Sharing my Gooey Cookies and Cream Double Chocolate Cake Bars with you today!
You are in for such a treat with my Gooey Cookies and Cream Double Chocolate Cake Bars recipe! This bar is just that…over the top and decadent. With just a few simple pantry ingredients, you’ll have this fun recipe staring right at ya, lol! My mom and I whipped this together last week and we are glad we did. Chocolate overload! Exactly how I like it.
Enjoy another crazy bar from Moi 🙂
You’ll need a Devil’s food cake mix, 1 egg and 1 stick softened butter (1/2 cup/8 tablespoons). Mix, Mix, Mix.
I use my hands to mix and you’ll get a firm dough like so.
Break it in chunks and place evenly into a 9×13 inch baking pan.
Press into pan until even.
I’ve baked a thing or two with these bad boys haven’t I? Take 14 of them and break them into pieces.
Place them evenly over top.
Pour a 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk over top of cookies like my sweet mom is doing here 🙂
Why not add some chocolate chips right?
Once cooled, cut into squares and be prepared to swoon! Enjoy 🙂
Gooey Cookies and Cream Chocolate Cake Bars
Ingredients
- 1 Devils Food Cake Mix 9 x 13 size
- 8 tablespoons 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 14 Oreo Cookies broken into bite size pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and line a 9x13 inch baking pan with tin foil sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
- Place cake mix, butter and egg into a large bowl, mixing to combine. Use your hands, it works much quicker 🙂 Press into prepared baking pan. Top with broken pieces of cookies.
- Pour sweetened condensed milk over cookies and top with chocolate chips. Bake for 23-25 minutes, until cooked through. Remove from oven.
- After 5 minutes of cooling, run a plastic knife around edges to loosen, this makes it much easier to remove from foil. Let cool completely, remove foil from pan, then cut into squares. I cut off all of the edges before cutting into squares (makes for neater squares), but do whatever you'd like!!
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Can I use any chocolate cake mix or does it have to be devils food cake?
I assume you used semi-sweet chocolate chips, which im not a huge fan of do you think white chocolate chips would work?
girl, I didn’t invent this recipe but white chocolate chips are good on everything! Do it!
These look AMAZING! I’ll be making these for sure! My hubby doesn’t love chocolate as much so I think I’ll make home blondies and use the vanilla oreos and white chocolate chips for him! YUUUUUM! THANKS!
How long will these keep? I am looking for new recipes to send to my fiance’ who is stationed in Germany and it takes about a week for packages to get to him. I usually send homemade cookies, but I’m thinking these wouldn’t keep that long in a box going through the postal system because of the sweetened condensed milk :-/
Made these with mint oreos!! So delicious, love all of your recipes and the variety that I can easily add to them, endless possibilities!
Made these tonight and they were AWESOME!!!!
OH. MY. GOODNESS. This sounds heavenly!!! I’m gonna make it tonight for my hubby. It’s our four year anniversary and he loves all things Oreo! 🙂
OMG, I love that you use sweetened condensed milk. I love this stuff but it’s so heavy! Wonderful recipe!!!
I have a pan in the oven now. Can’t wait to try them at the lake party where I am taking them to share with friends. I don’t know that I can wait till tomorrow to sample them, though!
These were ridiculous!!!!!! (in a good way)!! I have a sweet tooth and love evwrythig sweet and usually can eat lots without feeling sick but this my friends.. Is sooo perfect and sweet youll only
Need a bit! Gooey and warm, and with vanilla ice cream it was to die for!
Although after 25 mins the cake base rly didnt look baked tru at all when i ran a knife around the edge it wasnt baked so i put it back in the oven for about 10 mins. And even after that it was rly rly gooey. I let it sit on the counter for a bit, then put it in the fridge and the nxt day they were all set and perfect 🙂
Just put em in the microwave or in the oven right b4 u eat them and then add ice cream its DELISHHH i made them for my in laws and they talked about my bars for days haha
Oh btw i put 20 oreos instead of 14, and also 1 cup white choc chips and 1/2 cup regular choc chips instead of all regular choc chips amazing!
Thanks a lot for this recipe youre the best!
These were delicious! I made them and took them to school to share and everyone loved them! I posted this recipe on my own blog and my sister commented that these are like brownies that my family made growing up, but we used caramel instead of the condensed milk. Thanks for the amazingness!
Thanks for sharing Samantha!! Love to hear it!
I just made these for no apparent reason and am pleased to say they look just like the picture! And taste lush – salty, sweet and very chocolatey.
Do you generally use double stuff or regular oreos?
Well I just made it and it’s not pretty. Frothy, bubbly, didn’t cook evenly. I think it could eaten with a spoon, not at all cake like and I baked it much longer than the recipe called for. Perhaps I used too much condensed milk………
I’m thinking these might need a little coconut sprinkled on top! I can hardly wait to give that a try 🙂
A friend and I baked these up with our kiddos but found the base (cake) to be gritty. Love the idea of the cookies, sweetened condensed milk, and chocolate chips though. Maybe on top of a brownie?
I’ve been checking your blog out for a while and just made these last night – soo yummy and so easy. Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed Kim!
