold in the chocolate chips.
Make the batter
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Transfer the batter to an 8" cake pan, and smooth out the top. Sprinkle more chocolate chips on top, then bake!
Bake!
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Allow the cookie cake to cool completely in the pan before removing.
Cool
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Decorate the cooled cookie cake with buttercream as desired.
Decorate!
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Enjoy this gooey cookie cake with a big glass of milk!
Enjoy!
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