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Cookie Dough Chocolate Cake

The other day, I turned to my husband and said, “Can you believe we’ve been parents for ten years?” Ryan and I met when we were nineteen years old. It took us eight years to get married and two months to get pregnant (not planned). We were celebrating Allan’s first birthday before our first wedding anniversary. What a whirlwind year that was! Here’s a tip: don’t get married, have a baby, and buy your first home all at the same time. Or do, it really accelerates your personal growth. Nothing strengthens a marriage quite like assembling IKEA furniture while holding a crying baby and arguing about which screw is “clearly labeled B!”


Somehow, in the middle of the chaos, we’ve also grown up ourselves. We’ve learned that patience isn’t something you have, it’s something you practice. Daily. Hourly. Sometimes every three minutes. We’ve learned that love multiplies in ways you can’t explain. That your heart can live outside your body. That the small, ordinary moments like bedtime prayers, kitchen dance parties, sticky hands reaching for yours are all actually the big moments.


Allan's eczema has been flaring up these past few months so we agreed to put him on a dairy free diet for thirty days to see if it would help. Of course, this meant his birthday cake couldn't have milk and butter. (My two favorite things!) When Allan said he wanted a cookie dough cake for his tenth birthday, I was left pondering how to make it work with no butter. So, I developed this recipe just for Allan! No butter, no milk, just lots of cookie dough flavor and indulgent ganache!


cookie dough chocolate cake

Ingredients:


Chocolate Cake

500g (2 1/2 cups) white sugar

240g (1 cup) coconut oil

3 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla

1 teaspoon salt

40g (1/2 cup) cocoa powder

360g (3 cups) all-purpose flour

2 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

240g (1 cup) almond milk

240g (1 cup) hot coffee


Cookie Dough Layer

263g (1 1/4 cups) coconut oil

150g (3/4 cups) white sugar

150g (3/4 cups) brown sugar

1 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon salt

281g (2 1/4 cups) all-purpose flour, heat treated

4 tablespoons

135g (3/4 cups) mini chocolate chips


Chocolate Ganache

12oz chocolate chips

1/4 cup almond milk

Salt, to sprinkle on top of the cake


Method:

For the Cake

  1. Prep two 8-inch cake pans with parchment paper and coconut oil and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

  2. Place the coconut oil, sugar, vanilla and salt in a stand mixer whip until well combined. Add the eggs one at a time mixing in-between.

  3. Sift the cocoa powder, flour, baking powder and baking soda together, add it to the bowl and mix until just combined.

  4. Lastly, add the almond milk and hot coffee and mix everything together. Pour the batter into the cake pans and bake for 35-40 minuets. Or util a toothpick comes out clean. Place the cakes on a wire rack to cool completely.

For the Cookie Dough Layer

  1. Place the flour in a microwave safe bowl and microwave it for 1 minuet. This kills any bacteria that may be on the flour. You will need to sift the flour after.

  2. Mix all the ingredients together, separate the cookie dough into two 8-inch cake pans, and place them in the freezer for 10 minuets. Run the pan under hot water to help relies the cookie dough layer and set aside.

For the Chocolate Ganache

  1. In a medium saucepan on medium heat, add the chocolate and almond milk and whisk it together until smooth and glossy. Set aside to cool.

For Assembly

  1. On the cake stand, place a spoon full of ganache and the first chocolate cake layer. Next, add more ganache and the cookie dough layer. Spoon over more ganache and the last cake layer, more ganache and finish with the top layer of cookie dough.

  2. Cover the whole cake in the remaining chocolate ganache. Sprinkle over the salt for a bit of crunch.


Tip: I found that the cake is better when it has a few hours to sit. The cookie dough layer really softened up.



cookie dough chocolate cake

 I sure hope you give this Cookie Dough Chocolate Cake a try! Dairy free or not, it is absolutely delicious! If you want to stay in the loop on our cozy Made at Home life, subscribe to my monthly email list!


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