Chocolate cake is great, edible cookie dough is also very much great SO WHY NOT PUT THEM TOGETHER and make a cookie dough cake!
I don’t have much to say about this cake apart from the fact that I loved it.
Adding a layer of cookie dough was a great way to make a classic chocolate cake a little more exciting.
Video Tutorial
Break down of the process
There are 4 different parts to making this cookie dough cake, here’s a quick overview of what we’re going to be doing!
- Make the ganache – out of everything we’re going to make for this cake, the ganache takes the longest to set. So we’re making this first.
- Make the cake layers – I went with chocolate cake layers for this, I felt like chocolate cake would go great with the edible cookie dough.
- Making the cookie dough layer – this cookie dough has no eggs in and is also made with heat treated flour so it is safe to eat. I’ll go more into heat treating flour later.
- Assembling – once everything is set, baked and cooled, you can put the cake together.
The cake layers
For the cake, I’m using my chocolate cake recipe.
I LOVE THIS RECIPE. The cake is always so soft and it’s pretty easy to make too. It’s one of my favourite recipes to make.
Here are some common questions I get about the recipe:
Can I leave the coffee out?
I love adding coffee to chocolate cakes, it makes the chocolate flavour so much better.
The coffee doesn’t make the cake taste like coffee at all, the only thing it does is enhance the chocolate flavour.
However, if you did want to leave it out, yes you can. Just make sure to still add the hot water, just don’t add the coffee to it!
Can I use butter instead of oil?
Some cake recipes use butter, some use oil, some use both.
When oil is added to a cakes, it is typically added for moisture….oil gives you a moister cake. Whereas butter is mainly added to cakes for flavour.
When it comes to chocolate cake, I feel like butter doesn’t add a lot of extra flavour, since the chocolate flavour takes over. So I like to just use oil to get that extra moistness.
But yes you could use butter instead, just melt 100g of butter and add it in, instead of the oil.
Substitutes for the yoghurt?
Just like oil, yoghurt is also added for moisture. I don’t ever make a chocolate cake without adding yoghurt to it, I love what it does to the cake.
The best substitute is using the same amount sour cream instead. Buttermilk also works too!
Can I use regular flour instead of self-raising flour?
Yes, just use the same amount of plain/all purpose flour and add 2 teaspoons of baking powder to it.
The edible cookie dough
We can’t be making a cookie dough cake without making some edible cookie dough. So let’s talk about this.
I know a lot of us have ate raw cookie dough before. But technically, raw cookie dough is not safe to eat….we probably shouldn’t be eating it.
But the cookie dough in this cake is completely safe, there is no eggs in it and the flour has also been heat treated!
How to heat treat flour
I always use to think that the reason we’re not supposed to be eating raw cookie dough is because of the eggs.
This is true but the flour is an issue too.
Raw flour can contain bacteria that we shouldn’t be eating so to get rid of this bacteria, all we need to do is cook the flour in the oven before adding it to the cookie dough.
To do this just spread an even layer of the flour on a baking paper lined tray and then bake this at 180c/350f for around 15 minutes, stirring it every 2 minutes. All we are doing is getting the flour to reach 71c/160f.
Make sure to let this flour cool down before adding it to the cookie dough, if it is too hot it will melt the chocolate chips.
Also side note, if there happens to be clumps of flour, that’s ok just sieve it before using.
Why did you use condensed milk in the edible cookie dough?
I like to sweeten my edible cookie dough with mainly condensed milk and then a little bit of brown sugar for flavour.
I feel like sweeten condensed milk gives a smoother cookie dough. That’s the only reason.
You could replace it with regular sugar or more brown sugar. But I do think it is much better with condensed milk.
The ganache
If you’ve been seeing my recipes for a while, you might have noticed that whenever I’m using chocolate, I like to use dark chocolate.
I feel like with desserts, there’s already a lot of sugar in them, so dark chocolate is best to use because it adds a chocolate flavour without adding extra sweetness.
But a lot of people don’t like the taste of dark chocolate, so I went with milk chocolate for this cake.
It did taste great, I just prefer dark chocolate. But it’s up to you what you want to use.
If you are using dark chocolate though, make sure to double the amount of double cream in the recipe, the ganache will be too thick if you don’t!
DON’T PUT THIS CAKE IN THE FRIDGE
Ok the all caps might have been a little dramatic.
The cookie dough gets very hard in the fridge, it doesn’t taste very good when it is cold.
So I don’t recommend putting this in the fridge. If you did though, just give it a few hours at room temp before eating it!
I like cake. I make a lot of cake. Here are some other cake recipes I think you might like!
Chocolate Chip
Cookie Dough Cake
Ingredients
- For the ganache:
450g milk chocolate
225ml double cream
30g unsalted butter
- For the chocolate cake:
50g cocoa powder
100ml hot water mixed with 1 teaspoon instant coffee
100ml any flavourless oil (I use vegetable)
100g plain yoghurt
3 eggs
175g self-raising flour
125g granulated sugar
125g brown sugar
- For the cookie dough:
200g plain flour
180g unsalted butter, softened
50g brown sugar
160g sweetened condensed milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
120g chocolate chips
Directions
- Making the ganache:
- In a bowl, add the chocolate, cream and butter. Heat this in your microwave for 30 seconds, then take it out and stir.
- Place this back in the microwave for 15 seconds this time, then take it out and stir again. Keep repeating this until all the chocolate has melted and you get a smooth mixture. Cover and leave this aside to set.
- Making the chocolate cake layers:
- Start by pre-heating your oven to 170c/325f. Also grease and line two 6 inch cake tins with some baking paper.
- In a bowl or jug, whisk together the cocoa powder and the hot water mixed with coffee.
- Add the oil and yoghurt into this, whisk, then add in the eggs and whisk until smooth.
- In a large separate bowl, whisk together the flour and both sugars. Pour the wet mixture into this and whisk everything together, just until you get a smooth batter.
- Pour this into your cake tins and bake for around 40-45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. Once baked, leave these to cool.
- Making the cookie dough:
- You want to start by heat treating your flour. So spread an even layer of the flour onto a large baking paper lined tray and place this into an oven that is at 180c/350f.
- You want to cook this four around 15 minutes, every 2 minutes give the flour a stir. Cook it until the temp of the flour reaches 71c/160f. If you don't have thermometer, that's fine, 15 minutes will be good.
- Once cooked, leave aside to cool for 10 minutes.
- In a large bowl, add the softened butter, brown sugar, condensed milk and vanilla. Beat these together on high speed for 5 minutes, if you're making this by hand just mix for as long as you can.
- Add in the cooled flour and mix until a dough forms, then mix in the chocolate chips.
- Get a 6 inch cake tin and add some cling film to it. Add the cookie dough into this and gently press it down. You don't want to press down too much, the more you compress it, the harder it will be once it sets.
- Leave this aside.
- Assembling the cake:
- Once the cakes have cooled and the ganache has set, you can put everything together.
- Get your ganache and whip it on high speed until it doubles in volume and lightens in colour. You can do this by hand but it is a lot easier to use an electric mixer.
- I cut the tops of my cake layers to make them more even. Then to put the cake together; I added a cake layer, some ganache, the cookie dough, another layer of ganache and then the final cake layer.
- After this, you can decorate however you like, then cut into it and enjoy!
