Vegan Oreo drip cake:
Ingredients:
Sponge:
395g self-raising flour
365g soft brown sugar
78g cocoa powder
½ tsp. salt
150ml water
Vanilla extract
165 ml veg oil
2 tbsp. white wine vinegar
Frosting:
350g vegan spread
750g icing sugar
1tbs vanilla
1 pack whizzed up Oreos
Ganache:
200g dark chocolate
100g vegan cream
Method:
1.Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius.
2.Boil the kettle and pour the water into a jug to cool.
3.Line 3 7” tins with baking parchment.
4.Mix together the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder and salt ensuring it is all blended.
5.Add the water, oil, vinegar and then mix until combined.
6.Split into 3 tins and bake for 30 mins until a knife comes out clean when stuck in the cake.
For the frosting:
1.Beat together the vegan spread, vanilla and sugar until fluffy.
2.Add in the crushed Oreos and mix until combined.
Ganache:
1.Melt the cream and chocolate together in the microwave or over a pan of water until completely smooth and combined.
Decoration:
1.Stack your cakes with the frosting and then give the whole cake a rough crumb coat.
2.Leave in the fridge to chill for 30 mins.
3.Do a final coat of icing trying to make it as neat as possible.
4.Crush up some Oreos to press around the base of the cake.
5.Now load the ganache into a piping bag and pipe your drips all around the cake and then use a pallet knife to smooth ganche all over the top of the cake.
6.Use your excess buttercream to pipe swirls around to top of the cake sticking Oreos into each to give the cake some extra height.
