Today I’m giving you another glimpse into my new cookbook Make it with a Cake Mix with this heavenly Oreo Cake! Cream cheese frosting, chocolate cake, cookies & cream filling… what more could you ask for? Oh I know, an easy way to decorate it! I have that too!! Because when I started into the “layered cake” section of my book I wanted to decorate all the cakes using easy tips and tricks.
Oreo Cake
Ingredients
Chocolate Cake:
- 1 box Devil’s food cake mix
- 1 small pkg. chocolate instant pudding mix
- 4 eggs
- ¾ C. milk
- ¾ C. oil
- 1 C. sour cream
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1 C. butter softened
- 16 oz. cream cheese
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
- 2 Tbsp. milk
- 5-6 C. powdered sugar
2 C. Oreo cookies, crushed
more Oreos for decoration
melted chocolate
Instructions
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease 3 8-inch pans. (I like to line the bottoms of my pans with foil or parchment for easy removal.)
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2. Sift cake mix and instant pudding mix into a small bowl and set aside.
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3. In a large bowl, combine eggs, oil, milk, sour cream and vanilla extract.
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4. Stir in cake mix and instant pudding mix.
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5. Divide batter evenly into prepared pans and use a spatula to spread the batter out flat.
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6. Bake for 17-22 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. (If you are making only two layers, it will take 20-25 minutes in the oven.)
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7. Let cool completely.
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8. Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat butter and cream cheese together. Add vanilla extract and milk and slowly add in powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency.
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9. Place roughly 1/3 of the frosting into a small bowl with the 2 C. crushed chocolate sandwich cookies and fold until combined. This will be the frosting you use between your cake layers.
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10. To assemble your cake, stack all 3 cake layers on top of one another, frosting between the layers as you stack. (Use the frosting made in step 9.) Cover the entire cake with your plain cream cheese frosting and use extra cookies, crushed cookies and melted chocolate to decorate.
If you only make a 2-layered cake, you can make less frosting! Also, these are the cake pans I LOVE because you can use a cake mix and get a tall 3-layerd cake like this one 🙂
Love this cake? Check out my Cook Dough Cake!
This is definitely going on my “must make” list!!! Love your recipes!:)
This looks sooo good! I can’t wait to try it!
I made something similar to this for my son’s birthday, but I used a 9x 13 pan. And used the chocolate cake on the back of the Hershey cocoa box.
Needless to say – my son went CRAZY!!!!!!
Thanks,
*****WARNING ***** Where it lists oil twice in the directions for the cake, one of those oils should be milk! I just thought it was a typo and got it all ready and in the oven. I looked back over the recipe again and realized I never added the milk. So, had to take the batter out of oven and add the milk into it…. after it had already started to bake around the edges… no good. It’s back in the oven now, so we’ll see how it turns out.
So sorry! I fixed that!
No problem. It turned out great actually, after I added the milk!
How do you get your cream cheese frosting to be so stiff for icing and piping? Mine is always runny and soft. Followed this icing receipes exact too.
Thanks 🙂
Don’t add any liquid to it.
This cake looks wonderful! I tried to make it but the frosting was way too runny! It kept on sliding! Do you have any tips for firmer icing so that it looks like yours?
Congratulations on your wonderful blog with beautiful photos!
Are you using REAL butter? (margarine sometimes is packaged to look like butter) Make sure your butter has never been melted.
I had to add TWICE the amount of powdered sugar you said to chicken up the icing…it was like cake mix consistency before that. My butter was still cold too.
You know, sometimes it just depends on the humidity of where you live and the specific ingredients. No all powdered sugars and butters are the same.
how did you get the crushed oreo onto the sides of the cake i can never do it hhaha thankyou 🙂
Just fill your hand with crushed oreos and sort of pat the sides of the cake letting the extra fall off. I hope that makes sense, it’s a difficult visual to explain 🙂
Did you use salted or unsalted butter?
Which frosting did you use to pipe on the top of the cake where the Oreo’s are stuck into?
