Chocolate Oreo Cookie Cake ~Adapted from Frisky Confessions of Crafty Witches~

I helped Tuna with this recipe. We had to adapt it a bit because we didn't have that many Oreos to begin with. We also didn't use the icing recipe or the filling recipe that was originally with the recipe but I'll put it at the bottom.

Here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

For the cake:

2 c. sugar
1-3/4 c. all-purpose flour
3/4 c. Hershey's Cocoa
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1-1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 c. milk
1/2 c. vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 c. boiling water

(this part we didn't do because we didn't have enough Oreos)

10-15 oreos twisted to separate cookies and reveal cream center

15 oreos, chopped directly in half through cookie

Directions: 

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare two 9-inch round baking pans, lining with parchment.

*-On one layer of cake, place cookie halves that have been separated into the bottom of one pan, cream side up. Repeat for second layer* (this step step instead, because of the cake pan, we did a crushed version of this)

-Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl.

-Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes.

-Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin).

-Pour batter very carefully into prepared pans.

-Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

-Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans and place onto wire racks.

-Remove parchment and cool completely.

In the end Tuna's friend, Becca, made a real easy frosting with cream and powdered sugar, we put an extra Oreo on the top of the mini cakes. 

Here's a picture that Tuna took of one of the cooled cakes

And here's the picture of it with the frosting and topped with a mini Oreo

And here's Frisky's icing and filling recipes as well if you want to try those out as well.

Meanwhile, make frosting:
Ingredients:
For the icing:

1/2 c. (1 stick) butter, melted
2/3 c. Hershey's Cocoa
3 c. powdered sugar
1/3 c. milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions: 

-Stir melted butter into cocoa.
-Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency.
-Add small amount additional milk, if needed. -Stir in vanilla. (About 2 cups frosting.)

Meanwhile, make filling:

Ingredients: 

For the filling:

1/3 c. whipping cream
2 tsp powdered sugar
small dash vanilla extract
1/8 c. oreo cookie crumbs, made from reserved oreo sides

Directions:

-In the bowl of an electric mixer, whip the cream, sugar and vanilla until stiff.
-Gently fold in the cookie crumbs.
-Scoop the mixture into a piping bag (or gallon sized ziploc bag).
-When cake is completely cooled, make icing dam around the top edge of the layer of cake that has oreos baked into it.
-Fill icing dam with a layer of cream filling.
-Place other cake layer on top, and frost with chocolate frosting.
-Place Oreo halves around bottom edge and top of cake

-Serve or store in refrigerator.