Brooklyn's Chocolate Explosion Cake

Mr. T and I made a three layer 8" cookies and cream cake for this creation. This is Mr. T's favourite cake to make as it is super easy. The most tedious part is chopping up the Oreo cookies to go into the batter. All other ingredients go into the bowl all at once. Normally, you start with butter, sugar and eggs; separate wet and dry ingredients, then alternate adding them into the mixing bowl. Not with this recipe which makes it goes so much faster.

Now, for the decorating. The cake was covered in butter cream icing and smoothed out. A chocolate ganache dripping over the top. The fun part was adding all the chocolate. I love the freestyle of decorating in this way. It's lots of fun. Mr. T and Miss. E were happy to eat the leftover chocolate that didn't make it on to the cake. To fill in holes I added chopped Oreos. For the topper I designed it and cut it out on my circut machine. I used vinyl for the lettering and black cardstock for the backing. Vinyl is so much easier to work with, especially when cutting out small letters.

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