How has it been SO long since I’ve baked a layer cake?! Life has been so busy, I’ve been so caught up in my midweek meals and just juggling through the week, that I’ve forgotten about baking for fun. Just because.. I love it! I was going to meet up with my lovely friend Emma a few weeks ago and I thought I’d take the opportunity to bake this Oreo Cake that’s been in my head since my Oreo Cheesecake recipe last year. And would you look at it?! It’s a thing of beauty and here’s why:
HOW DO YOU MAKE A CHOCOLATE OREO CAKE?
This layer cake is surprisingly simple to make, a basic chocolate sponge cake and Oreo buttercream (or frosting as it is known in the good old USA, the home of Oreos!) topped with more buttercream and oreo biscuits. It’s any Oreo lovers dream cake, and it makes the perfect birthday cake too. Start by preheating your oven and greasing your cake tins really well with plenty of butter, and lining the base with baking paper.
Top tip!
I cut the circles of baking paper out by folding the baking paper in half, then quarters, then eights, and snipping across a curved edge, much easier than cutting around a whole circle 3 times.
Next mix up your chocolate sponge mixture, by beating together your butter and sugar (in a mixer, with a hand mixer or by hand). Beat in the eggs, then the flour, cocoa and melted chocolate.
Dollop the mixture evenly between the 3 tins.
Top tip!
If you don’t have enough tins, just bake one or two of the cakes at a time, then wash up the tins and repeat. The mixture will be fine sitting for a short time, but don’t leave it out, uncooked all day as it won’t rise when you come to bake it. The cakes are cooked when they start to pull away from the edge of the tin (like in the photo below) and a knife poked into them comes out clean. Allow to cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then turn out to finish cooling.
HOW DO YOU BUILD A LAYER CAKE?
This Oreo layer cake has three layers of chocolate sponge, sandwiched together using oreo flavoured butter cream. Once you’ve baked your 3 cakes, allow them to cool completely. If the tops of the cakes have even a slight dome shape, use a sharp bread knife to level them out. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! Your cake will topple over otherwise!
Next make your icing, but beating together your butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy. Add in crushed Oreo cookies (I use a food processor to do this to get them really fine and I’m lazy!) You can do it by hand if you’d prefer, either in a bowl with a rolling pin or in a thick plastic sandwich bag. Beat your crushed Oreos into the icing making sure that there’s no big lumps of cookie. Put around a third of the buttercream mixture on the top of each of two of your chocolate layer cakes. Gently sandwich them together. For the top layer, pipe your final third of Oreo buttercream frosting around the edge and lightly fill in the middle (This is only a guide, you simply need enough to sandwich the cakes together.) I used a piping bag, nozzle and palette knife to do the above, but you can do it quite simple with a knife or spoon if you prefer. The piping does give it a nice touch though of course!
What I used to make this Oreo Cake:
You don’t NEED any of those items to bake this cake, but they do make it easier and help to give that really special finish.
Tips for making this Oreo layer cake:
When you add your melted chocolate to the cake, let it cool for a couple of minutes before adding. Be sure to take your cakes out of the oven when they are JUST cooked. They will continue to cook for a few more minutes from the heat of the cake tins. They will be dry if overcooked. Wait until the cakes are completely cold to trim and ice them. Don’t put too much buttercream inside the layers, just enough to sandwich them together. Too much will make the cake a bit wobbly.
Fancy MORE CAKES…?
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