Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking Brownie Layer Cake with Cookie Dough Frosting

Hi Bold Bakers! What could be better than Chocolate Chip Cookies & Brownies? I'll tell

you what: a Brownie Layer Cake with Cookie Dough Frosting and that's what we're going

to make today. Also, stay tuned because in this episode I'm going to give you a very

special announcement about a new series coming up that I'm really excited about.

So let's get baking!

So we're going to start out by making our brownies. Now I kid you not, this is the Best-Ever

brownie recipe. They are really moist and fudgie and that's just the way I like them.

So we're going to start out by melting our chocolate and butter gently together. You

can do this over a bain-marie or you can do it in a microwave. You just want to make sure

it doesn't get too hot. Once your chocolate and butter has melted, we're going to add

in our sugars. Our white sugar and our brown sugar. Now if you don't have brown sugar,

don't worry about it you can use all white but brown sugar definitely gives it a molassessy

kind of fudgie flavor and texture.

You stir in the sugars now because it cools down the mix before you add in the eggs because

if you don't cool it down you will end up with chocolate eggs which sound very nice

but it's not. This brownie recipe is just insane. I absolutely love it.

Set your chocolate mix aside and in a separate jug, crack in your eggs and add your vanilla

extract and then whisk them all well together. Next whisk in your eggs into your chocolate

mix. Do this step quite quickly. Then we're going to sift over our flour, cocoa powder

and salt. And then gently fold these ingredients together to get a nice, smooth brownie batter. Take

care not to overmix because you don't want to toughen your brownies.

Our batter is now ready to be poured into our lined and buttered baking tin. Look at

how fudgie that is. I've never been much of a chewy brownie person. I definitely much

prefer fudgie.

Our brownie cake is ready for the oven. The one thing we don't want to do with this little

guy is over bake him because he will dry out and he won't be nice and fudgie which is the

way we want him. So you want to keep a close eye and make sure he turns out perfect.

So what's my big announcement? Well, I'm really excited to tell you that my long-awaited breakfast

series is airing this Monday the 20th and every Monday leading up to Mother's Day. I

will show you how to make an entire breakfast menu. I don't know if you all know this but

I used to have a breakfast catering business in San Francisco where I developed these sweet

and savory recipes that I'm going to be sharing with you. They're guaranteed to fuel you for

your day and I hope that you love them. So get excited!

While our brownie cake is in the oven, we're going to go ahead and make our Cookie Dough

Frosting. Now Cookie Dough Frosting is like the ultimate frosting. It's like regular frosting

but tastes just like cookie dough so it's a perfect combination for our brownie cake.

Now I'm going to mix mine in my machine but you can also mix it by hand. Just make sure

you use a lot of elbow grease and room temperature ingredients.

We're going to start out the same way you would making any type of frosting. We're going

to beat our butter and our cream cheese together really well until there are no lumps. Perfect!

Once your butter and cream cheese is beaten up really well, this is the stage you want

to add in your sugar. Next add in your brown sugar. This is one of the ingredients that

will make this frosting taste like a cookie dough. Then also follow with your vanilla

extract. And then just like the previous step, you want to whip all of these ingredients

well together. Once they're all mixed together, we're going to slowly add in icing sugar.

You add it in nice and slowly because it yields a nice fluffy frosting. Once you add in all

of your icing sugar, what you essentially have now is a buttercream cream cheese frosting,

which is lovely, but to this we're going to add in a little bit of milk to loosen it up

and then we're going to add in some flour. Now I know this seems kind of weird into a

frosting but this is what makes it like a cookie dough frosting, it makes it doughy,

it makes it stiffer and really good.

And last but not least, our chocolate chips because this is definitely what really makes

it chocolate chip cookie dough. And then just whisk it all together. And there you have

it, Cookie Dough Frosting. It is that easy. Now I like to add the cream cheese in it because

it kind of makes it a little bit salty and cuts the fat and sugar of the other

ingredients. This frosting is going to work really well with our brownie cake.

Our timer has gone off so let's check on our brownie cake. Oh, Wow! Look at that. There

is a little bit of a jiggle in the middle. It feels kind of soft here but this is exactly

how you want it because once it cools down it's still going to be nice and fudgie in

the middle. Perfect!

When your brownie cake is completely cold now is a really good time to frost it. You

can make this cake up to two days in advance or you can even freeze it because it freezes really well

I'm going to cut two layers into my brownie cake. I know this is homemade so if it's a

little bit crooked that's ok too. It's still going to taste great. Look at that. That is

exactly what you want the inside of your cake to look like. Nice and moist and fudgie. And

then continue cutting another layer. I'm going to cut two all together. Once you've cut all

of our layers, we're going to generously spread on our Cookie Dough Frosting. I like to spread

it on really thick and then bring it all the way out to the edges. It's a good idea to have

your frosting at room temperature before you decide to spread it on. It makes it a lot

easier. I'm lucky I have a little turntable to help me decorate. It makes my life so much

easier. But if you don't, don't worry. Just take your time. And then continue with the

next layer. Spread it on nice and thick because the frosting is one of the best parts. And

then top it off with the final layer. We're not done decorating yet. We're going to drizzle

some lovely warm ganache on top until it flows over the edges. And then of course I'm going to

pipe more Cookie Dough Frosting on top and then I'm going to sprinkle mini chocolate chips

all over for added effect. Look at that BIG & BOLD Brownie Layer Cake! I know my Bold

Bakers love fudgie brownies and cookies so you have to try this cake. It is unreal!

Ok. I have to stop eating this. One more.

Don't forget to come back this Monday for the start of my breakfast series. Thank you

so much for subscribing to my channel and I'll see you back here again next week for

more Bigger Bolder Baking.