Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

The other day I was sitting thinking about food, and I really fancied some cookies, and some cake.

‘Hmm. Perhaps I should mix cookies and cake!’ – the thought sprang into my mind. Happily, my sister’s birthday provided an opportunity for some indulgent experimental baking, and an extremely tasty cake is what happened.

Here is how to go about it:

Ingredients:

Cake

• 100g butter
• 280g caster sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 250ml water
• 50g cocoa powder
• 250g flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 packet chocolate chip cookies

Frosting

• 50ml milk
• 250g icing sugar
• 20g butter, melted
• splash of vanilla extract
• cookies

Method:

Preheat oven to 180/160 fan. Prepare a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper or a paper cake case, greased.

Soften up the butter, then beat in the sugar and then the eggs until smooth and a pale creamy colour. Mix the cocoa with the water, put to one side and sift the dry ingredients together, the fold in small amounts of each alternately until completely mixed.

Pour about half the mixture into the prepared tin, then add a ring of cookies around the edge – the mix helps them stay upright. Crumble a couple of cookies on top of the mix, then add the remaining mixture and crumble more cookies on top of that.

Stick it in the oven on the middle shelf for about 45 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean and the top is springy. While this baking is happening, make the frosting by combining all the frosting ingredients apart from the cookies, and leave it aside until needed.

Once cake is baked, leave to cool, then add the frosting and top with crumbled cookies.

Hide in a corner and scoff the lot yourself. It’s too good to share!

(or alternatively, do share it. But be warned, it’ll disappear quickly!)