Cookie Monster Traybake
Light and fluffy vanilla cake with Blue vanilla buttercream, decorated with oreos, chocolate chip cookies and edible googly eyes
Ingredients
For the sponge
- 5 Free-Range eggs Medium
- 230 g Butter/Stork
- 230 g Self-raising flour
- 230 g Caster sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract or Vanilla bean paste
For the Buttercream and decoration
- 150 g Butter
- 300 g Icing sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- Blue gel food colouring I use Sugarflair
- Edible googly eyes
- 6-8 Oreos Chopped
- 6-8 Chocolate chip cookies Chopped
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C/160C Fan and grease and line a 10 x 8" traybake tin or 8"/20cm square cake tin. Set aside.
- Using a mixer, cream together the butter/Stork and light brown sugar until light and fluffy - around 3 minutes. Add the eggs, vanilla and flour until just combined- around 30 seconds.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the centre of the oven for around 30-45 minutes. The cake will be ready when a skewer or knife inserted into the centre is clean. Leave to cool completely.
- To make the buttercream, mix the butter for a minute, then gradually add the icing sugar. Add the vanilla. Beat together for around 3 minutes, then add the blue food colouring. Mix well until there are no streaks of blue and the colour is evenly mixed through - this may take a few minutes.
- Spread the buttercream onto the cake using a palette knife, spoon or spatula. Add the googly eyes and the chopped oreo's and chocolate chip cookies. Cut into 12-16 squares. Enjoy!
Notes
Use Stork or the supermarket equivalent for a light and fluffy cake. Butter will gave a denser cake.
If using an 8"/20cm square cake tin, the cake may take a little longer to bake.
Use gel food colouring for the buttercream. Ordinary food colouring won't work as it is too weak. I like to use Sugarflair gel colouring.
Cake will last 4-5 days stored in an airtight container.
If using an 8"/20cm square cake tin, the cake may take a little longer to bake.
Use gel food colouring for the buttercream. Ordinary food colouring won't work as it is too weak. I like to use Sugarflair gel colouring.
Cake will last 4-5 days stored in an airtight container.