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For the cake:

  • 250g self raising flour
  • 250g light brown soft sugar
  • 50g cocoa
  • 250g dark chocolate
  • 250g butter
  • 4 eggs

For the filling and topping:

  • 154g pack of Oreo cookies
  • 250g butter
  • 3-400g sifted icing sugar
  • few drops vanilla extract
  • 1-2 tablespoons milk
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    Method

    • step 1

      Preheat your oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Grease and line 2x20cm sandwich tins.
    • step 2

      Mix the flour, sugar and cocoa together. Melt the chocolate and butter and 200 ml water together over a low heat, then beat this along with the eggs into the dry ingredients.
    • step 3

      Pour into the two sandwich tins, and bake for approximately 40 mins, until well risen, and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Transfer to wire racks and allow to cool.
    • step 4

      While the cake is cooling, make the buttercream. Beat the butter until creamy, then add 300g of the icing sugar and vanilla. Mix well. An electric mixer is really useful here! You may find the mixture a bit dry - if so, add a tablespoon of milk at a time. If the mixture is too wet, add a little more icing sugar.
    • step 5

      Blitz all but one of the cookies in a food processor. Mix half of the cookie crumbs into the buttercream, and reserve the other half.
    • step 6

      Spread the butter icing between the two cakes, and over the top of them when sandwiched together.
    • step 7

      Sprinkle the remaining cookie crumbs over the top. You could add mini oreos to decorate of you like!
    • step 8

      Eat the reserved cookie with a glass of milk, to reward yourself for all your hard work!
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    koudelova.petra96665

    Absolutely stunning cake! My kitchen smells like a chocolaterie 🥰 delicious and so so easy! This will be my go to chocolate cake! Absolutely marvelous!!

    julkaski673655147

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    Hello, this recipe has been deleted? Does anyone still have it saved?

    mariacollopy64833

    Made this for my daughter's 16th Birthday as she requested an Oreo Birthday Cake. It was absolutely divine. Very easy to make. I left out the Water as had never added water to chocolate before. I also added crushed Oreos to the batter as requested by my daughter. I used Lindt Chocolate also…

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    Fiona Priest

    Made this today as a birthday cake and it tasted amazing. However I did alter the method as I would never add water when melting chocolate. It changes the consistency and could be why some people say their cake is too dense. I melted the chocolate and butter together and added it to the eggs and…

    marthatwiglet

    Just wandering, when you say "...I melted the chocolate and butter together and added IT to the eggs and..." do you mean you never added the water or you did just later?

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