This post may contain affiliate links.Please read our disclosure policy.If you have a September birthday, this is the cake I would make you.

This Cookie Dough Cake has two vanilla bean yellow cake layers with a layer of cookie dough dip in the center.The buttercream has vanilla bean flecks and it should suit all the Virgos and Libras in your life.Hi, happy September! It’s my birthday month! And I made my own birthday cake! It’s a chocolate chip cookie dough cake! This cookie dough cake is actually a double batch of my mini vanilla cake with my cookie dough dip sandwiched between the layers.

I double the recipe for my vanilla buttercream recipe, but opted to use vanilla bean paste instead of extract.I made this cookie dough cake because I wanted to bake something fun that is a little out of the ordinary for me.Elaborate, over-the-top desserts that are super sweet aren’t normally my thing.

I would definitely never combine my cookie dough with cake and buttercream on a regular Tuesday.It’s mildly excessive, but it’s very birthday.I adore it.

This is a small layer cake made of two six-inch cake layers.I use a special 6″ cake pan for this.It’s the cake pan that I use for all of my small cake recipes here on this site.

Here is the exact one I use.I love it because it has 2″ sides, not 3″ tall sides.Extra height on a cake pan can make your cake sink while cooling, unless your recipe is designed for it.

My cookie dough cake reci

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