TARDIS Cake...

...It's more fattening on the inside.

For my recent birthday, I requested that my cake be decorated like a TARDIS.  This was awkward because I then had to explain what a TARDIS is and print a picture of it so my mom knew what it was supposed to look like.  Even more fun ensued on my birthday when I tried to explain it to my dad.  He chooses to not understand such things on principle.

Anyway, after making my TARDIS request, I started thinking about the cake that was to come.  I decided that in order to live up to TARDIS standards, there would have to be a bit more to the cake than just a box mix with some dyed frosting.  It would somehow have to be bigger on the inside.  Since our kitchen is not equipped with any Gallifreyan technology, I would have to come up with a creative way to make this happen.

One of my great dessert obsessions is cookie dough.  I'm assuming that this applies to a lot of people.  Thanks to Pinterest, I came across a recipe for egg-less cookie dough a while back.  This seemed like the perfect opportunity to put it to good use.  My sister and I immediately set out to create the perfect bigger/more fattening on the inside cake.  (Yes, I helped make my own birthday cake.  I really like baking things.  I did at least claim birthday privileges and make her clean everything up.)

Do you have any idea how hard it was to not just eat these straight up?

We made the cookie dough and then rolled it into small balls and put them in the freezer on a cookie sheet for an hour.  Then we made a chocolate cake mix and poured it into the baking pan.  Right before putting it in the oven, we dropped the cookie dough balls on top of the batter.  We had enough cookie dough to almost completely cover the top of the cake.  We baked the cake according to the directions on the box, but had to add a few extra minutes (probably because of the fact that the cookie dough was frozen).  The cookie dough bits sank to the bottom of the pan and remained in their delicious, uncooked glory.  We flipped the cake upside down out of the baking pan, which perfectly positioned the cookie dough at the top right underneath the frosting, thus bringing together my two favorite parts of the cake together in harmony.

The hardest part of the cake process was trying to find food coloring that would dye the cream cheese frosting a proper TARDIS blue.  The regular liquid food coloring just doesn't do the trick.  It never did get quite right, but there's only so much you can do.  Color aside, the cake was delightful.

Look at that delectable layer of cookie dough.  My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Here's the edible cookie dough recipe:

1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
4 tbsp milk
1 tbsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips

1.  Blend the butter and sugars together.  Then add the milk and vanilla.
2.  Mix in the flour and salt until smooth.  Add extra milk if the consistency of the dough is too dry.
3.  Stir in the chocolate chips.
4.  Shape the dough into small balls and place on a wax-lined cookie sheet.
5.  Freeze for at least one hour (or just eat them if you're not planning on using them in a cake).