Tammy and Christina from the blog Food Apparel share one of their favorite dessert recipes with us.
COOKIES AND CREAM CHOCOLATE SHEET CAKE
Author: Tamara Blankenship
Recipe type: dessert, cake
Style: Classic
INGREDIENTS
For the Cake:
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup hot water
- 1 cup chopped Oreo cookies
For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, at room temperature
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Oreo cookies (as many as desired), chopped
DIRECTIONS
For the Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a sheet pan with cooking spray and set aside. (I use an 11 x 17 jelly roll pan.)
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together sugar, flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla extract. Set aside.
- In a small sauce pan, melt the butter on medium-low heat.
- Whisk in the cocoa powder and hot water.
- Turn up the heat to medium-high and bring the mixture to a boil.
- Add the melted butter mixture to the dry ingredients and mix until smooth.
- Stir in the milk mixture and mix until ingredients are combined.
- Stir in the chopped Oreo cookies.
- Pour the batter into the prepared sheet pan and spread evenly.
- Bake the cake for 17-19 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
For the Frosting:
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla together until smooth and creamy.
- When the cake is completely cool, frost the cake with the cream cheese frosting.
- To top it off, sprinkle top of cake with roughly chopped Oreo cookies.
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