FROSTED CIRCUS ANIMAL COOKIE CAKE

This Frosted Circus Animal Cookie Cake is made with pink and white layers of vanilla cake, filled with a crushed up frosted animal cookie filling and covered in white chocolate buttercream! It’s so much like eating frosted animal cookies in cake form and I love it!

This Frosted Animal Cookie Layer Cake, which I suppose you could also call a Circus Animal Cookie Cake, is everything I wanted it to be. Pink and white, full of frosted animal cookies, with plenty of white chocolate frosting. If there’s a heaven for frosted animal cookie lovers, this is it.

INGREDIENTS

VANILLA CAKE

• 2 1/2 cups (325g) all purpose flour
• 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup (168g) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups (337g) sugar
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 4 large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 cups (300ml) milk
• Pink gel icing color
• Ivory gel icing color

FROSTED ANIMAL COOKIE FILLING

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 1/2 cups (317g) frosted animal cookie crumbs
• 1 cup (115g) powdered sugar
• 7–8 tbsp milk or water
• 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
• Pinch of salt
• 15 frosted animal cookies, crumbled

WHITE CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM

• 1 1/4 cups (280g) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 12 oz white chocolate chips, melted
• 6 cups (690g) powdered sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 5–6 tbsp (60-75ml) heavy whipping cream
• Sprinkles

PINK CHOCOLATE GANACHE

• 6 oz white chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
• Pink gel icing color

INSTRUCTIONS

1. To make the cake layers, prepare two 8 inch cake pans with parchment paper circles in the bottom and grease the sides. Preheat oven to 350°F (176°C).
2. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium sized bowl and set aside.
3. Add the butter, sugar and vegetable oil to a large mixer bowl and beat together until light in color and fluffy, about 3-4 minutes. Do not skimp on the creaming time.
4. Add the eggs and mix until completely combined and smooth. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed to be sure all ingredients are well incorporated.
5. Add half of the dry ingredients to the batter and mix until mostly combined.

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