While doing a little spring cleaning around the house, I stumbled upon my copy of Baked: Explorations and decided to flip through the pages (mostly because I was procrastinating. What else is new?). I’ve made quite a few recipes (ahem Malted Waffles & Farmstand Buttermilk Doughnuts) from the book…and yet I keep coming back for more. I find all of their interesting combinations incredibly alluring.
What was the hook that brought me back? A cake for the cookie lover– also known as this Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting! A cake that will tame the cookie & cake-loving voice inside your head that tells you YOU MUST HAVE CAKE and YOU MUST HAVE COOKIES and you MUST HAVE THEM RIGHT NOW. This voice & I go way back. The problem is this voice always wants both. Now this voice is like…Cool Tracy…This will tide me over. Now get me another slice. Make it an edge piece. What other two awesome things can we combine? Melted Cheese & Tater Tots? Cool. Cool.
This cake is super simple to prepare. At first you think you’re eating carrot cake (cream cheese frosting!) and then you think you’re eating banana bread and suddenly you bite into a chocolate chip and there it is…something cookie and cake-like. A cake that tastes like cookie! It should be made & eaten on only days that end in Y.
