Chocolate cake and Oreo Cookies make the absolute killer combo for your afternoon tea.
Ingredients
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- 2 cups all purpose flour ,
- 1 cups unsweetened cocoa ,
- 1½ tsp. baking soda ,
- 1/4th tsp. salt ,
- 3/4 cup Butter ,
- 1 cup packed brown sugar ,
- 1 cup granulated sugar ,
- 3 large eggs ,
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract ,
- 1½ cups buttermilk (ξινογαλο στα ελληνικά) ,
- 10 oreo cookies smashed
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- 100 gr dark chocolate ,
- 50 ml cream fresh
Instructions
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- Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a cake pan. Dust pan with flour. ,
- Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. In large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat butter and brown and granulated sugars until blended. Increase speed to high; beat 5 minutes or until pale and fluffy, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. ,
- Reduce speed to medium-low; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. ,
- Beat in vanilla until blended. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat just until batter is smooth, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. ,
- Add half of the smashed cookies and mix well. ,
- Spoon batter in prepared pan. Bake 22 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. ,
- Cool in pan on wire racks 10 minutes. Carefully remove; cool completely, about 45 minutes. ,
- Melt chocolate on double boiler and pour in the cream fresh. Let it stand for 3 minutes so that its not very hot. ,
- Set a first layer of the icing on top of the cake and "glue" the smashed cookies on top of it. Then cover the whole cake with the remaining icing.
