3-Ingredient Chocolate Cake Recipe

Name: 3-Ingredient Chocolate Cake Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: World
Ingredients: 350g (12.35oz) Oreo cookies oy any other cookies/biscuits (or combination of cookies); 2½ teaspoons Baking powder; 1½ cups (360ml) Milk; 100g (3.5oz) Dark chocolate; 1/2 cup (120ml) Heavy cream; 150g (5.3oz) Milk chocolate; 1/2 cup (120ml) Heavy cream

2020-05-22

3.5 Stars (254 Voters)

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21 Comments

This 3-ingredient chocolate cake also known as lockdown cake has been viral all over the internet in the last few months. I decided to give it a try and I was surprised how easy this cake and how good it is. All you need is some cookies/biscuits, baking powder and milk. The result is soft, fluffy and delicious cake. If you are making this cake with Oreo cookies, the cake will taste like Oreo.

DIFFICULTY

Easy

YIELDS

PREP TIME

45 Minutes

WORK TIME

15 Minutes

RECIPE CUISINE

World

INGREDIENTS

For the cake:

350g (12.35oz) Oreo cookies oy any other cookies/biscuits (or combination of cookies)
2½ teaspoons Baking powder
1½ cups (360ml) Milk

For dark chocolate ganache (optional):

100g (3.5oz) Dark chocolate
1/2 cup (120ml) Heavy cream

For milk chocolate ganache (optional):

150g (5.3oz) Milk chocolate
1/2 cup (120ml) Heavy cream

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 340F (170C). Grease 7-inch (18cm) round cake pan with butter, line the bottom with parchment paper. Grease the parchment as well. Set aside.
In a food processor or a Ziploc bag, crush the cookies into fine crumbs.
Transfer to a large bowl, add baking powder, milk and mix until combined.
Pour into prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Release from the pan, let cool and frost the cake. Decorate if desired.

Notes:

You can use Oreo cookies, chocolate cookies, vanilla cookies or any other regular cookies.
Chocolate ganache is optional; you can skip it or use your favourite frosting.
It is important to crush the cookies into fine crumbs, is you crushing by hand, make sure they are not big lumps.

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COMMENTS (21)

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emilija miknius
6/11/2020
that cake is amazing
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The Cooking Foodie
6/12/2020
Thank you! Glad you liked it :)
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amy
7/28/2020
this cake is disgusting do NOT make it
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Zermeen Ahmad
10/12/2020
Why !? What happened
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Zermeen Ahmad
10/12/2020
Why !? What happened
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tinaaaa
4/28/2021
It’s literally just oreos. How can it be disgusting?
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Breyton
6/9/2021
It’s so good I love it
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Gurl it’s Oreo if u don’t Iike Oreo then why did y
12/23/2021
Gurl it’s Oreo if u don’t Iike Oreo then why did you make it it makes no sense.
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Arianna Larson
8/5/2020
I tried this recipe and it worked great! I had to leave the cake in the oven an extra ten minutes, but it turned out well and tasted great! Super moist and yummy, 10/10
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Aimee Song
8/12/2020
Hey, just wondering- how many cookies is 350 grams of Oreos? Thanks!
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Cadence Temp
4/24/2021
about 30-31 Oreos
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Joan
8/28/2020
I used double stuff oreos plus chips ahoychoc chip cookies and the batter was VERY wet...probably due to the stuffing...so i just crushed up a lot more cookies until the batter felt almost normal thickness. Came out absolutely delicious, like a cake brownie...but I did have to bake it nearly 15 mins longer!
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Robin
8/31/2020
Can you use water instead of milk?
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Nia
1/2/2021
Do you need to include the cream of oreos in the batter?
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Dal
2/17/2021
Yes leave the cream in the Oreos biscuits. I would use milk over water because the flour mixture used to bake biscuits binds better with milk. Use alternative milk if not cows milk, unsure how it would taste, mind. I added 100g Mcvities plain digestive and about 250g Oreos, this cake turned out amazing. Because I used plain digestive, it wasn’t as sweet as it would’ve been with choc locate digestives but it was fine for us, particularly as we added ganache topping. It was beautifully moist a
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Blanca
5/9/2021
It looks rubbery and bland but the TASTE... THIS IS HEAVEN!!!
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Breyton
6/9/2021
It tasted so good I loved it 😋😋😋😋😋😍😍😍 Your recipes are great
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Batsheva
10/4/2021
I saw 7 ingredients.... and not all directions for using all these 7 ingredients.
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xing hua
10/14/2021
我要试试这个看起来很好吃……她是个很好的蛋糕制造商 ....... Wǒ yào shì shì zhège kàn qǐlái hěn hào chī……tā shìgè hěn hǎo de dàngāo zhìzào shāng
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xing hua
10/14/2021
我要试试这个看起来很好吃……她是个很好的蛋糕制造商 ....... Wǒ yào shì shì zhège kàn qǐlái hěn hào chī……tā shìgè hěn hǎo de dàngāo zhìzào shāng
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Suzanne
12/22/2021
How do you make the Chocolate Ganash?
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