Monday, August 18, 2014

Chocolate Oreo, Cookie Dough, Fudge Cake with Mint Icing and Ganache

Chocolate Oreo, Cookie Dough, Fudge cake with Mint Icing and Ganache, yes you read that right! Adam had his 28th birthday and requested this ridiculous cake! It sure was YUMMY though!

Chocolate Oreo, Cookie Dough, Fudge Cake
3 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup oil
3 eggs
2 2/3 cup flour
2 1/4 tsp baking powder
2 1/4 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cup water
1 1/8 cup cocoa
chopped oreos
cookie dough balls

-Preheat your oven to 350*
-Combine brown sugar and oil
-On low speed mix in eggs one at a time
-Keep mixing while sifting flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in separate bowl. 
-In yet another small bowl mix vanilla and milk, set aside
-Boil water and pour over the cocoa and whisk until smooth
-To the egg mixture add the flour mixture alternately with milk mixture starting and ending with flour mixture on low
-Add cocoa mixture
-stir in chopped oreos and small cookie dough balls
-pour into pans and bake 20-30 minutes

***If you want a normal chocolate fudge cake just take the oreo and cookie dough additions out! 

Ande Mint Cream Cheese Icing
1 - 8oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 tsp mint extract
4 - 4 1/2 cups powder sugar
20 Ande Mint mini bars, finely chopped

-Blend cream cheese, butter, and extracts until smooth.
-Slowly add powder sugar
-When smooth combine ande mints until well blended
**If the icing is too thick to ice smoothly add a tad of milk

Ganache
1 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 tbsp light corn syrup
3/4 cup heavy cream

- boil heavy cream 
-pour heavy cream over chocolate chips and corn syrup
-whisk until smooth
-After putting on cake refrigerate for approximately 20 minutes for it to harden.

Most importantly eat, eat, eat!


1 comment:

  1. Wow, this looks awesome. I think I'm going to have to give it a try!

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