M&M Cookie Cake!
A super chocolatey two-layer M&M cookie cake made out of two giant cookies with vanilla buttercream frosting!
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 15 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 400 g Plain Flour
- 100 g Cocoa Powder
- 2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Cornflour
- 230 g Unsalted Butter/Stork
- 110 g Granulated Sugar
- 270 g Light Brown Sugar
- 2 Medium Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 150 g Milk Chocolate Chips
- 150 g White Chocolate Chips
- 300 g Chocolate M&Ms
- 150 g Unsalted Butter
- 300 g Icing Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- 1
Preheat your oven to 190C/170C Fan and line Two 8″ Circle Cake Tins with parchment paper, and leave to the side for now.
- 2
Whisk/Mix the Plain Flour, Cocoa Powder, Bicarbonate, Salt and Cornflour together so its evenly distributed – leave to the side.
- 3
In a larger bowl, melt the butter. Add in the two sugars, and whisk for about 2 minutes so the sugar starts to dissolve and the mixture is smooth. Add in the Egg and the Vanilla, and whisk again briefly till smooth.
- 4
Add in the Dry Ingredients, the two different chocolate chips, the M&M’s, and mix with a spatula till a thick cookie dough is formed.
- 5
Press the mixture into the bottom of the two different tins – I weighed it out so they were the same as it made baking them easier and more even.
- 6
Bake in the oven for 25 minutes, until the top of the cookie bake looks ‘dry’ and a skewer comes out basically clean, bar a few crumbs. (Can take up to 30-35 minutes depending on your oven and the mix)
- 7
Leave the cookies to cool in their tins for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool fully on a wire rack.
- 8
In a stand mixer, beat your butter for a couple of minutes till really smooth and supple. Add in the Icing sugar 1/2 at a time and fully beat in before you add the other half.
- 9
Add in the Vanilla Extract and beat the buttercream for about 4-5 minutes until smooth and fluffy. If you think its still a little stiff, add in a couple of tbsps of whole milk, or boiling water and beat till you have the texture you want.
- 10
On top of your favourite cookie, pipe little ‘stars’ of buttercream frosting around the edge and sprinkle on some cute sprinkles (like you can see in the pictures).
- 11
Spread or pipe the rest of the frosting on top of the other cookie. Put the better cookie with the frosting stars on top and you’re done! Enjoy!