Death by Sugar

A couple of weeks ago my friend J. put a picture up on her Facebook wall that was truly inspiring.  It was of a dessert she made for her son's birthday.  My teenage son took one look at it and decided it would be perfect for his birthday as well.  So, we thought we'd document the decadence in case you'd like to try it for your next big celebration.  

As with most perfect things, this dessert is poetic in it's simplicity.  Just 4 ingredients- all of which you can buy ready made if you want to.

1. Chocolate chip cookie dough
2. Oreos (double stuffed is the only way to go)
3. Brownie mix.
4. Marshmallow cream (or is it creme??)  There's no milk in it at any rate.

We're a milk-free household due to a severe allergy in our family so we opted to make homemade chocolate chip cookie dough and a brownie mix that doesn't use milk.

First you line a 9X9 inch pan with waxed paper.  You could be really careful about it and get it all nice and pretty or you could just shove it in the pan like I did.  Next, spread the cookie dough into the bottom of the pan.  I cut the dough into slices and arranged them on the bottom and then squished it all around until there were no holes and it went all the way to the sides.

Now open the package of Oreos and eat two to make sure they aren't stale.  You might want to try another one just to be sure.  Once you're positive they aren't stale place them in the pan in a nice neat pattern.  If you're a bit creatively uptight like I am you will be very satisfied that they make 4 perfect rows of four- a square!  Everyone knows the squareroot of 16 is 4 and here you have your proof.  If you're into unschooling you could call it a day for math.  (Just kidding- really.  Unschoolers are misunderstood.)  I digress.

Now you're ready to put your brownie mix on top of the cookie/oreo concoction you've got going.  Smile.  This is going to be great.

Bake it all for 30 minutes.  Cool and frost with the marshmallow creme.

Put it in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve it.  Take a butter knife and poke around the sides to loosen the waxed paper and then pull the whole cake out by the paper.  Peal the paper off and put the cake on a plate.   As soon as you take the cake out of the fridge the marsmallow creme will start to run down the sides so hurry up and get your camera out if you want to take a picture of the layers.  Use your biggest knife to cut it into slices. 

 Sing to your special birthday person and enjoy.  If you have neighbors you like you could share with them.  Or not.  My husband declared that his heart was beating super fast after eating this.  I'd like to think it was just because we're still so in love after all these years.  Could be the sugar though.

Try it and let me know how it turns out!