Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake! Everyone’s favorite cookie turned into a show stopping layer cake made with rum syrup, dark chocolate ganache and brown sugar buttercream.
Recipe by: baking-sense.com
yield: 12-16 SERVINGS
Ingredients
Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Chocolate Chip Cake
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1 1/4 cups (8 oz, 215g) mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon all purpose flour
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2 tablespoons molasses
Assembly
1/2 recipe rum Simple Syrup
1 cup ganache at room temperature
Instructions
Make the cookie layer
- Line an 8″ or 9″ cake pan with a parchment round
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Cream the butter with both sugars until light and fluffy
- Add the egg and mix until combined
- Add the flour, baking soda and salt
- Add the chips all at once and mix until combined
- Spread the dough into the cake pan. The dough should be about 1/2″ thick (if you have excess dough use it to make cookies)
- Bake until the middle of the cookie puffs up a little and then collapses, about 20 minutes.
- Cool completely in the pan
- Flip the pan over and bang one edge of the pan a couple of times. The cookie should loosen and fall out
- Set aside at room temperature until ready to assemble the cake
Bake the Cake
