This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie was selected by Peggy of Pantry Revisited: brown sugar bundt cake. Dorie’s version included fruit (pears and prunes) as well as ground nuts in lieu of additional all-purpose flour and that probably would have sounded lovely to me in the fall. Here in May, though, I wanted something more basic and something I could count on Shane to help me eat. I decided to turn the cake into one big chocolate chip cookie. No nuts and no fruit here – instead, I added a heaping handful of chocolate chips. I halved the recipe and baked it in a 6-cup bundt pan for about 30-32 minutes.
My favorite chocolate chip cookies are soft and cakey and honestly, I’m all about the dough/cookie portion. Just one or two chocolate chips per cookie would be totally fine with me. A slice of this cake was pretty much the chocolate chip cookie of my dreams. The cake is incredibly tender and fluffy, sweet but not too sweet, with the perfect ratio of cake to chips. Like the best cookies, I couldn’t stop eating the dough and once the cake was baked, I couldn’t walk through my kitchen without sneaking a bite. I left it in the spot last night before I went to bed so Shane would bring it to work today but when I woke up, it was still on the counter. I’m in trouble; I might have to hide it from myself today. My one minor complaint about the cake – a lot of the chips sank to the bottom of the batter, so next time I’d try tossing them with a little bit of the flour mixture before adding them.
Many thanks to Peggy for hosting this week! You can find the recipe for the bundt cake on her blog or on page 179 of Baking: From My Home to Yours.
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That looks great with the chocolate chips. I made the all hazelnut variation. I love fall baking so much that I bake with those flavors year ’round. Your cake looks picture perfect.
Chocolate Chip Brown Sugar Bundt Cake Cookie. And Shane DIDN’T take it to work. You think he wants to keep this one to himself. I would.
Yum! I love your chocolate chip idea. I think I’m going to steal it once I get a chance to make it. Maybe later today, depending on how I’m feeling. I’m also envious of your 6-cup pan. Like I don’t have enough pans already… =)
I am with you on everything except the chocolate chip proportions…I like 10-12 per cookie for myself.
Great twist on this recipe, Tracey. My family wouldn’t touch the fruit version, but they’d dive into this!
I almost did chocolate chips, too. But then I just got my hands on some good butterscotch chips, so I decided to try them out. This one looks delicious!
I love the chocolate chips in this! And that is a beautiful photo. Thanks for baking along with me this week!
This looks delicious with the chocolate chips.
Yummy… I love bundt cake and just recently was given a new bundt pan! Can’t wait to give this a try!
Ciao Tracy ! I had a sinking problem too but it was good anyway !!
I like the dough part of cookies, too. It’s so buttery and delicious. I’m thinking this would be addictive to me, too, but I’m putting it on my list of things to make anyway.
When it comes to cookies I’m all about the chips, but for this cake, the stir-ins were optional. That brown sugar cake part was really delicious! Your bundt is so pretty and I’m glad it met your ideal flavor profile
Yum, I want that slice 🙂
Beautiful bundt….and the thought of one giant cookie….perfection.
I love the look of this cake. I crash every day at about 3 pm and it looks like the perfect pick me up with afternoon tea.
Yummy cake! This looks wonderful.
That looks delicious but I think I would have to add more chocolate chips 😉
This was really good cake, I’m glad you went with the chocolate chips instead of the fruit!
The fruit version did sound fall-like. Brown sugar with chocolate chips would be delicious!
I think this cake is a sleeper hit – it seems to be incredibly versatile. No nuts and fruit? Why not? I love the idea of a chocolate chip cookie cake.
Guys would be supporting this chocolate chip idea with thumbs up…it looks pretty that way, too! I need to go and make this one as I was busy and skipped it. Shame on me, everyone is raving about it.