1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar
1/2 t vanilla
Crushed Oreos
Freeze your mixing bowl and beaters for a few minutes while you get everything ready. Pour the whipping cream into the mixer on high speed until cream begins to thicken (approx 1 1/2 minutes). Stop the mixer and add the sugar and vanilla. Beat on high speed until stiff peaks form.
Don’t forget to pipe a stiff buttercream dam around your cake layers before filling! You’ll want to use this as a filling rather than a frosting for stability reasons. Fold in crushed oreos—for me, the more, the better! — I’ve had requests for this with both white and chocolate cakes, but chocolate cakes are my favorite for this filling!
Hi Laura, If you want to use a doctored cake mix, I think you would like the White Almond Sour Cream recipe (leaving out the almond flavor will give you a vanilla cake). Here is a link to that recipe, link to mycakeschool.com. This could be used for a marble cake. After the batter is mixed, remove 1 cup of the vanilla batter and place in a small bowl. Stir in 2 Tablespoons sifted cocoa, the batter will become somewhat stiff so stir in 1 to 2 Tablespoons water. Put the remaining vanilla batter into your cake pans. Drop dollops of the chocolate batter on top of the vanilla batter and swirl with a knife, or back of a spoon, swirling and pushing the chocolate batter through the vanilla. If you would like, instead of the cocoa, you could use 4 ounces of baking chocolate, melted and stirred into the 1 cup vanilla batter ( no need to add water to this). We also have a Chocolate Sour Cream Cake (Doctored cake mix) recipe listed in the recipe section. Let me know if you have other questions.
BeBe,
Thank you for all the suggestions.
You are a God send! I felt like i may have been tossing a halalulah pass and that if you answered it probably wouldn’t be in time, but wow! You were right there. I think this will be my best cake yet.
A wedding cake may not be a matter of life and death but any bride and mother of the bride knows it is pretty high on the important list.
Thank you so much!