I made this delicious chocolate chip cookie dough cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves chocolate chips and loved this cake. The cake is light and fluffy with chocolate chips swirled throughout. Then you top if with this amazing cookie dough frosting, but that is not all. To finish the entire cake off you frost with a vanilla buttercream frosting. It all comes together and looks and tastes amazing.
Ingredients:
Cake:
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1½ cups buttermilk
- 1½ cups mini chocolate chips
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Filling: Here
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting: Here
Directions:
Preheat oven to 325ºF. Prepare three 9″ or five 7″ round baking pans by spraying with a baker’s spray or greasing pans with butter and coating with flour, knowing out any excess. Line bottoms with parchment paper.
In a mixing bowl, whisk together cake flour, baking powder, and salt.
In a separate mixing bowl, cream butter for 3 minutes until light and fluffy. Add in sugar and beat until incorporated. Slowly add in eggs, one at a time, beating until well combined. Butter and eggs are two fats that do not want to be together, so it’s important to properly incorporate them. Add in vanilla. Mix. Incorporate dry ingredients into wet, mixing only until combined and alternating with the buttermilk, starting and finishing with flour mixture. Stir in mini chocolate chips.
Divide batter into pans evenly into prepared pans. Bake for 20-22 minutes for smaller pans; 25-30 minutes for larger, checking as early as five minutes before timer is about to go off. Cake is done when a toothpick inserted has a few moist crumbs and cake pulls away from sides of pan.
Remove from oven and allow to cool for several minutes before turning cake out of pans and allowing to cool completely on a wire rack.
Prepare Filling and Frosting. Starting with a bottom layer of cake, frost with filling and ensure entire surface is covered. Place another layer of cake and frost with filling. Repeat steps until all layers are covered. Smooth frosting over outer surface. You can do a crumb coat if you wish. Once entire surface is coated with frosting, pipe designs if you so desire. Top with mini chocolate chips.
