With every trip to the grocery store, I run these few thoughts through my mind.
• GAH! I forgot my grocery list. Do I need lemons? I probably need lemons. • Why is it so cold in here? • Do I have my wallet, where’s my wallet, who stole my wallet, oh here’s my wallet. • Is that baby sitting in that stroller staring at me or do babies just stare? • Would it be weird if I start eating this baguette right now? • I hate scallops • No, you don’t need a bag of chocolate sandwich cookies… don’t even look at those Oreos… no no no. • Wait, didn’t you want to make a recipe with a cookies and cream whipped cream? Better get the cookies. Two bags, just to be sure.
Cut to: home from the grocery store eating Oreos for dinner.
Could one of you please call an adult and ask them to come live with me?
We’re starting with the cake base.
Chocolate, like every good cake base should be.
Into the bowl go flour, sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder, leavening, and salt.
Grab a spoon and stir it up. It’s simple!
Chocolate cake is all sorts of understanding. This is a vegan cake with fat from canola oil and flavor from coffee and vanilla extract.
Wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Just a wooden spoon to stir.
I love a recipe that doesn’t require a mixer.
Smooth and glossy chocolate cake batter. What is more beautiful? Few things.
I want to stick my face in this bowl forever.
We’re making a single layer cake. Keeping things simple but still special.
While the cake bakes we have a few minutes to make the whipped cream (and eat a TON of Oreo cookies before assembling the cake).
A soft whip, not hardening the cream too much.
Then COOOKIES! Adding crumbled chocolate sandwich cookies to the whipped cream will soften the cookies like an icebox cake.
Spoiler alert: TOO GOOD.
Cooled chocolate cake is topped with cookies and cream whipped cream.
Feel like a genius? Too easy.
The whipped cream is topped with sweet, fresh strawberries and waaay more cookie crumbled.
Then, call someone you love and insist that they come over to eat this cake. You don’t want to be left alone with this thing for too long.
This is one of those unassuming chocolate cakes, humble and gracious until it’s topped with an unreasonable amount of whipped cream, fresh strawberries, and cookies. When served chilled from the fridge, the cakes reminds me of an ice cream cake if chocolate, cookies and cream, and strawberry ice cream got together and made friends.
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Strawberry Cookies and Cream Cake
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-processed cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup warm coffee
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
For the Topping
- 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup crumbled Oreo cookies plus more cookies for topping
- 1 pint fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced in half if large
Instructions
- Place rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan, dust with flour and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together coffee, oil, and vanilla.
- Add the wet ingredients, all at once to the dry ingredients and whisk until just combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 18-22 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- While the cake is cooling, make the whipped cream topping. In a medium bowl whip the cream, powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla to soft peaks. Add the cookie crumbled and fold to combine.
- To top the cake, dollop whipped cream on top of the cooled cake and spread into an even layer. top with strawberries and cookie crumbles. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
71 Responses
This cake looks amazing! That Oreo whipped cream will haunt my dreams forever, in a good way…
I just made this for my birthday party and it went down very well! It was really easy to make and looked and tasted spectacular – thanking you!
This cake isn’t vegan… it has dairy in it. But still delicious nonetheless!
I made this for my birthday this week and it was a hit! I doubled the recipe to make a double layer cake and put berries and whipped cream in between layers. I also used raspberries and blueberries with the strawberries. It was the perfect summer cake!
I made this cake for a birthday today – gorgeous! Although it really doesn’t make much batter, so the cake turned out rather thin. Is that what it’s meant to be? I would double the batter next time (yes, there will be a next time).
This was wonderful! I doubled the recipe and made it into a trifle – loved it!
Hey Joy! Are those the correct measurements for the wet ingredients? I followed the directions exactly and my cake mix is very dry and not glossy or pourable.
