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Yum Alert: Cookie Brownie S’mores Cake

cookie brownie smores cake
Written by emilyc

cookie brownie smores cake

Um, bye New Year’s resolutions! I’m sorry, but starting the year with Cookie Brownie S’mores Cake can only bode well for the future. Recipe and image via Fat Girl Trapped in a Skinny Body.

Ingredients:

For the brownie layers:

2 sticks unsalted butter
2 1/4 cups sugar
4 large eggs
1 1/4 cups Double-Dutch Dark Cocoa or Dutch-process cocoa
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon espresso powder (or instant coffee)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
2 cups chocolate chips (semi sweet used here)

For the cheesecake layers:

1 1/4 pounds cream cheese (20 oz), room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs
1/2 cup sour cream

For the chocolate chip cookie layer:

3/4 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 ts vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1 cup mini chocolate chips (semi sweet or milk chocolate)
2 cups flour

For the frosting:

6 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled (I let it cool about 1 hour, stirring occasionally)
4 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar (no need to sift)
3 sticks (12 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
6 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

And finally, for the marshmallow filling:

1 jar (7 oz) marshmallow fluff
1 stick butter, room temperature
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract

Preparation instructions here.

About the author

emilyc

Emily is a New Yorker trapped in a Floridian's body and loves every minute of her big city life. With a major in international business and years of being surrounded by ill-fitting suits and all the wrong shoes, she learned that the importance of fashion needs to be communicated to the world. To her, fashion is on the same level as charity work and feeding hungry children. Emily can be found frolicking the streets of her gayborhood enjoying the off-color humor of the gays.