Birthday Cookie Cake Food

BIRTHDAY COOKIE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugars.
• Add egg and vanilla.
• Mix on low speed, add dry ingredients.
• Mix well. Stir in Chocolate Chips or M&Ms.
• Spray a 12 inch round pizza pan with Pam and spread cookie dough evenly to the edges.
• Bake at 325 degrees F for 15 to 20 minutes, or until light golden brown.
• When cool, decorate as desired.

BIRTHDAY COOKIE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
• Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt for cake in a large bowl. Add milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla; beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water; batter will be thin. Pour batter into the prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the middles comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes in the pans. Invert carefully onto wire racks and let cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• Prepare whipped cream by beating cream, sugar, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl on high speed until soft peaks form in the mixture. Stir in crushed cookies.
• Frost the cooled cake cake with whipped cream, adding some in between layers. Place cake on a paper-lined surface. Chill any unused whipped cream.
• Bring cream for glaze to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Remove from the heat and add chocolate chips; stir until melted.
• Spread glaze over the cake, allowing some to flow down over the sides. Decorate the top of the cake with remaining crushed cookies. Pipe any remaining whipped cream on the top and around the edges of the cake.

COOKIES & CREAM PARTY CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line two 20cm cake tins with baking parchment - if your cake tins are quite shallow, line the sides to a depth of at least 5cm. Put 200g flour, 8 tbsp cocoa powder, 2 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 280g light brown soft sugar and 1 tsp salt in a bowl and mix well. If there are any lumps in the sugar, squeeze these through your fingers to break them up.
• Measure 200ml buttermilk, 100ml coffee, 150ml oil and 2 tsp vanilla in a jug. Add 2 eggs and whisk until smooth. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and whisk until well combined. Pour the cake mixture evenly into the two tins, and bake for 25-30 mins until risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tins for 10 mins, then turn out onto a wire rack, peel off the baking parchment and leave to cool.
• Repeat steps 1 and 2, so that you have 4 sponge cakes in total. These sponges can be made up to three days ahead and will stay moist if wrapped in cling film, or you can wrap well and freeze for up to two months.
• To make the icing, put the butter in a large bowl and sieve in half the icing sugar. Roughly mash together with a spatula, then whizz with a hand mixer until smooth. Add the cream cheese and sieve in the remaining icing sugar, mash together again, then blend once more with the hand mixer. Put the Oreos in a food processor and whizz to fine crumbs. Add the biscuit crumbs to the icing and mix again until combined.
• Next, make the cookie cake toppers. You'll need one Oreo for each letter of the word you'd like to write - someone's name or, like we have done, 'WOW!' Carefully insert a skewer into the creamy filling in the middle of each Oreo - some cookies may break, so save these ones for later. Melt the chocolate in the microwave, stirring every 20 secs or so, or in a heatproof bowl suspended over a pan of gently simmering water. Spread a little chocolate over the surface of one side of each cookie. Roll out the fondant icing to the thickness of a 50p coin, and cut out your letters, then stick these to the cookies and set aside to dry. Alternatively, let the chocolate dry, then use an icing pen to write the name or word directly on the surface.
• To assemble the cake, stick one of your sponges to a cake stand or board with a little of the cream cheese icing. Use roughly half the icing to stack the remaining cakes on top, spreading a generous amount between each layer. Pile the remaining icing on top of the assembled cake, and use a palette knife to ease it over the edges, covering the entire surface of the cake. Tidy the plate with a piece of kitchen paper.
• If you have any leftover Oreos, break them into pieces and push these around the base of the cake. Insert the dried cookie cake toppers into the top of the cake and serve. Store leftovers in the fridge for up to 2 days, but bring back to room temperature for an hour or so before eating.

GIANT COOKIE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and grease a 22cm springform cake tin. Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until pale and fluffy, then mix in the egg, extra yolk and vanilla extract.
• Combine the flour, cornflour and baking powder, then fold into the butter mixture until fully incorporated - it will be quite thick. Add the chocolate chips and mix until evenly distributed.
• Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 20-25 mins or until light golden brown. Leave to cool for 5 mins. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

BIRTHDAY CAKE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, stir cake mix, rainbow candy sprinkles, butter, milk and egg until soft batter forms. Scoop 20 tablespoonfuls of batter onto ungreased large cookie sheet.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or just until cookies are set. Remove from cookie sheet; cool completely.
• Spread frosting on bottom of 1 cookie; top with second cookie, bottom side down.
• Roll edges of frosting in confetti candy sprinkles. If desired, top each with a birthday candle.

BIG BIRTHDAY COOKIE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 16-inch round pizza pan with cooking spray.
• Mix hot water and baking soda together in a small bowl; set aside.
• Cream margarine, brown sugar, and white sugar together. Add pudding mix, eggs, and baking soda mixture; mix until well combined. Slowly mix in flour until smooth. Blend in chocolate chips. Spread in the prepared pizza pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes.