Oreo Cake is the recipe that Teresa makes every most beloved Oreo-obsessed birthday and every most celebrated chocolate gathering when she wants to create the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely legendary individual three-layer Oreo celebration cake that incorporates the most beloved cookies-and-cream individual character through the most brilliantly comprehensive multi-component Oreo integration — crushed Oreo cookies folded through the most deeply chocolatey and the most beautifully moist individual cake batter for the most completely extraordinary Oreo-studded individual crumb.
An additional layer of the most luxuriously creamy Oreo cream filling spread most generously between each individual layer before the most outstanding Oreo buttercream, and the most beautifully abundant and the most dramatically pressed whole and the most halved individual Oreo cookies decorating the most completely extraordinary individual frosted exterior — producing the most genuinely show-stopping and the most completely over-the-top individual Oreo celebration cake that makes every single Oreo lover immediately reach for the most enthusiastic second slice.
Oreo Cake is the most easy and deeply extraordinary 1-hour three-layer chocolate Oreo celebration cake made with chocolate sour cream cake batter folded with crushed Oreos assembled with Oreo cream cheese buttercream between layers decorated with whole halved and crushed Oreos baked at 350°F for 22 to 25 minutes. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful cake recipes and easy celebration favorites from our kitchen every single week.
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Why You Will Love This Oreo Cake Recipe
This Oreo Cake recipe is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely legendary individual three-layer Oreo celebration cake that delivers the most completely immersive and the most deeply integrated individual cookies-and-cream experience through the most brilliantly comprehensive Oreo ingredient approach — crushed Oreos in the individual batter, Oreo filling cream between the individual layers, and Oreo buttercream with crushed and whole cookies throughout the individual exterior — creating the most genuinely all-encompassing Oreo individual cake experience imaginable.
The most brilliantly clever and the most completely unexpected individual filling between the layers is the most meticulously collected Oreo cream filling — carefully scraped from individual Oreo cookies — mixed with a small amount of cream cheese for the most luxuriously thick and the most genuinely Oreo-authentic individual cream filling layer that no conventional buttercream individual layer can replicate. Our Oreo Dirt Cake makes a beautifully equally Oreo-obsessed and equally crowd-pleasing companion for a complete and wonderful Oreo dessert collection.
Ingredients Needed for This Oreo Cake Recipe
For the Three Chocolate Oreo Cake Layers:
- 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 2 cups Granulated Sugar
- ¾ cup Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 large Eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup Sour Cream, room temperature
- ½ cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Hot Water
- 15 Oreo Cookies, crushed (filling included)
For the Oreo Cream Cheese Buttercream:
- 8 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter, room temperature
- 5 to 6 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Crushed Oreo Cookies (filling included)
For the Oreo Cream Filling Between Layers:
- Cream filling scraped from 20 additional Oreo cookies
- 2 oz Cream Cheese, softened
For Decoration:
- 10 to 12 Whole Oreo Cookies
- 6 Halved Oreo Cookies
- Crushed Oreos for top
How to Make This Oreo Cake Recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and line three 8-inch round cake pans.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add the eggs, sour cream, oil, and vanilla. Mix until the most combined. Stir in the hot water carefully — the batter will be the most beautifully thin. Fold in the 15 crushed Oreo cookies, cara mia.
Divide evenly between the three pans and bake for 22 to 25 minutes until a toothpick comes out with only a few moist crumbs. Cool 10 minutes then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
For the Oreo cream cheese buttercream, beat the room-temperature cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add sifted powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat until fluffy. Fold in the one cup of crushed Oreos by hand.
For the Oreo cream filling, scrape the cream filling from 20 Oreo cookies and beat with the two ounces of softened cream cheese until the most smooth.
Assemble: place the first individual layer, spread a thin individual layer of Oreo cream filling, add a generous individual layer of Oreo cream cheese buttercream. Repeat with the second layer. Place the third layer on top. Apply a thin crumb coat, refrigerate 20 minutes, then apply the most final beautiful individual frosting layer. Press whole Oreo cookies into the exterior sides and top. Scatter crushed Oreos.
