Cookies & Cream Cake recipe by Ruhana Ebrahim

Ingredients

• 2 ¼ cups cake flour (sifted)
• 1 ½ cups castor sugar
• ¼ cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 XL eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 ½ cups oil
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon bicarb. of soda
• 250g butter
• 3 cups icing sugar
• 2 tablespoon milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla essence
• 1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
• 2. Mix flour, sugar, cocoa and salt.
• 3. In another bowl combine
• buttermilk, eggs, vanilla and oil, mix well.
• 4. Add wet ingredients into dry ingredients, mix well.
• 5. Combine vinegar and bicarb. and pour over batter, briskly whisk in.
• 6. Spoon batter into greased and lined round/ bundt pan.
• 7. Bake for 35-40min or until risen and when skewered removes clean.
• 8. Allow to cool for few minutes, remove from pan and cool further.
• 9. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy, add all ingredients and form frosting.
• 10. Frost the top, decorate with cake crumbs.
• 11. Pipe on rosettes of frosting.
• 12. Drizzle on ganache.
• 13. Push in Oreos into rosettes.
• 14. Leave to set then