Cookies ‘n Cream Oreo Cake Roll – this EASY cake roll recipe is dark chocolate and filled with Oreo whipped cream and chocolate ganache. Every time I make a cake roll I think I’ve topped all my previous ones…and I certainly have this time.
Hey my friends! How was your Thanksgiving? Did you shop on Black Friday? Ours was great and Jordan dragged me out on Friday, as she’s been planning all year.
Okay, really, I’m lying. I have no idea how Thanksgiving was. I’m writing this on Wednesday, before the holiday. You see, I realllllllly need a break from work. The last few weeks have been hard and my body is screaming at me to STOP WORKING FOR A HOT MINUTE.
So, instead of waiting to write this post all about how I deftly avoided talking politics at Thanksgiving dinner and the great deals we got at the mall on Friday, I’m knocking this post out today so that (hopefully) I can sleep through the night tonight without my to-do list beckoning me from the other room.
Of course, I’ll still be pinning. And on Facebook. And checking comments (such is a bloggers life) but all of my must-do items will be checked off my list.
If I’d been really good at getting things done, I would have shared this post BEFORE Thanksgiving because it’s such a great party dessert. But hey, now we’re looking forward to Christmas and there are are probably parties every weekend.
I have to say that this Oreo Cake Roll is probably my favorite cake roll of all time. (Okay, that’s a lie. I can’t choose. I have too many to choose from. But it ranks up there with the strawberry one and the peanut butter one.)
This is my favorite chocolate cake roll base, except I used Special Dark Cocoa to make it more like an Oreo. Hershey’s makes that flavor, but you can use any unsweetened cocoa powder you like. I get lots of comments about how sometimes the cake isn’t thick and moist and there are two reasons for that:
- It’s not a traditional cake recipe. It’s not going to be super fluffy and extra moist like a normal chocolate cake.
- You have to beat the eggs the amount of time it specifies in the recipe. Don’t skimp!! If you don’t beat enough air into the eggs you’ll get a flatter cake.
If you’ve never made a cake roll, it’s super easy. I’ll put all the links for all my tips and tricks right above the recipe.
I made a Cookies ‘n Cream filling with freshly whipped cream full of Oreo cookies. Roll the cake back up and then coat it with a chocolate ganache and more crushed Oreos.
I made two of these cakes for my daughter’s class. They’re reading a book in school about a French family that lives under a bridge and it references “log cakes”. Her teacher asked me to bring these in to show what a log cake really is and to give the class a treat. According to Jordan everyone loved it!
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