Oreo Cake//Lucy Isabel

Hi!

So I recently made this cake for a family fun day at my local cricket club, and it sold out very quickly, so I thought I'd share the recipe with you on here.

//For the cake\\

Ingredients:

170g unsalted butter (stork works best)

170g golden caster sugar

115g self raising flour

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

3 eggs

55g cocoa powder

//For the icing\\

2 packs of oreos

200g icing sugar

200g butter

Method:

Cream together the butter & sugar. The best way to do it is to use a wooden spoon to push it against the side of the bowl, but electric whisks work too. then add in the cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and 90g of the flour. Crack in the eggs one at a time, mixing between each one. If the mixture curdles, add in the rest of the flour. If it doesn't curdle, add in the rest of the flour after the eggs. Bake at 190 degrees celsius (170 degrees fan) for about 15 minutes.

Soften the butter by mashing it with a fork. Gradually add the icing sugar, adding a little bit at a time and mixing with a fork each time. Alternatively, you could buy 400g of vanilla buttercream, but I thought I'd say how to make it from scratch for the people who aren't lazy like me.

Spread a relatively thick layer of the plain buttercream onto the bottom cake and place the other cake on top. Then put about a third of the leftover buttercream to one side.

Crush one of the packs of oreos and mix the crumbs in with the other two thirds of buttercream. Spread the mixture evenly across the top of the cake, and take it around the sides after. If you don't have enough, crush some more oreos from the other pack (there will be 4 1/2 that aren't needed for decoration) and use as much buttercream as you need, or make some extra.

Using the rest of the plain buttercream and a star tip piping bag, pipe some teardrop shapes onto the top of the cake (I did 8 around the edge and 3 in the middle). Press half an oreo into each drop.

There are a few things you could do to put a twist on this recipe, like adding a chocolate icing to the sides, or putting crushed oreos in the middle of the two cakes. It was quite experimental to start with, and you could definitely mess around with the recipe and create something different if you wanted to.

Lucy x