Cookie Dough Brownie Cake

Rich and decadent, this three-layer brownie cake is filled with cookie dough frosting and topped with a silky chocolate ganache.

You already know when you make an exceptional dessert, take it on your mom’s residence for Sunday dinner, and best consume a tiny piece due to the fact you’re too complete from dinner to devour more?   And you then find your self sitting on the couch at 9pm wishing you brought a piece domestic with you?

I’m there.

I always try this.  I’m all like, “Nah, I don’t want a massive piece of cake, I’m proper with one little bite.”  after which at 9pm I’m looking to parent out what my parents might do if I barged into their kitchen find it irresistible changed into 1989 again.  in particular given that I’d must wake my children up to make the journey.  I think the largest hassle is that this doesn’t sound terribly irrational to me…

Talking of which, are you able to accept as true with that 1989 was 25 years ago?  due to the fact i used to be curious, I appeared up the top one hundred Billboard songs of 1989.  It included “My Prerogative,” “Wind below my Wings,” “every Rose Has It’s Thorn,” and “immediately Up.”

I now sense old.

So, now I feel old and that i wish I had cake.  Cookie Dough Brownie Cake, to be specific.

Cookie Dough Brownie Cake

Rich and decadent, this three-layer brownie cake is filled with cookie dough frosting and topped with a silky chocolate ganache.

Prep time

45 mins

Serves: 12-16 servings

Ingredients

Brownie Cake:

• 1 and ½ cups vegetable oil
• 3 cups sugar
• three teaspoons vanilla extract
• 6 eggs
• 1 and ½ cups flour
• 1 cup cocoa powder
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Cookie Dough Filling:

• 3 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
• ¾ cup mild brown sugar, packed
• 3 and ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
• 1 cup all-reason flour
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• three Tablespoons milk
• 2 and ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

Ganache Frosting:

• 4 ounces semi-candy chocolate, finely chopped (or use chocolate chips)
• ½ cup heavy whipping cream
• ¼ cup mild corn syrup
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• greater chocolate chips, for garnish

Instructions

Muffins:

1. Pre-warmth oven to 350 levels (F).
2. prepare 3 8-inch round baking pans with cooking spray and parchment.
3. In a large bowl, combine sugar and oil. Stir with a large timber spoon till completely blended.
4. add eggs separately, stirring and incorporating each completely before including every other.
5. upload vanilla, stir to mix.
6. In a medium bowl, combine dry elements (flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder.) Whisk to mix.
7. add dry elements a little bit at a time, stirring till just absorbed whenever. I delivered mine in 3 batches. Do now not over-mix, just stir till dry ingredients are completely included.
8. Pour batter calmly into 3 organized pans.
9. Bake for 20-25 mins, or till a toothpick comes out with moist crumbs.
10. Cool completely, then eliminate from pans and set aside.
11. put together filling.

Cookie Dough Filling:

1. In a massive bowl (I used my stand mixer) beat butter and brown sugar until mild and fluffy.
2. upload confectioners' sugar, and beat to combine.
3. add flour and sugar, beat until blended.
4. add milk and vanilla, beat till mild and fully.

Ganache Frosting:

1. In a medium glass bowl, warmth heavy cream inside the microwave till steaming hot but not boiling, approximately 45 seconds. (Microwaves vary, so simply watch yours carefully.)
2. put off warm cream from microwave, and pour chocolate chips into the cream.
3. permit to sit down for 30 seconds, then slowly stir with a rubber spatula until cream and chocolate fully integrate, and chocolate melts completely.
4. Stir in corn syrup and vanilla, and again stir until completely blended. Set aside whilst you assemble the cake.

Assembly:

1. Vicinity one layer of brownie cake in your serving platter. Spoon about 1 cup of frosting over the pinnacle of the cooled cake, and spread just to the brink of the cake.
2. Region some other layer on pinnacle of the first. Press down slightly to cozy.
3. Spoon any other 1 cup of frosting over the top of the layer, and spread simply to the edges of the cake.
4. Spoon ultimate frosting right into a piping bag with a star tip for redecorating.
5. Location pinnacle layer of cake over the frosting. Press down barely to comfy.
6. Area cake in fridge for 10 minutes.
7. Do away with chilled cake from fridge. Slowly pour about ½ cup of ganache over the pinnacle of the cake, and the usage of an offset spatula, slowly unfold it to the perimeters of the cake, simply slightly pushing it over the threshold. upload extra ganache till you reach your desired coverage.
8. Place cake lower back in fridge for 20 minutes to permit ganache to company up.
9. Pipe decorations round cake, sprinkle with chocolate chips and drizzle with leftover ganache.
10. Revel in!