CELEBRATE WITH CAKE

A birthday wouldn’t be a birthday without cake. So join our celebrations with these very special bakes (they take a bit of time but, they’re worth it!)

1 To make the icing, put the butter in a bowl and sieve in half the icing sugar. Mash with a spatula, then whizz with a hand mixer until smooth. Add the cream cheese and sieve in the remaining icing sugar, mash, then blend with the hand mixer. Put the Oreos in a food processor and whizz to fine crumbs. Add to the icing. Mix until combined.

2 Next, make the cookie cake toppers. You’ll need one Oreo for each letter of the word you’d like to write. Carefully insert a skewer into the creamy filling in the middle of each Oreo – some cookies may break, so save these ones for later. Melt the chocolate in the microwave, stirring every 20 secs or so, or in a heatproof bowl suspended over a pan of gently simmering water. Spread a little chocolate over the surface of one side of each cookie. Roll out the fondant icing to the thickness of a 50p coin, and cut out your letters, then stick these to the cookies and set aside to dry.

3 To assemble the cake, stick one of your sponges to a cake stand or board with a little of the cream cheese icing. Use roughly half the icing to stack the remaining cakes on top, spreading a generous amount between each layer. Pile the remaining icing on top of the assembled cake, and use a palette knife to ease it over the edges, covering the entire surface of the cake. Break leftover Oreos into pieces and push around the base of the cake. Insert the dried cookie cake toppers into the top of the cake and serve. Chill for up to 2 days, but bring back to room temperature for an hour before eating.