11 Perfect Chocolate Chip Cake and Cupcake Recipes

When you can't decide between a cookie or a brownie, make a combo! Here, cookie dough is dotted over brownie batter and baked until the edges are cakey and the interior is fudgy.

Double the chips, double the deliciousness? These cupcakes are baked with chocolate chips and then generously covered with a chocolate chip-buttercream frosting.

A hit with both kids and adults, this "cake" is actually five enormous semisweet chocolate chip cookies slathered in cream cheese frosting.

Freezing and thawing over-ripe bananas before mashing creates a syrupy-thick juice, more like liquid gold, that bursts with sweet banana flavor and makes this loaf next-level delicious.

It's all about the wow factor: Eight dozen chocolate chip cookies are carefully stacked with a deliciously creamy mascarpone cheese filling.

Cookies or cupcakes? With this recipe you get the best of both. Vanilla cupcakes hold a surprise: a chocolate-chip-cookie-like center. The mini chocolate-chip cookie decorations seal the deal.

What would make angel food more heavenly? Why, mini semisweet chocolate chips, of course! Oh, and a drizzle of mocha ganache, too!

Chips ahoy! In this whimsical cake-decorating idea, chocolate loaf cake is cut and stacked with layers of chocolate-chip ice cream. Then the fun parts: Chocolate chips decorate the port and starboard, a peanut butter cup is the crow's nest, and dollops of whipped cream sprinkled with blue sanding sugar become the frothy waves.

Take pound cake to a new level of indulgence by adding chocolate chips (semisweet or bittersweet, depending on your preference) to the batter, and drizzling it with a chocolate-coffee liqueur sauce.

Fresh mint leaves give this dirty mint ice cream a fresh, cool intensity. Why is it "dirty"? Because we use brown sugar in the base, which gives the ice cream a deep caramel punch and a natural light brown color. It is also "dirty" because we don't strain out the mint. Leaving it in deepens the flavor the longer the ice cream is in the freezer. Chocolate chips take it over the top.