Half Baked Cake

Instructions

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

1. In a small bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the butter, sugars, milk and vanilla until smooth.
3. Whisk in the dry ingredients.
4. Add the mini chocolate chips and fold together.
5. Cover and freeze 30 minutes or until firm.

Fudge Brownie Cake

1. Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Grease 3 8in cake pans, line with parchment paper, grease again then flour.
2. In a large sauce pan over medium-high heat, melt together the butter and bakers chocolate until smooth. Whisking often.
3. Add the sugar and whisk together until smooth.
4. Pour the chocolate mixture into a large bowl.
5. Add the eggs, one at a time, and whisk after each addition. NOTE: Make sure to whisk well after each egg. The batter should become thick.
6. Whisk in the vanilla.
7. Sprinkle the flour, baking soda and salt over the batter and whisk until just combined.
8. Pour 1 ½ cups of batter into each prepared cake pan.
9. Remove the cookie dough from the freezer. Roll marble sized balls of dough and drop into the batter. Add as many dough balls as you want... I added 12-15 per pan.
10. Using your finger, press the dough balls down into pan and cover with batter. You want all the balls to be completely submerged and covered with batter.
11. Bake on the center rack of your oven for 25-28 minutes or until the top begins to crack slightly and a toothpick comes out clean from the center.
12. Cool in the pans for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. NOTE: It will be helpful to run a butter knife along the edge of the pan before removing the cake to help prevent sticking.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting

1. In the bowl of your stand mixer, cream the butter until smooth.
2. Crumble the brown sugar so that there are no lumps and add it to the butter. Cream together until smooth.
3. Sift the powdered sugar into the bowl and mix on medium-low speed until combined. Scrape the sides of the bowl and mix again.
4. Mix in the vanilla.
5. Sift the flour into the bowl and mix on medium-low speed until combined. Scrape the sides of the bowl and mix again.
6. Add the heavy cream and salt and mix on high for 1-2 minutes or until light and fluffy. Scrape the sides of the bowl and mix another minute.

Assembly

1. Place one cake layer on your cake stand and spread ¼ inch layer of the frosting chips over the top. Place the second layer on top and spread another ¼ inch layer of frosting. Place the last layer of cake on top.
2. Crumb coat the outside of the cake. Freeze the cake for 20 minutes.
3. Reserve 1 cup of frosting for decorating. Fold in ½ cup mini chocolate chips into the remaining frosting.
4. Cover the outside of the cake with the cookie dough frosting.
5. Using the straight edge of a cake decorating comb, make sure the sides and the top of the cake are smooth and even.
6. Using the edge with the triangle scallops, run the decorating comb along the outside of the cake.
7. Press mini chocolate chips onto the bottom 1-2 inches of the cake at the base.
8. Using a large star piping tip fitted to a disposable piping bag, pipe small swirls/mounds of frosting along the top edge of the cake. Place a chocolate chip, upside down in the center of each swirl.