Hi Mia…Did your cake turn out alright? I’m making mine right now and “pouring the batter” was not an option for me. Very thick…it more “glopped” in the pan. Slightly worried right now…
Made this for a dinner with friends. Absolutely delicious and very simple. Actually, my kids did most if it. Great summer recipe. Thanks!
I made this for some people who don’t like coffee and I subbed in some good chai tea and it turned out great with the spices! I’m eating the leftovers for dinner now ; )
Dear Joy, I made this cake. It was overall tasty, but: I love your cookies, I adore your biscuits (especially the blue cheese biscuits with tomato cobbler), I’m the huge fan of the any kind of brownies, so I’m sorry to say that the chocolate cake base in this reciepe is amazingly dry (despite I baked it much less time). I know that nobody ever said it is supposed to be cheewy and moist, but also you didn’t say it’s so “not brownie like” :(
It all looks AWESOME!!! :)
It’s a perfect day for me as I found your blog! Your Strawberry Cookies and Cream Cake recipe is very sweet and looks so delicious! I think I’m falling in love with this recipe. This would a perfect dish especially this summer. I know my family is going to love it. Can’t wait to try this. Your other delicious recipe</a also are all fantastic perfect for diet. Thanks friend for this sharing. Nice post indeed. Have a blessed day!
That looks so amazing. I will definitely be making this sometime soon.
I made this for our Memorial Day party & it was a HUGE hit! Thanks for a great recipe – not a crumb left…
WOW. I really can’t wait to try this! Gorgeous photography too!
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@ Allison….I actually don’t keep coffee around, so I did sub in a mixture of milk and water for the coffee and worked fine.
Joy, this cake is a joy! I made this for tonight’s dinner guests and it was a huge hit! The cake is kind of half way between cake and brownie and just perfect with the soft cream and the berry contrast. I’m not usually a fan of anything with chopped or crushed Oreos, but in this context it is the perfect extra sweetness that is needed. I baked the cake last night and put it in the fridge (wrapped up tightly) and then did the rest this morning, so it had all day to soften, blend and chill while I did other things. Perfect. Thank you!
That is a beautiful cake! Looks SO delicious :)
so beautiful! your talent with food is truly tremendous (yay alliteration!).
Haha,:] joy, you’re so awesome, I love your food style.
Have a happy day.
Yes! I’ve been looking everywhere for the perfect dessert recipe for a dinner party that’s coming up and this is it!
I hope it looks half as good as this one.
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If you don’t want coffee in it do you need to substitute something else for it or just leave it out?
The narrative is all to familiar and funny! This recipe is right up our alley — we cannot wait to taste the whipped cream topped with strawberries and cookies – thanks for an amazing must-try reicpe.
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I always end up with way more stuff then I need when I go to the grocery store. Looks delicious!
Oh good golly, I love everything about this! Girl, you are a damn genius.
That’s brilliant. All longing to get home and try this. The recipe is simple. Really appreciate.
That’s Brilliant. All salivating. Cant wait to get home and make this. Looks so simple and delicious.
I’ve just found gluten free ‘Oreos’ in our local supermarket. This cake is dangerously close to becoming a reality. Please don’t send a rescue party…
I made it! Everyone loved it! It was so delicious! Thank you!????????
I’m on my way to New Orleans okseeyousoonbyyyyeeeeee…
Lol, I can’t agree with you more! The cake looks pretty innocent til you douse it with triple whip cream;)
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Do I have my wallet, where’s my wallet, who stole my wallet, oh here’s my wallet. Lol that is soooo my mom.
Life is hard.
well this is stinkin’ beautiful! You’re about to break my ‘I haven’t had Oreos in a decade’ streak. And i’m okay with that.
Great post. I have similar thoughts when I am in the grocery store. Wish I could eat a slice of this cake right now!
That looks like heaven in cake form Joy! What can we use to substitute the coffee if we aren’t coffee drinkers? And since the cake is vegan (and oreos too!), I’d love to make it for my vegan sister. Any thoughts on what the whipped cream could be subbed for?
