Tried and Tested: Oreo Cake

Another year has gone by and Our Boy turned 16 in the midst of the Queen's Jubilee Weekend.
We have enjoyed a lovely Jubilee/Birthday Weekend together with family visiting from Sweden!
Our Boy chose Oreo Cake as his birthday cake.
It has become our tradition that birthday boy/girl gets to choose the cake for their birthday. This is what he had last year when he turned 15 and this is what he had when he turned 14!

I have noted from various blogs that Oreo cake is one of the big hits on any Norwegian dessert table. Our Boy thinks Norwegian  home made cakes are the best in the world and wanted us to try it out together.


The various Norwegian recipes calls for using a mousse based on some ready made packets which we can't get here. Any mousse recipe I have normally contains raw eggs and I am not too keen on using that. So, a little more research (and some help from Nigella) resulted in our own version of Oreo cake using marshmallows to set the mousse. The cake requires no oven use, so perhaps a good alternative if you are on holidays and don't have access to a proper kitchen.


It was such a success that he made a second one to share with his friends in the evening at a joint birthday celebration!

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Base layer

Smash up 300 grams of Oreo cookies and

mix with

150 gram melted butter

Pour it in to a lined baking tin and put it in the fridge.

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Second layer

Whisk 225 gram cream cheese smooth with

2.5 dl powder sugar

Whip 1.5 dl cream and add it to the cream cheese mix.

Pour this over the chilled base layer and return the baking tin to the fridge.

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 Top Mousse layer
Melt on very low heat 150 gram marshmallows with

1/2 dl boiling water and

150 grams chocolate and

50 grams butter

Stirr constantly till it is all melted.

Set aside till it has cooled.

In the meantime, whip 1.5 dl cream and add it to the cooled marshmallow/chocolate mixture
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Pour this over the cake and leave it in the fridge to set for at least 2-3 hours.
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