Thank you
I tried this recipe last night and my cakes sank in the center?? They were done and firm to the touch and bajed evenly. As soon as I got them out of the oven they all 3 sank.
**baked evenly
This is my go to cake now. I’m in high school and I’ve brought it to french class and plenty of barbecues and birthdays. I use mint Oreos, and they taste awesome in this! The only downside is the mint Oreo packages are smaller so there’s not as much to decorate with. I’m also not brave enough to try a chocolate drizzle quite yet! Thanks so much for the recipe! 10/10
Oh good! And don’t be afraid of the chocolate drizzle! You can do it! Just put some melted chocolate (Melts) or chocolate ganache in a little ziplock bag and then snip off the tip to make a mini piping bag. Practice drizzling on a plate and then go for the cake!
Lizzy did you used unsalted or salted butter?
What unit of measurement is “C”? Is it cups? 5 – 6 cups of sugar??
Also, we don’t have Devil’s food cake in Aus. Should I make a lighter sponge cake or a heavier mud cake?
Does it need to be chocolate pudding mix, or can I use Ore pudding mix?
Love your photo’s on Pinterest but I wish your directions had all the steps to make this cake and I didn’t have to guess at the amount of chocolate used for the grid, and if I will have enough frosting to do the top puffs/poofs or what ever they are called.
Hi! How many people can eat with this recipe? thank you!
Do you need the chocolate pudding or can the recipe go without?
Hi!
I made the cake a couple days in advance for my sons birthday. Question though.. if I had the crushed Oreos now (day before party) will they get soggy on the side?
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Hi I was wondering if you remove the cream filling on the oreos before crushing and do you use salted or unsalted butter. I’ll give this 5 stars just for looking mighty good. I am going to make it through and I’m darn sure it will taste like heaven. Thank you !
How should I store this cake? Can it sit on the counter for a few days? I am making this around Thanksgiving and am running out of fridge space lol!!
Sometimes if it’s cold outside or in my basement or garage I’ll store cakes there!
OMG this cake is absolutely delicious! I was looking for something to make my brother-in-law for his birthday, and he LOVES Oreos. I thought this sounded like a nice challenge but nothing too difficult. I was mildly worried about the multiple brands of devil’s food cake mixes, but all of that pudding and sour cream really did create a wonderful texture, and the cake wasn’t too rich…perfect for the cream cheese frosting.
*Note to others*- Make sure you really whip the frosting for the outside just before you apply it (I piped it on so it was even and didn’t make a mess), but cream cheese warms up soo fast and won’t stay put, so make sure you whip it till it stays on a frosting spatula without sliding off.
The only thing I had difficulty with was piping the dollops on top w the Oreo chunks in it, as they kept getting stuck in the tip.
The assembly was the most challenging for me but I really enjoyed making it, and my family all raved about the look and taste.
Thanks for a great dessert!
Oh, also…I always use UNSALTED butter for frosting. And for the chocolate grid, I just poured a handful of semi sweet chips into a glass bowl and microwaved it in short bursts of like 20 sec., stirring in between until it was smooth. I put it in a piping bag without a tip and cut off just the end of the bag to drizzle onto the cake with more control.
What size of the chocolate pudding pack? oz or grams is okay, I just want to get the right one or closest one lol. Thank you!
Delicious! Huge hit with my whole family – eaten in two days!
Could you substitute the devils food for vanilla? Or would it mess up the recipe?
love this recipe! It came out amazing! Is there a way to make this an eggless cake?
I’m planning to make this cake this weekend. I want to use my mom’s chocolate cake recipe and make amendments to make it more Oreoooo flavored.
I make a lot of cakes. This was Hands down the best cake I’ve ever made. I did two 8 inch rounds so four layers- two with the Oreo filling & the middle one with thin layer of white. Used whipped cream instead of frosting for the little mounds on top & stuck a cookie in each mound. Everyone raved.
Can I make the icing pink for a bday cake
The cake is really tempting.
Just finished and it turned out GREAT!!!!