This Cookie Dough Brownie Layer Cake with funfetti is a totally decadent treat! Layers of brownies and edible funfetti cookie dough are topped with a delicious chocolate ganache & more sprinkles!
Cookie Dough Brownie Layer Cake
So in marriage, one of the things we have to learn to do is share. Problem is, sometimes sharing isn’t easy. And sometimes sharing means someone else loses – as in loses something. As is loses the nail clippers that you both share. And sometimes that seems to happen over and over and over.
When that happens, there’s only one thing to do.
Not share any longer. 🙂
After going through countless nail clippers, we finally argued (jokingly) the other day about who keeps losing them. And of course we blame each other. And of course I’m right. I always put them back where they are supposed to go.
But he thinks the same thing of himself. He thinks it’s all my fault.
So when he came home the other day and saw two new nail clippers on the kitchen counter, he immediately started to tell me that one would be for me and one for him – as if that wasn’t why I’d gotten two to begin with.
And I one up-ed him. I was prepared with masking tape for us to label ours with our names so that there could be no confusion about whose is whose. Then time would tell who loses the clippers. Oh yes.
We then ran off to hide our clippers in different spots in the house where the other person can’t find them. That way, we can determine who is the one responsible for losing them by seeing who loses theirs first. It’s very scientific.
Of course I’m sure he’d rather grow claws than have to come and get my nail clippers and admit that he lost the battle! It may take some time, but I am sure that some day soon I will report my victory. 🙂
We gotta have a little fun, you know?
Like this cake – this cake is super fun! I mean, look at all those sprinkles! Don’t they just scream fun and happy?
I loved the peanut butter version of this cake so much, I decided to make a funfetti version. I have a bit of a funfetti addiction, so it was only natural that it would happen.
This cake is fairly simple to put together. The only baking required is for the brownies. I used a from scratch brownie, but you could definitely use a box mix if you prefer. You’d probably need two boxes to get enough batter for 3 brownies.
The brownies are filled with layers of the best cookie dough ever – cake batter! I used my beloved Funfetti Cake Mix, but you could use a white or yellow make mix too. The cookie dough is eggless, so no need to worry about baking. Just mix everything together!
They layers are held together with chocolate ganache and it makes a wonderful, rich combo!
I finished the cake off with more ganache on top, some chocolate icing and sprinkles. I even pressed sprinkles into the sides of the cookie dough layer. Is there such a thing as too many sprinkles? No? Ok, good. Because they are an early celebration of the day I win the toe nail clipper battle. 🙂
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Cookie Dough Brownie Layer Cake
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Ingredients
Brownies
- 1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 3 tsp vanilla extract
- 6 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder (I use Hershey’s Special Dark)
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
Cookie Dough
- 1 1/2 cup butter (softened)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- boxes (15.25 oz each) dry funfetti cake mix (heat treated)
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour (heat treated)
- 3-4 tbsp milk
- 4-5 tsp sprinkles
- 3/4 cup white chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
Chocolate Ganache
- 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips (divided)
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream (divided)
Chocolate Frosting
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp water (or milk)
- Sprinkles (for topping, if desired)
Instructions
- Line the bottoms of three 8-inch cake pans with parchment paper and grease the sides. Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Mix together the oil, sugar and vanilla extract.
- Add eggs and mix until well combined.
- Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
- Slowly add dry ingredients to the egg mixture until well combined.
- Pour the batter evenly into the 3 pans and spread evenly.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with a few crumbs.
- Remove brownies from oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes in the pan, then remove to cool on wire rack.
- While brownies cool, make cookie dough.
To Make the Cookie Dough:
- Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, about 3-4 minutes.
- Mix in vanilla extract.
- With the mixer on low speed, add 1 entire box of dry cake mix, plus 1 1/2 cups from another box of cake mix and mix until combined.
- Add 1 cup flour and mix until combined.
- Add milk and up to an additional 1/3 cup of flour to preferred thickness.
- Stir in sprinkles and chocolate chips. Dough will be thick. Set aside.
To Assemble Cake:
- Once the brownies are cool, it’s time to put the layers together. You can pile the cookie dough onto the brownies, stack the layers and leave messy layers, or use the method I used for having clean edges/sides of the cake.
- Place half of chocolate chips in a metal bowl.
- Microwave half of the heavy cream until it starts to boil. Remove from microwave and pour over chocolate chips.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap for 5-7 minutes.
- Whisk chocolate and cream until smooth.
- Using one of the same 8-inch cake pans that you baked the brownies in, put parchment paper or saran wrap in the bottom and up the sides of the pan. You will use it to lift the layers out of the pan.
- Place the first brownie into the bottom of the pan.
