Her blog was voted the top baking blog of 2021 and 2020 by Vuelio, her first published book reached No. However, if you use sugar syrup on the cake (about 150g caster sugar + 150ml water dissolved together and drizzled over the cold baked sponges) you can get away with putting the cake in the fridge for 2-3 hours before you travel with it so it’ll be lovely and firm that way! Make sure the cake is cold/partially frozen (place it in the freezer for a good 10-30 minutes) and the ganache is not too hot, otherwise your buttercream will melt. I found using the Oreo Buttercream easier to cover the sides for some reason (not entirely sure why!

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F, line the bottom of three 8-inch cake pans with parchment paper circles, and grease the sides. Hey, I want to give this recipe a trial run I’m just gonna halve it to make one smaller cake will this work? Three layers of moist chocolate cake are filled and frosted with chocolaty, Oreo-packed buttercream, plus more Oreos are layered between the cake layers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I had just made cupcakes for my other daughter’s’14thbirthday using the butter cream recipe as a topping on the top and half an Oreo – amazing results again. I tried to darken the dark chocolate ganache by adding some black color gel to the cream before microwaving it all. It’s not recommended to replace all of the cocoa in a recipe with black cocoa powder, due to it’s very low fat content — it can make baked goods dry.

You can wait until the ganache is set (place cake in the fridge) and then decorate on top, no biggie! The ganache can be made a day in advance and left on the counter overnight (with plastic wrap placed directly on the surface). You can just use some of the Oreo buttercream for a thin buttercream crumb coat – I use a small angled spatula to go round it and smooth it with the scraper (same as when you are finally decorating it!

Add second layer of cake and add the rest of the of icing with chopped Oreos on top in an even layer.

When you are ready to enjoy this delicious dessert, bring your buttercream to room temperature (it’ll be very hard straight out of the fridge). Hi Jane, Looking forward to making this cake for a birthday but I have 5 18inch tins, do you think the current quantity will be enough or maybe adding an extra 1/3 or so of ingredients? It’s my 12th birthday on Monday and I was hoping to make this cake but I wanted to do two tiers: one 20cm one 26cm. I’m making it again but I wanted to change up the design on the outside of the cake for my friends birthday.Hey i am just wondering why this cake is set to 180 degrees in the oven and your victoria sponge is set for 170 degrees in the oven or should they both be 180? You can even see how I add a bit of a crumb coat, which helps to keep those little crumbly bits from getting into your frosting. But it doesn't really matter if you use a taller 6-inch pan, the cake collar helps to keep them level. the measurements are going down, some a little awkward to figure out the exact measurements but im sure ill get there. OREO Birthday Cake Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are the classic OREO cookies you’ve always loved with a delicious and festive twist.