How to: Chocolate & Vanilla Cookie Crumble Cake

Happy Easter Monday! I hope you've all eaten loads of chocolate this weekend, what better excuse than Easter! On Saturday, I made a chocolate and vanilla cookie crumble cake and I've had so many comments about it on my social media etc with people asking how I made it so I decided to put it in a blog post in case you wanted to make it!

What You'll Need:

• For The Cake:
• 170g unsalted butter
• 170g caster sugar
• 115g self raising powder
• 3 large eggs
• 55g cocoa powder
• pinch of salt
• For Decorating:
• Betty Crocker Vanilla Buttercream Style Icing
• Chocolate chip cookies

Method: 

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (gas mark 5) and line two sandwich tins with baking paper
• In a bowl, mix the butter and sugar together until light and creamy
• Sieve the cocoa powder and flour into a separate bowl, add the salt, and mix together
• Separate the floury mix into thirds and add a third and an egg at a time to the butter & sugar, and mix until thick and creamy.
• Pour equal amounts of mix into the two tins and spread evenly
• Put them into the oven for 25 minutes until spongey to touch - you can stick a knife in the centre and if it comes out clean, the cake is done
• Once cooked, take out of the tins and leave on a wire rack to cool completely

Decoration:

• Once the cakes are cooled, use a palette knife to spread the buttercream on one side of the two cakes and sandwich them together.
• You can either do the buttercream on a cake board, or on a bread board and transfer it over afterwards
• Using the palette knife, spread a thin layer of buttercream all over the top and sides of the cake - this will be your crumb coat. (A crumb coat makes sure that your main layer of buttercream has not crumbs in it - it makes it look nicer)
• Put in the freezer for 15 minutes in order to firm up the crumb coat. 
• After taking it out of the freezer, spread a final layer of buttercream over the cake and use the palette knife to smooth out the edges and the top
• Cut as many cookies in half as you need and use them to line the sides of the cake
• Using quarters of cookies, place them between the half cookies
• Crush up a cookie and sprinkle over the top
• Voila! 

Share your favourite cake recipes with me and let me know if you try out this recipe at all! Have a lovely week x