Wednesday 6 June 2012

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!

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.

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.



 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

Pour this over the cake and leave it in the fridge to set for at least 2-3 hours.


6 comments:

  1. Gratulerer med 16-åring! Kaka så farlig god ut.... ;)

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  2. Happy Birthday to him! Our card was mailed a bit late :o( but we all did think of him yesterday! Amazing how much they've grown up, eh? The older I get the more nostalgic I get for the "old" days, but it is heartening to see them growing up into such fine young adults!

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  3. Gratulerer med bursdagsgutten....og den kaken har jeg aldri laget, men har også skjønt at den er veldig populær her i landet. Og ja, tiden går fort, egentlig altfor fort. Min eldste datter blir 29 i juli og jeg skjønner det ikke helt enda...

    Håper dere har en fin kveld. Vi venter på sommervarmen....

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  4. Gratulerer så mye til sønnen i huset!
    Oreokake er kjempegodt, og et must her i huset når det er bursdag, og det er det faktisk tre dager til ende nå:-)
    Hadde vært artig å prøve din variant av moussen, men i morgen tror jeg vi går for den enkle Toro varianten:-)

    Klem

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  5. Gratulerer med 16åring - tiden flyr :)

    mmm - kaken ser helt nydelig ut..

    Nyt sommerdagene,,

    Klem fra Tove

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  6. Jeg må avstå fra bloggen din når du kommer med sånne fristende ting! Er inne i en god periode nå, og skal ikke la dine flotte oppskrifter stikke kjepper i hjulene :P

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