I made these last night and everybody loves them…will be making these again!!!
My husband and I made these this weekend and they were, quite simply, divine. My 3-year-old son gobbled it up, but my 14-month-old daughter’s reaction was priceless. After the first bite, she broke out in a huge grin, nodded her head firmly, let out a “Yummmmmm”, then threw her spoon on the floor and leaned into my bowl with her mouth wide open for more. I can’t wait to try more from your site — thank you for making a recipe we all LOVE!
These were super yummy! I think they were especially good after chilling in the fridge.
Thank you for leaving this comment! I am making these to bring into work tomorrow, and I didn’t know if I needed to get up early and make them or put them in the fridge overnight. You answered my question!
Made these this morning and lets just say the pan was half gone in no time! yummy!
I just made this and they came out just like the picture and fabulous! Thank you so much Jenny!
Charmaine, in my opinion, the only thing that may have caused this is if you forgot the step of spreading the batter evenly at the bottom of the pan? Maybe you left it in chunks?
WOW. I went to chocolate heaven looking at these. Neat idea!
oh. my. goodness. i am literally drooling over my keyboard at work right now looking at these babies. can’t wait to try them!! i thank you for this recipe, but my waist line does not 😉
I can not stress enough just how awesome you are! These look amazing.
Holy Cow! These look ridiculous! Cannot wait to try them! Thanks so much for all the yummy recipes. 😉
OMJ! I’m in chocolate heaven!
This is one of those recipes that is baffling. I do not know how your recipe looked as it did completed unless you baked your cake crust first. I was very careful with all the ingredients and amounts. All of that Sweetened C milk sunk to the bottom along with the choc chips and oreos and the cake part bubbled to the top in a strange crater like fashion. Something is not right in this recipe. This is really sad and a waste of some not so cheap ingredients.
I followed the recipe as noted here, and mine turned out identical to the picture.
Thank you for the feedback Ashley!!
Mine just came out of the oven and are PERFECT. Jenny, where did you come up with the idea to only mix those three ingredients and it would turn out so wonderful? I don’t know how you think of your recipes, but I am thankful that you do. I have never had one I didn’t like. As a matter of fact, your recipes are the only ones I bake with my boyfriend’s children. Every one of them is a hit!
I am referring to the base when I say three ingredients!
Charmaine, I am really stumped. I feel like I wrote out the recipe as simply as possible. Sorry they didn’t work out for you.
I made this today as written and it turned out just like the picture too! Don’t think there is anything wrong with the recipe. Other than maybe one might eat the entire pan.
I had the same problem, Charmaine. I know I followed the directions, but my end result looked nothing like the pictures. I wonder why?
Did you possibly use evaporated milk instead of sweetened condensed milk? They both come in cans and the evaporated milk is not as thick and could cause it all to separate out like you said. One possible reason it didn’t work…
When you bake it for 25 min. is it still supposed to be loose like when you shake the pan or firm and a clean knife?
I just accidentally used evaprated milk… I sure hope it at least tastes ok
This dish will run over if the pan is not big enough. My first batch did the same as your. Once I increased the pan size they turned out perfect. Also, I was able to get all the ingredients at Family Dollar for $6!
I had the exact same thing happen. I’m no baking novice, here, so I’m stumped as well. (I have made plenty of cakes from scratch, and down to some of the simplest treats around.) The only guess I have is that baking in a glass dish is the problem, and I should have used metal? Also, I used half mint Oreos and the mint filling definitely has some different additives because that melted all over the place, but I don’t think it would have caused this total failure. My oven is only 6 months old and so has no temperature regulation problems. I used a large egg, one regular stick of unsalted butter, and a Duncan Hines devils food cake mix. I wonder if refrigerating the base layer before adding other ingredients would help… Either way, this was a little too rich for me (yes, I ate the goo to taste test even though the bars didn’t set!) so I probably won’t try again – but I wanted to let others know I failed as well.
These look so sinful! Who needs bathing suit season anyway. 😉
Lol! No doubt 🙂
My 8 yo niece made these, with very little help, for her Dads birthday. They were a huge hit with everyone. She named it “Triple Chocolate Oreo Best Ever Birthday Cake. Thanks for another great recipe.
Oh man, I made these tonight, and I think it is literally the best thing I have ever tasted as far as chocolate goes!! This, however, is not a good thing! haha Thank goodness for my husband working with a bunch of hungry men, and I will not consume the whole 5,000 calories myself! 🙂 Splendid recipe!
Do these have to have unsalted butter or can you use salted? They look delicious!
I have the same question but I didn’t see a reply…
I tried these with salted butter and they were perfectly fine. The amount of salt in a stick of butter is not very significant, maybe an 1/8 of a teaspoon.
I’m so happy I saw this post! These will be perfect for our block party! YUMMMMMM!
These look amazing, Jenny! And super easy, too!
You are killing me! I just got back from lunch and am sneaking some food blog viewing in and here I find a gorgeous picture of my greatest weakness – cookies and cream. Sigh… Well, guess I know what I’ll be baking this week 🙂
Love these easy cake-mix based desserts. Perfect!! Ooey Gooey wow!