How to Serve This Oreo Cake Recipe
Serve at room temperature after 20 to 30 minutes out of the refrigerator for the most beautifully softened individual cream cheese Oreo buttercream and the most properly distinct individual Oreo cream filling layers in every single individual cross-section.
For the most genuinely dramatic and the most completely Oreo-immersive individual presentation, add a final drizzle of warm ganache over the top before serving for the most completely extraordinary and the most properly chocolate-drenched individual Oreo celebration cake experience. Our Chocolate Lasagna makes a beautifully equally Oreo-forward and equally no-bake companion for a complete and wonderful Oreo dessert collection.
How to Store This Oreo Cake Recipe
Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 5 days due to the cream cheese in both the filling and the frosting. Allow 20 to 30 minutes at room temperature before serving. The Oreo cookies pressed into the exterior will soften slightly during refrigerator storage — add fresh cookies immediately before serving for the most properly crisp individual texture.
Tips to Make This Oreo Cake Recipe
Crush the Oreos with their cream filling intact for both the cake batter and the individual Oreo cream cheese buttercream — the cream filling melts into the surrounding individual frosting and batter and contributes the most essential additional sweetness and the most beautifully bound individual Oreo character that the most filling-free individual wafer pieces alone cannot provide.
Collect the Oreo cream filling by gently twisting the individual cookies apart and scraping with a small offset spatula — the filling comes away the most cleanly from one individual wafer when the most cold, so refrigerate the cookies for 30 minutes before separating for the most efficient and the most complete individual cream collection.
Helpful Notes for This Oreo Cake Recipe
This Oreo Cake is the most spectacular and the most genuinely Oreo-obsessed individual recipe in the most complete Nonna’s Kitchen collection — it uses approximately 45 to 50 individual Oreo cookies across all components, making it the most complete and the most thoroughly Oreo-integrated individual celebration cake imaginable.
For the most dramatically beautiful and the most completely immersive individual Oreo cookie exterior, press the most individual whole Oreos in the most complete perimeter around the entire side of the individual cake exterior — standing each cookie the most vertically into the freshly applied individual frosting for the most striking and the most professionally individual dramatic presentation.
Variation of This Oreo Cake Recipe
Maria made a version using Golden Oreos and vanilla cake layers for the most completely extraordinary and the most differently beautiful individual blonde Oreo cake — equally spectacular with the same most beautifully comprehensive Oreo integration in every component. Teresa tried a mint Oreo version by using Mint Oreos throughout all components and adding half a teaspoon of peppermint extract to the individual frosting for the most completely extraordinary and the most refreshingly cool individual mint Oreo celebration cake.
For a smaller version, divide the recipe between two 8-inch pans for a the most beautiful two-layer Oreo cake that still delivers the most comprehensive and the most completely Oreo-integrated individual experience. Our Chocolate Lasagna makes a beautifully equally Oreo-forward and equally crowd-stopping companion for a complete and wonderful Oreo dessert collection.
FAQs About This Oreo Cake Recipe
How many Oreos does this recipe use in total?
This most comprehensively Oreo-integrated individual celebration cake uses approximately 45 to 50 individual Oreo cookies across all components — 15 crushed in the individual batter, 20 for the individual cream filling collection, 15 to 20 crushed in the individual buttercream, and 15 to 18 whole, halved, and additional crushed individual cookies for the most dramatic individual exterior decoration. One standard family-size individual package of Oreos plus one regular individual package provides the most sufficient quantity.
Can I use the Oreo cream filling from the batter cookies for the cream filling layer?
Yes — the most efficient individual approach is to scrape the cream filling from the cookies designated for the individual batter layer before crushing them, collecting the most individual cream filling for the most Oreo cream individual filling layer. The individual cream-free wafers still produce equally extraordinary crushed Oreo individual batter texture while the most collected cream filling provides the most essential Oreo cream individual layer component.
Why does the cake batter use sour cream?
