Baileys Frosted Vanilla Cookie Layer Cake
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Baileys Frosted Vanilla Cookie Layer Cake is to die for! This delicious vanilla cake is so light and fluffy, it’s perfect for every kind of celebration.
Baileys Frosted Vanilla Cookie Layer Cake
So as you should know by now, I love my BAILEYS™ Coffee Creamers. They are the best for your morning coffee. I’ve gotten so that I can’t even deal with milk and sugar when I’m traveling. It’s just not the same. My mom even keeps her fridge stocked with it when I’m visiting. She knows what’s up.
And it adds the best flavor and moisture to desserts. I’ve used them in this poke cake, cupcakes, coffee cake, and this seriously amazing caramel blended coffee. I’m never disappointed.
But when I first heard about this new frosted vanilla cookie flavor, I couldn’t wait. I mean seriously, dying. I’ve been waiting all year for this! I’m so pumped to finally share it with you.
The cake layers have the creamer baked right into them, giving the cake the light flavor of sugar cookies. It’s a really light and fluffy cake that I’m so in love with. Plus, it’s nice and easy to make.
Tips for Making The Best Vanilla Layer Cake
One thing I’ll note about the mixing of the ingredients for the cake is the creaming of the butter and sugar. Be sure to fully cream them together, at least 2-3 minutes. You will actually see the butter and sugar mixture change to a lighter shade of yellow and become fluffy in texture. This is so important because it adds air to the batter and makes this cake so, so light.
The filling of the cake is super fun. It’s a buttercream, but it’s fairly different from your standard buttercream. To give it that signature vanilla cookie flavor, it’s full of BAILEYS™ Coffee Creamer Frosted Vanilla Cookie, cookie crumbs and even some flour. Crazy, right?! But spot on for the cookie flavor I was going for.
All the moisture soaks into the cookie crumbs and it’s almost like having cookie dough between the layers, but the result is so much lighter than actually cookie dough. It’s perfect with the cake. I used premade sugar cookies I got from our grocery store bakery. They make softer cookies, which are my preferred way.
The rest of the cake is frosted with buttercream that’s – you guessed it – filled with the creamer. ☺ When all combined, this is seriously one amazing cake with SO much flavor! I’m dying to make it again already.
And don’t let the décor intimidate you. It’s very easy. I actually just used the same store-bought sugar cookies I used for the filling of the cake. Feel free to decorate the cookies you use however you like (you could even decorate them with Christmas colors!), but I wanted mine to be frosted.
The ones I purchased weren’t pre-frosted (which is how I’d recommend to buy them so that they crush better for the filling), and they were a touch big, so I used a smaller cookie cutter to make them the right size, then iced them and added sprinkles. Easy peasy. And no additional baking involved. ☺ Just put those beauties right on your cake with a little bit of icing around the edge and some sprinkles and you’ve got one heck of a party in a cake!
This cake was a huge hit with everyone that tried it. Despite seeming like it could be rich, it’s actually very light. I took it to work and ended up with quite a swarm of people around who thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Baileys Frosted Vanilla Cookie Layer Cake
Baileys Frosted Vanilla Cookie Layer Cake is to die for! This delicious vanilla cake is so light and fluffy, it’s perfect for every kind of celebration.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 23 minutes
- Total Time: 43 minutes
- Yield: 12-14 Slices 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
CAKE
- 3/4 cup salted butter, room temp
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 6 egg whites
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 cup BAILEYS™ Coffee Creamer Frosted Vanilla Cookie
- 1/2 cup water
FILLING
- 1 cup salted butter, room temp
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 1/4 cups sugar cookie crumbs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup BAILEYS™ Coffee Creamer Frosted Vanilla Cookie
- 1 cup flour
FROSTING
- 3/4 cup salted butter
- 3/4 cup shortening
- 6 cups powdered sugar
- 6–7 tbsp BAILEYS™ Coffee Creamer Frosted Vanilla Cookie
Instructions
Notes
For the sugar cookie crumbs and the cookies on the cake, I used cookies from my grocery store bakery. They were plain sugar cookies to start, which is best for making the crumbs. I then cut the cookies to a smaller size with a cookie cutter and iced them. Feel free to decorate your cookies however you prefer to change up the look of your cake for your occasion.
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Enjoy!
Another beauty, Lindsay! I swear, you have the smoothest buttercream I have ever seen. Who needs fondant (which tastes yucky anyway) when they can have an even prettier cake with buttercream?
How cute is this cake! I love what you did with the filling, such a great idea to make it taste like a sugar cookie. I’m going to have to pick up some of that creamer! 🙂
Thanks Beth! 🙂
Another gorgeous cake! I can’t wait for your cookbook, though you have so many awesome cakes on your blog, I’m not sure what will be in it 🙂 I bought the tools you recommended for icing a smooth cake but have yet to try them. I’m sure they won’t come close to yours. Your cakes are always stunning. This one sounds delicious too!
Thanks Annette! I’m so glad you are excited for the cookbook. I hope it lives up to expectations. 🙂
I’m glad you were able to get the tools – I hope you find the tutorial helpful!
You never cease to amaze me with the cakes you come up with. Can we please be neighbors?
Really pretty cake.
yesssss! Cookies and cake!! And sprinkles!! And the filling might be my favorite part!!
Thanks Michelle!
OMG! so yummy and the decoration is perect, this is the perfect choice for a wedding party
Where would I find the creamer at? I looked online but the creamer isn’t available online. Is there another substitute that I could use?
I usually am able to find it at Walmart. If you still can’t find it, you could sub in the vanilla creamer. It’d still add that great moisture and vanilla flavor. And you’d still get the great cookie flavor from the filling.
Girl, you outdid yourself with this!
This is seriously the cutest cake ever. And I love that BAILEYS coffee creamer flavor, so delicious. My kids pour it into their hot cocoa 🙂
Thanks Aimee!
hola me encanta tu pagina es super me enloquecieron tus recetas son fantásticas ,pero soy de Colombia y no se ingles y cuando utilizo el traductor es un poco complicado mi pregunta es en muchas de tus recetas cuando se traducen las cantidades de los huevos aparecen en la traducion como claras de huevo mi pregunta son claras o huevos completos ejemplo como el la receta de BAILEYS™ Frosted Vanilla Cookie Layer Cake gracias por tu ayuda
Esta receta debe utilizar claras de huevo, huevos enteros no
Will this recipe work well as cupcakes also?
I would think so. It’d make probably 24 or so cupcakes. You could use the filling to fill the cupcakes.
The filling calls for flour- it appears to be raw. Is this safe to eat?
Do I have to use the creamer or is there a substitute I can use pr double some other liquid in the cake?
You could just use milk, or another creamer with similar flavor. I recently saw a “funfetti” creamer at the store, which would probably work well.