A delicious and fun Pound Cake with Oreo Cookies. This is a vanilla pound cake baked with crushed Oreo cookies to give a delicious texture and chocolate flavour. Great for birthday parties and entertaining!
This post has been prepared in collaboration with Tchibo (Schweiz) AG, but the content and opinions are my own.
Pound Cake
This pound cake with Oreo cookies solves the dilemma of whether to have cookies or cake at afternoon tea – now you can have both!
It might sound a bit unusual to combine crushed cookies into a cake, but the batter softens the biscuits such that they meld nicely together; you won’t exactly have crunchy bits of cookie throughout the cake.
This is essentially a vanilla pound cake speckled with chocolate pieces.
Pound Cake Recipe
This pound cake recipe makes a pretty large cake, so if you need something to feed a crowd (such as at a kids’ birthday party), this recipe would be perfect.
For large cakes, I always like to bake them in a ring tin or bundt pan to ensure that it is cooked evenly without a wet centre.
Vanilla Pound Cake
The recipe below is essentially for a large vanilla pound cake.
Variations
If you do not want to use Oreo cookies in this cake, simply leave it out for a plain cake, or substitute it with other ingredients of your choice, such as:- 1 cup of chocolate chips
- 1 cup of fresh or frozen blueberries
- 1 cup of fresh or frozen raspberries
- zest and juice of 1 lemon
Baking Pound Cake in a Bundt Pan
If you have followed my blog over the years, you may have noticed that I love the kitchenware and bakeware sold by Tchibo, such as the cookie stamps used for my Gingerbread Sablé and the chocolate moulds used in my Petit Beurre Biscuits.
They have locations in several countries in Europe, with a more extensive collection found in their online shop.
Their current kitchenware collection includes a non-stick cake tin which comes with a ring tin insert with a cute heart imprint, as well as a handy lid with double handles, which makes it perfect for transporting your cake to work or school, or perhaps even a picnic in the park.
It’s so perfect that I’m considering buying their baking tray with similar lid! If you love baking, you can never have too many cake tins 😉
Pound Cake with Oreo Cookies
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 50 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: Serves 8 to 12
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
A delicious and fun Pound Cake with Oreo Cookies. This is a vanilla pound cake baked with crushed Oreo cookies to give a delicious texture and chocolate flavour. Great for birthday parties and entertaining!
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RateIngredients
- 500 g (3 1/3 cups) plain flour (all-purpose flour)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 330 g (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 300 g (1 1/3 cup) caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 6 eggs
- 90 ml (1/3 cup) milk
- 14 Oreo cookies (or similar)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) (without fan).
- Generously grease a ring tin with butter or non-stick baking spray (I recommend the latter), followed by a dusting of flour. Tap out any excess flour in the kitchen sink. The cake tin should have a capacity of at least 2 litres (4 cups).
- Measure the flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until it is light and creamy. This should take about 3-5 minutes if you are using a stand mixer or electric beaters.
- Add the vanilla extract.
- Add one egg, followed by a tablespoon of the flour mixture to prevent the batter from curdling. Once the egg has been fully incorporated, repeat until all of the eggs have been added.
- Slowly add the rest of the flour mixture, followed by the milk.
- Break 3 or 4 Oreo cookies into quarters and reserve these for decorating the cake.
- Place the remaining Oreo cookies into a large ziplock freezer bag. Use a rolling pin to crush the Oreo cookies – you want both large chunks and fine dust to speckle the cake.
- Mix the crushed Oreo cookies into the batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin.
- Decorate the top of the cake with the reserved Oreo biscuits and gently push them into the surface of the cake.
- Bake the cake for 40-50 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
- Leave the cake to cool on a wire rack for 10-15 minutes, before carefully unmoulding the cake and leaving it to cool completely on a wire rack.
Kitchen Notes
OREO COOKIES You could add more or less Oreo cookies, as you wish. More cookies would add more chocolate flavour to the cake, whilst less cookies would make the vanilla cake stand out more.
VARIATIONS Omit the Oreo cookies for a plain vanilla pound cake. You can also substitute the Oreo cookies with the following: * 1 cup chocolate chips * 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries * 1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries * zest and juice of 1 lemon
OVEN TEMPERATURES All recipes on this website state temperatures for a regular oven (i.e. a conventional oven without fan). If you have a convection oven with a fan, please consult the manufacturer’s handbook on how to adjust the temperature and baking time accordingly.
CONVERSIONS To convert from cups to grams, and vice-versa, please see this handy Conversion Chart for Basic Ingredients.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: Nutritional info per slice
- Calories: 509
- Sugar: 27.6g
- Sodium: 110.3mg
- Fat: 26g
- Carbohydrates: 61.2g
- Fiber: 1.1g
- Protein: 8.1g
- Cholesterol: 152.3mg
Update
This recipe was first published on 16 March 2018. It has been updated with more comprehensive recipe notes.
This looks so delicious, my kids would love it if I try this cake . Looks awesome .
Thanks, Swati! This cake is definitely popular with the kids 😉
Oh my. You’ve literally combined my 2 favourite things in the world and now I can’t stop drooling. This cake is absolutely stunning!!!
Oh thanks, Chris! Oreos are hard to go past 😉
Oh crikey, bang goes the diet!!! 😀
Ha ha!! The diet can wait! 😉
LOVE the sound of this!!
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Thanks, Amy!
Such a simple and delicious cake – I’d love a slice of this with an afternoon coffee. I don’t purchase many store-bought cookies but Oreos are one of my few exceptions. Loved them as a child, love them still.
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I don’t buy the store-bought cookies too often these days, mostly because the variety in Switzerland is so-so. But, like you, I make an exception for Oreos 🙂
Good idea. I will try to cook this cake for my family
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Everything including these black rounded beauties is great ! Thank you for this one !
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I must try this one,
Maybe my mom like the cake,cause she dreamed to eat white cake,
And in our house’s chocolate cake everyday….
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Sounds like a happy home if there is chocolate cake everyday! I hope you will enjoy this recipe 🙂