I am probably gonna shock a few people but I am not a fan of Oreos. That being said, this is probably gonna be the next cake I make. Looks so good and it will definitely be a hit with my bunch.
You’re amazing, Joy! Strawberry cookies and cream sounds delish. And the “Would it be weird if I just started eating this baguette now” made me laugh.
Definitely planning on this for a coworker’s birthday now since Oreos are a thing around the office. But can this be made the night before? Will it get soggy? Would it be best to wait to layer the cream and strawberries on top right before serving? Thanks!
Hi – Can I just use water or milk instead of coffee?? thanks!!
sure!
I think I just gained 10 lbs looking at this cake. I love oreos with a passion! This looks amazing!
I’ll need to find a reason to make this!
Woooow, this cake is what can be named temptation !! :) Oreo and strawberries, I’m jealous to not had thought about it first !!
So happy to have discovered you blog, it’s amazing :)
This looks so freakin’ good! I love how uncomplicated it is. The perfect summer dessert!
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Looks delicious! Would be a great dessert for a Memorial Day BBQ.
An absolutely lovely, colorful and easy cake to prepare! I always love the photographs of your dishes!
Maybe we could find a bi-coastal adult to split their time between the two of us? I need one too. This looks all kinds of crazy deliciousness. xx
I laughed out loud (at work) at your grocery store internal commentary. Only because I’ve had the same conversation with myself. This cake looks goooood….
I feel like I need to make this… in layers! oooo the cookies and strawberries together are just perfect…I mean really…isn’t anything with chocolate and strawberries perfect?
Oh my, I need to make this cake now! Have a great Memorial Day weekend!!!
Oh my goodness this is SO ME when I go to the grocery. Literally I end up eating ice cream for dinner 80% of the time. But this cake looks fantastic. I adore oreos and strawberries so this looks perfect!
Listen, I was with you until the “I hate scallops” bit. We can’t be friends anymore.
This is genius and is going to be made tonight! I love that the cake is vegan with oreos….pure,awesomeness.
That beautiful cake has my name on it! Gah, totally craving for it now!
Uhhh…I just had E.L. Fudge cookies for breakfast. Double Stuffed. (Both the cookies and me!) So I’m probably not your adult.
That being said, this looks amazing, and I may have to make a trip to the store for more cookies!
Chocolate cake, whipped cream, Oreos, strawberries… my favorite dessert-y things. YES PLEEEASE.
Your lead in story put a big smile on my face. No adult allowed when this is the result!
Pure brilliance in cake form, and something this non-baker wants to attempt :)
Oreo cookie whipped cream?!? I’m all in!
Oh my….”pinning” it RIGHT now!
Joy, you minx! I want this cake right now — for breakfast! I shall have no oatmeal this AM. Only this will do.
I LOVE how this cake is vegan and how you added Oreos to it! You can never go wrong adding them to anything (or eating them for dinner). I always forget my list going to the grocery store and end up buying twice as many things I didn’t need!!
this looks so good, can’t wait to try it and just stuff my face with it’s goodness :D <3
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Love the strawberries on this cake! It’s gorgeous!
I need someone to have a party just so I can bring this cake. Think I might replace the canola with coconut oil, since I certainly wouldn’t mind a slight coconut flavor. Uuuuugh, now this is what I want for breakfast
I know that this is not something I can make without pieces of strawberry and cookie going everywhere and I’m totally ok with that. As long as they eventually find their way into my mouth, we have no problem. I just won’t wear white.
Yes please to all of it.
Arggh! It looks so delicious and I got all excited that it was going to be dairy free when you mentioned that it was Vegan. And then the whipped cream spoilt it. I’m going to have to try this with a dairy free replacement for cream…
This cake looks absolutely gorgeous! I love your blog, you post such lovely ideas and recipes.
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This looks like a perfect excuse to buy Oreos…aka a great Memorial Day BBQ dessert.