Chocolate Cookie Dough Cake
Rylan isn’t a huge fan of his birthday, but every year we host a big backyard BBQ, it is all about the food. Spending 12 hours smoking a brisket, cast iron corn bread, Tex-Mex Pasta Salad, and the most amazing birthday cake I can make. This Chocolate Cookie Dough Cake has to be one of the most spectacular cakes I have made him to date. Cookie dough is one of his favourite ice cream flavours so way not make it a frosting? The cake is adapted from a classic chocolate cake from a Company’s Coming cookbook. I doubled the cake recipe and baked mine in two 12″ springform pans to accommodate our large group.
Links to the Turtles Cookie Dough Frosting and Hungarian Chocolate Frosting.
Modifiers and substitutions will be at the bottom like always for anyone that needs to make adjustments. Possibilities include: Dairy-free
Chocolate Cookie Dough Cake
A rich, decedent, indulgent, guilty pleasure moment prefect for celebrating your special occasions. This two layer cake is fudgy filled with creamy and crunchy turtles cookie dough frosting and topped with a smooth glossy Hungarian chocolate frosting.
Chocolate Cake
- 3 oz Unsweetened Chocolate Baking Squares (3 Squares)
- 1 cup Boiling Water
- ½ cup Softened, margarine
- 1½ cup Stevia (See Modifiers)
- 1 tbsp Molasses
- 3 Large Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 2¼ cup All Purpose Flour
- 1½ tsp Baking Soda
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 cup Oat Based Yogurt
- ½ cup Caramel Sauce (Approx, I use the ice cream topper)
1 Batch Cookie Dough Frosting
1 Batch Hungarian Chocolate Frosting
Cake
Chop the baking squares into smaller pieces and place in a heat safe medium bowl. Add boiling water and stir until chocolate is melted. Let cool to room temperature.
In a large bowl cream together the margarine, stevia and molasses. I recommend doing this by hand with a fork or small whisk. Stevia and butter won't cream together the same as granulated sugar does.
Beat in the eggs one a time until smooth and mix in vanilla. You can use an electric mixer at this step if you like.
In a medium bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
Mix in the flour mixture alternatively in three parts with yogurt in 2 parts. Flour first, then yogurt, flour, yogurt, and flour, until soft and smooth.
Blend in the melted chocolate mixture.
Divide the mixture between two greased 8 inch round cake pans.
Bake at [wprm-temperature value=”350″ unit=”F”] for 35- 40 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the centre should come out clean. Let cool.
Assembly
Once cakes have cooled level the tops if needed by cutting any rounding off.
Heavily drizzle the top of the bottom cake with caramel. Using a large spoon or ice cream scoop place even sized dollops of cookie dough frosting on top and smooth to an even layer. Reserve a small amount of this frosting to fill in the outside edges once the top cake is on.
Add another heavy drizzle of caramel.
Place the second cake on top and use the reserved cookie dough frosting to fill in the edges for there are no large gaps between cake and frosting.
Scoop the Hungarian chocolate frosting into the top of the cake and smooth pushing it down the sides. Cover in an even layer, chill for a little while before slicing and serving. Cuts into 12 wedges.
Rylan’s Rating: 10/10 – “that frosting is unreal”
Modifiers and Substitutions
Dairy – In the original chocolate cake recipe from Company’s Coming they used 1 cup of sour cream. I think there is a chemistry gap in using plant based yogurt, there is a certain acidity to sour cream that reacts with the baking soda for a fluffier cake which is why I think this ended up so dense and fudgy. But it was so delicious I’m not mad about it.
Sugar – I use Stevia in place of granulated sugar, at the end of the day there was no way for me to fully avoid processed granulated sugar for this. But an inside secret for baking with stevia is to add about 1 tsp of molasses for every cup of stevia to add more depth to the flavour. Stevia has a distinct flavour that it gives to baking and I like adding molasses. You could also use brown sugar in place of granulated white.
Cauldron Corner
- Chocolate: Comfort, love, calm, beauty, moods, soften, trust, increase emotional energy
- Egg: Fertility, rejuvenation, mysteries, creation, knowledge, sacredness, wholeness, spirituality
- Pecan: Spiritual purification, longevity, prosperity, protection
- Sugar: Enhance, banishing, break evil, money, love
- Vanilla: Lust, Love, awareness, raise consciousness, boost energy
- Wheat: Conception, rebirth, fertility, abundance, prosperity, Goddess
- Salt: Protection, purification, barrier, shield