Sweet as a cupcake.

My college roommate came into town for the weekend, and, since her birthday is next week, we obviously needed to eat a lot of cake and/or cupcakes. Along with many similarities, we share an intense love of cake, and the two of us have quite a history of good cake eating in college (we once ate an abandoned cake in the kitchen on her dorm floor, but we knew the birthday boy so it's okay). Though I considered ordering treats from one of Chicago's delicious cupcakeries, I decided to try out my own recipe and made, wait for it, cookie dough cupcakes.

Ingredients:

Cupcakes-

1 box of cake mix (I used marble cake so that there would be some chocolate but not an overwhelming amount)

1 can of diet cream soda (If you haven't tried making diet soda cake before I would highly recommend it. Instead of oil and eggs, just blend one can of diet soda with the cake mix and you cut out tons of fat. And then you can eat more cupcakes.)

1 package of pre-made cookie dough (I'm not Martha Stewart, let's make things easy.)

Blend cake mix with can of soda and bake according to the box directions.

Let the cupcakes cool.

Once cool, use a sharp knife to cut the center out of each cupcake.

Stuff the cupcake with as much cookie dough as your heart desires.

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting (Sprinkles Cupcakes frosting recipe)-

1 cup of butter, softened

3 1/2 cups of confectioners sugar

1 teaspoon of milk

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/3 teaspoon of salt

Combine butter, sugar, and salt. Beat until well blended (should be fairly creamy).

Add the milk and vanilla and beat until smooth and creamy (3-5 minutes).

Frost liberally. (This recipe frosts about 12 cupcakes).

Decorate the top with a mini cookie dough cookie.

Enjoy lots.

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