Sour cream provides the most essential individual fat and tang for the most beautifully moist and the most properly dense individual chocolate cake crumb that most effectively complements and the most dramatically contrasts the individual Oreo cookie texture and sweetness throughout every individual bite. The most deeply sour cream-enriched individual chocolate crumb produces the most proper and the most beautifully balanced individual Oreo cake experience.
Conclusion
This Oreo Cake is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely legendary three-layer Oreo celebration cake that makes every birthday and every gathering feel genuinely and completely magnificent through the most Oreo-studded chocolate crumb and the most beautifully creamy Oreo filling layers and the most outstanding Oreo cream cheese buttercream and the most dramatically pressed whole cookie exterior in every single spectacularly individual and completely irresistible Oreo cake slice.
We hope it brings the same deeply joyful Oreo-obsessed celebration and the same completely delighted table to your kitchen that it has always brought to ours. Make it, share it, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.
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Oreo Cake The Most Easy Moist Chocolate Oreo Cookie Cream Cheese Oreo Buttercream Three Layer Celebration Cake You Will Bake
- Total Time: 1 hour 35 minutes including cooling and crumb coat
- Yield: 12 to 14 servings 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
The most extraordinary three-layer Oreo Cake made by preheating oven to 350°F greasing and lining three 8-inch pans whisking 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 3/4 cup cocoa 2 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder and 1 tsp salt adding 2 room temperature eggs 1 cup room temperature sour cream 1/2 cup oil and 1 tsp vanilla mixing combined stirring in 1 cup hot water carefully batter will be thin folding in 15 crushed whole Oreos dividing evenly between pans baking 22 to 25 minutes until toothpick shows few moist crumbs cooling 10 minutes then on racks scraping cream from 20 Oreos beating with 2 oz cream cheese to smooth for filling beating 8 oz room temperature cream cheese and 1 cup room temperature butter smooth adding 5 to 6 cups sifted powdered sugar and vanilla beating fluffy folding 1 cup crushed Oreos assembling three layers with Oreo cream filling then Oreo buttercream between each applying crumb coat refrigerating 20 minutes applying final frosting pressing whole Oreos into exterior scattering crushed cookies. A completely extraordinary three-layer Oreo chocolate cookies and cream celebration cake recipe.
Ingredients
2 cups All-Purpose Flour
2 cups Granulated Sugar
3/4 cup Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
2 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Salt
2 large Eggs room temperature
1 cup Sour Cream room temperature
1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1 cup Hot Water
15 Oreo Cookies crushed filling included for batter
8 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese room temperature for frosting
1 cup Unsalted Butter room temperature for frosting
5 to 6 cups Powdered Sugar sifted
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract for frosting
1 cup Crushed Oreo Cookies for frosting
Cream filling scraped from 20 additional Oreo cookies
2 oz Cream Cheese softened for Oreo cream filling
10 to 12 Whole Oreo Cookies for decoration
6 Halved Oreo Cookies
Crushed Oreos for top
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F 175°C. Grease and line three 8-inch pans.
2. Whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in large bowl.
3. Add eggs, sour cream, oil, and vanilla. Mix combined. Stir in hot water. Batter will be thin.
4. Fold in 15 crushed whole Oreos. Divide evenly between pans.
5. Bake 22 to 25 minutes until toothpick shows few moist crumbs. Cool 10 minutes. Transfer to racks. Cool completely.
6. Scrape cream from 20 Oreos. Beat with 2 oz cream cheese until smooth. Set aside as Oreo cream filling.
7. Beat room temperature cream cheese and butter smooth. Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat fluffy. Fold in 1 cup crushed Oreos.
8. Assemble: first layer then thin Oreo cream filling then generous Oreo buttercream. Repeat with second layer. Add third layer on top.
9. Apply thin crumb coat. Refrigerate 20 minutes. Apply final frosting.
10. Press whole Oreos into exterior. Scatter crushed Oreos over top.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Cake, Oreo, Birthday, Celebration
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 640
- Sugar: 68g
- Sodium: 430mg
- Fat: 33g
- Saturated Fat: 17g
- Unsaturated Fat: 13g
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Carbohydrates: 84g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 7g
- Cholesterol: 90mg
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