Girl Scout Cookie Upside-Down Cake

Ingredients:

Cake:

½ cup unsalted butter

¼ cup unsweetened cocoa

¾ cup lightly packed premium unsweetened natural cocoa
1½ tablespoons canola oil

½ cup water
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar

½ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon fine sea salt

¼ cup buttermilk
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 sleeve Girl Scout cookies, chopped (I used Do-Si-Dos)

Frosting:

¼ cup unsalted butter
1/8 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoons milk
1½ cups powdered sugar

1 cookie for garnish

Directions:

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan. 
2. Melt ½ cup the butter in a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the cocoa (¼ cup). Add the oil and water and bring to a rolling boil for 30 seconds. 
3. Remove the pan from the heat and set it aside to cool slightly. 
4. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
5. Pour the warm cocoa mixture into the dry ingredients and whisk until just combined. 
6. In a separate bowl, whisk together the buttermilk (or soured milk), egg, and vanilla. 
7. With a rubber spatula, stir the buttermilk mixture into the batter. 
8. Spread chopped cookies evenly in the bottom of your prepared pan. Pour the batter over the top and place in the center of the oven. Bake until the top is firm and the cake starts to pull away from the sides of the pan – about 30 minutes. 
9. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack to finish cooling. 

Make the frosting:

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the cocoa and bring the mixture to a rolling boil; boil for 30 seconds. 
2. Remove from heat and whisk in the milk and vanilla. 
3. Add the confectioners’ sugar ½ cup at a time while whisking continuously.
4. Immediately pour the frosting over the cake (the cake should be bottom-side, i.e. flat-side, up), spreading with a spatula. The frosting will harden pretty quickly. Sprinkle an extra crumbled cookie on top.

Source: Mollie Zapata, Eat. Run. Read.

Candy Corn Oreo Craze: Does it live up to its hype?

The internet is abuzz today with a photo of Candy Corn Oreos making the rounds. The Oreo camp has confirmed to HuffPost Food that they are indeed real and they will be available exclusively at Target for a suggested retail price of $3.59.

The cookie is a limited edition (Halloween season, clearly) and several blogs are racing to try them (stay tuned, we've got people ON IT as well. Our friends at Foodbeast snagged some). From the looks of the product shot, the cream center is half orange and half yellow. There's a strange amount of excitement going on about these, but we wonder if it is sheer amazement or sheer horror. If they are anything as good as Birthday Cake Oreos, we're in.

Foodbeast managed to get their hands on a package at a local Target and found that the Oreos tasted pretty much like frosting:

If no one had told you they were candy corn flavor, chances are you would have never guessed it was themed after the popular Halloween candy. There’s a slight hint of candy corn flavoring, but it’s almost indistinguishable from birthday cake frosting flavors.

Source: Huffington Post