Like, I need to have chocolate every day of my life.
Not just “once a month” or when I am feeling “naughty”.
Chocolate for me is like air to, well, everybody.
If I don’t have it, I go through withdrawal symptoms.
I can’t even think of the last time I went a day without chocolate.
OMG.
I just figured out the title of my someday probably never to be written memoir.
I can see it now.
On clearance.
In the back of the store.
By the books on tape.
One of my favorite all-time cookie recipes is the Rolo Cookie.
Here are the details and the recipe.
Basically, it is the Tom Selleck of the cookie world.
If you like Tom Selleck, that is.
Maybe that’s a little dated.
OK, it is the Ryan Gosling of the cookie world for you Ryan Gosling people out there.
I don’t get the whole “Ryan Gosling” thing.
Sorry.
Don’t see it.
At all.
Earlier this spring, I had a craving for the elusive Rolo Cookie.
But the Rolo Cookie comes with steps and it isn’t that easy to make.
So lazy and hungry me decided that what if I made a whole cake with Rolo candy in it as to surpass the whole rolling balls of dough around each individual Rolo candy?
Would it work??
Could it be that easy???
So I started out with these ingredients:
A boxed cake mix, I used Devil’s Food because that is the same mix I used for the Cliffs Notes version of the cookie.
Rolo candy, frosting, and sugar.
I don’t want to hear it from health food purists.
STOP RUINING THE FUN FOR EVERYONE.
WE ALL KNOW HOW UNHEALTHY THIS IS.
MOVE. ALONG.
PEOPLE BACK IN THE DAY USED TO EAT LARD.
LARD.
AND LIVED TO BE 102.
I made the cake mix according to the package, poured half of it into the pan and topped with the Rolo candies and poured the rest over the top of the Rolo’s.
No rhyme or reason.
You can even see the lumps of batter that didn’t get blended.
I can never get those out.
Because LAZY.
Sprinkle some sugar on top of the cake.
Because you know, it isn’t sweet enough.
Bake the cake according to the package directions.
This is what it looked like when it came out of the oven:
Like what the surface of the Moon must look like.
But it smelled AMAZING.
After it cooled, I spread frosting all over the top.
I can’t take a good cake picture.
Unless I am not the one making the cake.
Then I probably could.
It was so good.
Messy good.
Like caramel oozing on your fingers good.
I will tweak this though, maybe use a homemade cake recipe but the idea is good.
And I didn’t have to make dough balls.
So there’s that.
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Rolo Cake
As good as rolo cookies only in cake form.
- 1 box of Devils Food cake mix (or any other chocolate cake mix of your choosing)
- 1/2 bag of Rolo candies (unwrapped)
- I container of chocolate frosting
- Prepare the cake to package directions.
- Put half of the batter into a 9×13 pan (sprayed with cooking spray) and top that with the unwrapped Rolo candies.
- Layer the rest of the cake mix batter on top of the candies.
- Bake according to package directions.
- When cooled, frost cake and serve.
You said dough balls. Hee-hee. I only have chocolate when I'm feeling naughty. I feel naughty every day.
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Naughty Shannon.DOUGH BALLS.
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I haven't had your Rolo cookies in a while so get crackin! You know what's really good too are those Raspberry Cream Cheese Tarts that you made.
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I gained 5 pounds just reading this. But it looks so so so so good.
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It is SOO SOO GOOD.
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Those were good AND low fat.Unless you eat 10 like we did.
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Plus an entire cake frees you from that possibility of viewing one cookie as a serving…a whole cake might be one serving and you are just grazing by eating only a quarter of it.
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NO YOU DID NOT JUST PUT ROLOS IN THE MIDDLE OF A CHOCOLATE CAKE. I require this.
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What a great idea! I LOVE Rolos (what's not to love?), and this looks ridiculously delicious. Plus I love your admonition for health food nuts to move along, thank you very much. What's life without a few desserts?Thank you for linking this to Grace at Home. I'm featuring you this week!
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This is how I think.EXACTLY how I think.
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YEAH I DID.BOOM.
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Thank you so much Richella!
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That sounds delicious! I totally get the must have chocolate every day.. even on WW I save enough points to at least eat two little squares of Dove chocolate every day. Yesterday I happily by-passed lunch for a dove dark chocolate vanilla ice cream bar. It may have been 1/2 my daily points but Oh so worth it!! Pinned.
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I miss this SO MUCH on low-carb! This is why I love WW because you don’t feel like you are cheating yourself of every yummy thing.
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