Oreo Cake

When I saw this cake posted, I knew I wanted to make it for Valentina's B-Day. It was a huge hit! You have to make this for your next big event!
Yes it's taken me that long to blog about it, but I was remembering it today and hurried to post about it. You can make this cake with Ringos or Pan di Stelle cookies.
BIG Sushi & Oreo dinner for tonight!


Ingredients
For 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
10-15 oreos twisted to separate cookies and reveal cream center
15 oreos, chopped directly in half through cookie
For 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
For 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


Preheat oven to 180 degrees and prepare two round baking pans, lining with parchment. -On one layer of cake, place cookie into the bottom of one pan.

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.

Meanwhile, make frosting:
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:
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 =D