Cookie Dough Snack Cake
Difficulty: Easy9
servings30
minutes45
minutesY’all this cookie dough cake is so good! You’re going to want to eat the whole cake and it is a great cake to make if you have leftover cookie dough in the freezer or you can buy pre-package cookie dough as well!
Ingredients
- Cake:
* 2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
* 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1 3/4 cup granulated sugar
* 12 tbsp unsalted butter, room temp
* 3 eggs, room temp
* 2 tsp vanilla extract
* 1 cup buttermilk
* 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
* Cookie dough, sliced (can be pre-bought, we had leftover cookie dough from cookies)- Cookie Dough Frosting:
* 16 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
* 1 cup brown sugar
* 2 tsp vanilla extract
* 3 tbsp milk
* 1/4 tsp salt
* 3/4 cup microwaved all-purpose flour
* 1/2 cup powder sugar
* 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
Optional: edible cookie dough and mini chocolate chips for topping
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Line one 9” square cake pan with parchment paper and grease the sides.
- In a large bowl combine dry cake ingredients, excluding sugar. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl beat butter with an electric mixer. Add in sugar and beat for 5 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla extract and beat till combine. Alternating milk and flour add in a little at a time till it is combined and smooth. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour half of the cake batter in the pan. Layer slices of cookie dough on top of the cake. Pour other half of batter on top of cookie dough and smooth out. Bake for 45-50 minutes. Let cake cool for 5 minutes and pop on to cooling rack.
- While cake is continuing to cool make your frosting by beating butter. Add in brown sugar, vanilla extract, milk, and salt. Continue to beat for about 8 min. Microwave flour in a small bowl for 90 secs. This heat treats the flour. Pour flour into mixture, with powder sugar and beat for another 3 min till smooth. Cut sides of cake and frost cake.