- Add about 3 tbsp of chocolate ganache on top of the brownie and spread into a thin layer. This will help the cookie dough stick to the brownie.
- Put half of the cookie dough into the pan and spread evenly on top of the brownie.
- Remove the first two layers from the cake pan and place on it's serving dish.
- Repeat steps 7-10 with the second brownie and remaining cookie dough. Then remove from pan.
- Put another 3 tbsp of chocolate ganache on top of the cookie dough layer from the first section of cake and spread thinly.
- Place the second section of cake onto the first.
- Put another 3 tbsp of chocolate ganache on top of the cookie dough layer on top (the fourth layer) and spread thinly.
- Top with remaining brownie. Press sprinkles into sides of cookie dough, if desired.
To Finish Off the Cake:
- Place remaining chocolate chips in a metal bowl.
- Microwave remaining heavy cream until it starts to boil. Remove from microwave and pour over chocolate chips.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap for 5-7 minutes.
- Whisk chocolate and cream until smooth.
- Allow to sit for a few minutes until it just starts to thicken, then pour over the top of the cake.
- Place cake in refrigerator and make the chocolate icing.
- To make the icing, beat the shortening and butter together until smooth.
- Slowly add the powdered sugar and cocoa and mix until smooth.
- Add water or milk and mix until smooth.
- Remove cake from fridge, and pipe icing onto the top edge of the cake. Top with sprinkles.
Nutrition
The nutrition facts provided are calculated using a third-party tool and are estimates only. Actual nutritional content may vary based on the ingredients and brands you use, as well as portion sizes. For accurate results, please consult a registered dietitian or nutritionist.
Enjoy!
This is amazing! Love this blog :]
Thank you so much Jacqueline! 🙂
Speechless.
Sharing is very difficult no matter if it is this delicious piece of cake or nail clippers! I’m the worst about taking things and then not putting them back where they belong. And I’m pretty sure I could never share a piece of this cake because it looks incredible!
Thanks Ashley! I’ve certainly been the guilty one before. I think we just like to give each other a hard time. 🙂
Brownies, cookie dough, chocolate, all my favorites. Pinned!
Thanks for pin Cathy! 🙂
You make the most intense & over the top desserts and I completely love them all! This one looks fantastic!
Thank you so much Angelyn!! 🙂
I need to invent a special occasion so I can have an excuse to make this over the top amazing cake!
This looks incredible!!!! Will have to try this very soon. Wow, can’t stop looking at your amazing photos and baking skills.
Thank you Janara! I hope you get to try it!
You’ve done it again Lindsay! OMG this looks awesome! Can’t wait to try it!
Thanks Jaren!
I can’t wait to arrive at your house for the weekend!!! FACE PLANT! Good golly, but that is one beautiful creation! Oh, and can I borrow the nail clippers?
Oh madre! I can’t wait to see you! 🙂
Oh my that cake looks amazing. Your pictures make me drool.
I only have one word for this cake…
EPIC!
Thanks Betsy!
Hahaha, I may or may not have recently had an argument with my husband about him misplacing certain things of mine, repeatedly…. but then I found them. Oops! Anyway, I LOVE this. And I think I need to make it this week. Or at least for my birthday next month. This is pretty much all my cake dreams come true.
Oh yes, I’ve done that too. 🙂
oh my gawd! another insane creation! Wow! this Funfetti Cake Batter Cookie Dough Brownie Layer Cake is crazy!! this is like a kid’s dream!!! 🙂 love it and love the nail clippers story! 😛
Oh my goodness, I’m laughing here over your nail clippers story! We’ve resorted to 2 sets of clippers too, but the kids keep stealing(and losing them). Maybe we should attach a string to the end and secure it somewhere? Anyway, this cake is just something I want to stare at all day. Just beautiful!
Thanks Heather! I’m sure adding kids to the mix makes it even harder! 🙂
Wow!that is goregeous!
Looks amazing!
Separate nail clippers and separate bathrooms (if possible) = key to happy marriage!
I need to live at your house. Seriously. How do you live with all of this deliciousness? I can’t keep looking at this pics because they’re too blindingly beautiful.
Omg, I have to get it out of the house as fast as I can. Otherwise I’d eat it all.
I made the cookie dough/brownie/funfetti cake, as requested for a birthday. I followed the recipe exactly, and my cake is the image of the cake picture posted. Even as I was making this cake I wondered how anyone could eat it, but as it was a request I continued. It is truly an inedible, heavy mass of fat and sugar. Nobody ate more than a morsel. Yes, it is pretty, but disgusting.
Absolutely disguting! This cake looks gorgeous, but is waaaay too overloaded with sugar. It does not taste good whatsoever!!