It seems like every year I begged for a cookie cake for my birthday, and could never understand why anyone would want a classic birthday cake. It’s a giant cookie—what could be better than that?

This funfetti cake is vanilla cake filled with rainbow sprinkles, make a giant chocolate chip cookie, a chocolate cake stacked with peanut butter, or a homemade soap cake with milk foam!

Oreo is bringing back its Golden Birthday Cake cookies on March 3, just in time to “celebrate Milk’s Favorite Cookie turning another year older,” the cookie brand said in a news release.

A play on the Oreo Cakesters, the new cookie will include chocolate-flavored cream filling in addition to the soft chocolate snack cakes. Meanwhile, the Golden Birthday Cake Oreo will return for ...