Name: Cake hacks: how to make a layered Oreo cake
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: Two chocolate mud cakes; One white chocolate mud cake; Powdered icing; 50ml milk; Tbsp of vanilla bean paste; Oreo cookies

Ingredients

Method

Serves : 8

Time needed : 15m

Difficulty : easy

Planning a party is fun, but we all know it can get a bit time-consuming and costly. The good news? You may have noticed the rise of cake hacks across social media, and we’re here to confirm… they work! Give those classic store-bought cakes we all know and love, a zjoosh with some simple decorating. It’s the perfect combo of a showstopping cake, minus the heart-stopping price tag. Easy and budget friendly, these simple hacks are perfect for your next celebration and will have all your guests asking, “where did you get that?”.

For the cookie monsters amongst us, our layered Oreo cake is the perfect cake creation for any event. Utilising the Aussie legend that is the supermarket mud cake, this tasty treat and all its ingredients can be found easily at your local Coles or Woolworths.

Ingredients

Method

Ingredients

Two chocolate mud cakes

One white chocolate mud cake

Powdered icing

50ml milk

Tbsp of vanilla bean paste

Oreo cookies

Ingredients

Method

1. First to make your icing, use an electric beater to combine powered icing, milk, and vanilla bean paste until smooth peaks form.

A metal mixing bowl with powdered icing and vanilla paste, with a cup of milk being poured in.

2. Next, layer your mud cakes, keeping the white chocolate cake in the middle. This will make your cake look like a giant Oreo when cut! Use a thin layer of icing between each cake to secure.

A metal mixing bowl filled with cake icing sitting on a white wooden benchtop. A chocolate mud cake is sitting on a plate ready to be iced.

3. Spread remaining icing over the entire cake, covering all three layers. Ensure the layer is thick and even so that the cake appears uniformly covered.

Three store bought cakes iced and stacked on top of each other. They are sitting on a white wooden benchtop with a metal mixing bowl to the side.

4. Gently push Oreo cookies into all sides of the cake — we used regular and mini Oreos.

A person's hands placing Oreo cookies on top of an iced mud cake. Two bowls of different sized Oreo cookies are placed beside the cake.

5. Voila! All that’s left to do is serve and enjoy!

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