My friends and former co-workers have all declared this Chocolate Oreo Cake one of THE best cakes of all time. Made with a fail-proof, rich chocolate cake recipe and featuring an unbelievably delicious cream cheese Oreo frosting, this gorgeous dessert will become an instant hit for any occasion!
I am SO excited to share this Chocolate Oreo Cake recipe with all of you that I can’t even pester y’all with travel planning updates today. (Gasp–respite from my travel fever blabber, you say? I KNOW!)
This one-of-a-kind recipe features all of the hard hitters that you never knew you needed in a cake: an Oreo-crumb-infused layer of cream cheese frosting sandwiched between the most gloriously moist, fluffy layers of chocolate cake ever invented by mankind! (While I’m pretty sure that mankind is the only species to have invented chocolate cake, I am so irrationally smitten by this particular recipe–which I also feature in my beloved Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting–that no hyperbolic statement seems to do it enough justice.)
The cake: I can’t praise this chocolate cake recipe high enough to the skies! It’s fluffy, rich, slightly smoky (with undertones of espresso/coffee), and pretty much failproof. It’s also my favorite chocolate cake recipe to date: I ended up making four variations on this recipe in just one week!
The frosting: Imagine your taste buds wading in a cream cheese pool of tangy, slightly sweet frosting that’s been bathed in Oreo crumbs. The result is an explosion of cookies ‘n cream-esque flavors–perfect for offsetting the rich chocolatey goodness of your cake.
The verdict: Hands-down one of the best-received cakes that I have ever made, period. I brought this decadent cake in for a surprise birthday/farewell party at the old workplace and received so many compliments on it that I was nearly hammered down through the floor with them. Do yourself a favor: MAKE THIS CAKE ASAP!
Anyway, that’s it for now–have fun dreaming of this cake tonight! <3
The BEST Chocolate Oreo Cake
My friends and former co-workers have all declared this Chocolate Oreo Cake one of THE best cakes of all time. Made with a fail-proof, rich chocolate cake recipe and featuring an unbelievably delicious cream cheese Oreo frosting, this gorgeous dessert will become an instant hit for any occasion!
Ingredients
For the chocolate cake:
- 1 3/4 cup cake flour
- 2 cups white sugar
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup warm, freshly brewed coffee
- 1 cup buttermilk or soy milk
- 1/2 cup canola oil
For the Oreo cream cheese frosting:
- 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt (optional)
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 12 Oreos, finely crushed and divided
Instructions
For the chocolate cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease two round 8-inch springform pans; line bottom of pans with circular parchment paper cut-outs and grease those as well. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Make a well in the center of dry ingredients. Add eggs, coffee, milk, and oil. Whisk in until batter is smooth and thin.
- Divide batter evenly between prepared pans. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in centers comes out mostly clean with moist crumbs clinging to it. Remove pans from oven and allow cakes to cool for five minutes before running a knife along the cake edges. Carefully remove springform pan rings, wrap cake layers tightly with cling wrap, and transfer to freezer for at least 2-3 hours before handling.
For the Oreo cream cheese frosting:
- In a medium bowl, cream together cream cheese, yogurt, lemon juice, and vanilla until smooth. Whisk in powdered sugar, then stir in half of the crushed Oreos. Reserve the remaining Oreo crumbs for decoration.
For assembly:
- Once your cake layers have cooled completely, remove cling wrap and invert both layers onto plates. Remove springform pan bottom and peel away parchment paper. Place one layer on an 8-inch cardboard cake round and frost with 2/5 of your frosting. Top with remaining cake layer and apply remaining frosting as desired. Sprinkle Oreo crumbs on top.
- Slice and enjoy!
Wow, best-received cake ever? This must be spectacular! It sure looks so. Thanks!
mmm that cake sounds so moist! (still lacking a synonym that works well instead of moist). and ahh cream cheese oreo frosting?! i want that on everything.
I have seen and tasted so many chocolate cakes but this cake has excited me the most to make it and surprise everyone with it. The layers are so simple but so classy. Texture of the cake is totally uplifting. Its definitely a mouth-watering cake. Oreo Cream Frosting is on the point. Like you said above make this Cake ASAP! I am doing it Now. Thank You for the recipe.
This cake definitely has a “wow” factor. It looks fantastic!
I love oreo, and I also love chocolate cake and now I need to try this combo!
Look Amazing!!
Oh My God! this cakes looks so amazing and tempting. chocolate is always been first love plus combined with oreo is heaven.
It was mentioned that you can make this glutten free by changing the flour. I’m new to glutten free cooking and baking. What glutten free flour would you suggest be used. I would like to make this for my granddaughter.
Thank you.
Dorene
Hi Dorene! I would recommend using a 1-to-1 gluten-free flour sub such as this Bob’s Red Mill flour: https://www.amazon.com/Bobs-Red-Mill-Baking-Gluten/dp/B07FW7SCB2/ Hope that helps and that your granddaughter loves it!
The baking time is all off. I baked it for 35 min. I opened the oven after 20 min per instructions and my cake fell. Correct this for future bakers.
Hey Pat! Sorry that the specified baking time didn’t work well for you–I’ve never had trouble with this cake baking thoroughly when the batter is divided between two springform pans, but thanks for your feedback!