Yup, this recipe is definitely over 900 calories (I got about 915 using WebMD’s calorie estimates) not including dippers. But, as you said, no one comes to a dessert website for HEALTHY options. I mean, it’s a dip made of butter, cream cheese, and sugar. Common sense should tell someone not to eat it every day for breakfast.

I made this last night, somehow I was smell cookie dough all day and it made me want to make some up to eat! I served this with pretzels, graham crackers, strawberries and animal crackers and my husband and I watched the OC on HBO max and we polished it off! Great dish!

Oh I gotcha girl! I have a cookie dough layer cake recipe here: https://www.dessertfortwo.com/cookie-dough-cake/

Thank you so much for the considered reply, I appreciate the in-depth explanation and it makes sense now knowing that it’s a plug-in.
Just wanted to add that I love your blog, and have since I came across your first cookbook a few years ago! I always cut recipes in half so it’s awesome being able to make stuff from your site without having to make any edits or have a freezer overstuffed with cookie dough. Your muffin recipes have been go-to’s during this lockdown!

Hi Amy :)
In the 10 years I’ve run this blog, I’ve used 2 different calorie counter plugins. Unfortunately, I’m at their mercy for accuracy. The first plugin went out of businesses and I lost all of my data…I had to go back and manually enter posts from the first 5 years (oh, the joys of running an entirely free website!) I don’t have time to do the calculations myself, and 97% of the time, the calculations through these plugins are correct.
I’m just guessing here, but I believe that certain ingredients and measurements throw off the calculator. Especially when I say ‘a pinch,’ or ‘1/8 teaspoon,’ or ‘1/4 + 1/3 cup.’ In this recipe, I believe mini chocolate chips isn’t in the database, and so it’s taking it as ‘chocolate.’ This is just my best guess.
If I were you, I would report all complaints to the recipe calculators. Believe me, I’d love to remove nutrition info from my site because I think it’s mostly useless, and like you, I don’t visit a dessert blog for health (hah!). The reason I keep it active is because google prefers this for their database. The more info a recipe provides, the more likely my recipes are to show up in google search results, which is how I make money running a free site.
961 calories sounds high, but let me search for a free one online and see what I come up with….hold please :)

To pre-empt any snark, I don’t come here for health food but that’s just incorrect information.

I know this is an old post but this makes me wary of any of the other calorie counts on your blog :(

This isn’t a healthy food blog – your comment is unnecessary. If you haven’t even made it, there’s no reason for you to comment! This recipe looks delicious and plenty of people splurge once in awhile on a yummy snack. Does Christina look unhealthy? Didn’t think so. I plan on making this during the coming week and I’m sure it will be delicious!

Your loss.

Thanks for the heads-up. I was going to enter it into MFP…. think I will pass!!!

Put the ingredients into MyFitnessPal – I said a recipe was 2 servings and it was 416 per serving. 416+416=932. This doesn’t include pretzels or fruit.

How do you get to that total?