What do you make the man that doesn’t really like sweets or desserts of any kind? That is the problem I face every year for my husband’s birthday. I would LOVE to bake him something, but he could really care less about baked goods of any kind His one (or two) exceptions are Oreos and Cookies n’ Cream ice cream. 

A couple years ago I made him Cookies n’ Cream ice cream cupcakes to bring his love of cookies n’ cream ice cream to a cake (with a lot less hassle). And since I didn’t want to have to fuss with trying to make a whole ice cream cake, I decided to work the cookies n’ cream flavor into the icing.

This icing is freaking amazing. It is a cross between a cream cheese and a butter cream. So it is a little bit more rich and tangy than a normal buttercream, but didn’t have an overwhelming cream cheese flavor. It was the perfect vehicle for the cookie crumbs. And the creaminess of the icing pairs perfectly with the chocolate cake. 

{FYI – the pictures are of the little mini cake I made for the blog. His full cake was decorated like a putting green, which will be on a later post. The recipe posted below is for a full cake.)

I topped each cake layer with a generous amount of the cookies n’ cream icing. Once the top layer was placed on top, I lightly iced the whole cake in plain icing, then popped it back in the fridge to chill. After 30 minutes or so, I covered the rest of the cake in the cookies n’ cream icing. 

For a little added crunch and texture, I patted even more crushed cookies around the base of the cake. 

And a few more to the top. 

This was a wonderfully decadent cake that was equally rich and creamy. The cookies n’ cream icing substituted perfectly for the ice cream so much that my husband didn’t even miss his ice cream cake. 

Chocolate cake recipe is adapted from How to Cake It, which is an amazing blog and YouTube channel you have to check out if you like cake decorating!

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