Cookie.....Cake?

I've seen in the stores these wonderful looking cookie cakes. They look delicious but I've never had or bought one so I thought I'd try making one. I still had some white/milk chocolate chip cookie batter left over. Speaking of that batter, my brother said it was more of an adhesive so that we could just eat straight chocolate chips, which I'm ok with, because they are delicious cookies!
Back to the cake issue though. I had some problems to say the least. I coated the pan with butter and then floured the heck out of it so the cookie would come out safely. Filled the pan with the batter and smoothed it out as best as possible. In the oven it went at 375, and let it cook. Cooking went semi ok. There was just the issue of the outside started to burn or more so over cook, and the inside was still gooey and delicious looking. I let it set up so it could harden a bit. Unfortunately now the cookie refuses to get out of the pan. This makes me very sad. I will make an update with a picture of the giant cookie stuck in a pan now once I complete the next task.

The reason for this project is tomorrow is Father's day and I wanted to do something nice for my dad. This failed. Horribly. I will still bring this for him but I am also going to try and make a different cake, which will hopefully be as equally as tasty.

This will be worked on after dinner is started, and I will post picture updates about this.
I worked from this recipe Fun Cake Time. If you do not want to visit this website the recipe is as follows
Basic Yellow Cake

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (do not sift the flour)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1-teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups milk
Vegetable oil
1 stick butter (not margarine), softened
1-tablespoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs

Preheat oven to 350°

Cut wax paper to fit the bottom of (3) 9 x 1 1/2-inch round pans. Spray the pans with cooking spray, place the wax paper in the pans and spray the paper.

In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, mixing well.

Measure the 1-1/4 cups of milk in a 2 cup measuring cup….then add enough vegetable oil to bring the liquid up to 1-1/3 cups.

Add the milk/vegetable oil mixture, butter and vanilla to the flour mixture and beat with an electric mixer on medium to medium-high speed for 2 minutes, scraping sides of bowl as needed.

Add the eggs and continue beating an additional 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pans.

Bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near center of cake comes out clean, or until cake springs back when touched lightly in the center.

Cool cakes on wire racks for 15 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely.

Frost as desired.


However, I had to make some alterations given the ingredients in the house. Instead of the grain sugar, I used approximately 3 cups of powdered sugar. I didn't have crisco to grease the pan so I used butter and flour. Speaking of the pan, We did not have round pans so I just used a pyrex pan. Seems like it cooked ok, only a bit of it is "over" done but not burned. I think mine took lover than 25 minutes but I didn't actually time it I just checked it every so often by stabbing it.
The website said that it was supposed to be a mix of two types of recipes. A traditional Pound Cake, and a yellow cake mix. I am finding that I really enjoy making cake from scratch, it just has a more unique flavor and is tasty. The cake is currently cooling off, but it feels like a denser yellow cake. I am going to make a frosting in the morning for it, unless I get an urge to do that before bed tonight.
I will update this post tomorrow about how the cake tastes and things like that. I unfortunately have no pictures of the creation process because my batteries were dead and I didn't have time to charge them before making the cake. I should have pictures tomorrow of the finished product though.

~Luna Rae Anselm