Cookies and Cream Cake

Following up from last week's chocolate chip cookie cake, here's my cookies and cream cake and Oreo buttercream recipe!

If you like "chocolate sandwich cookies" or Oreos of any sort, you are bound to like this cake too! This cake was made with two layers of a delicious chocolate cake, filled with a cookies and cream mousse and Oreo chunks, and covered in a cookies and cream buttercream!

The recipes I used were quite simple. The cake was a simple chocolate cake - so whatever recipe you typically use will suffice. The mousse though is my favorite secret... that I am sharing to y'all today. It's not actually a typical mousse at all!

How to make (almost) instant mousse:

• Take 1 pint of heavy whipping cream and whip until soft peaks form

• Add in 1 box of instant pudding mix in a flavor of your choice (I did chocolate)

• Continue to beat until it all thickens

Super easy, right?

Then, to make the Oreo frosting, I followed another classic buttercream recipe. The ingredients in this one is simple, just remember 2, 2, 1, 1 -- this is for 2 sticks of butter, 2 cups of powdered sugar, 1 cup of blended Oreos, 1 tsp vanilla. Since there are Oreos in this recipe, if there are large chunks, it get's really difficult to pipe! Be careful with that.

To finish off the cake once frosted, I simply added Oreo crumbs and Oreos on top! The next time I do this, hopefully it will be with a different type of cookie, and I will post that recipe here as well.