The original recipe is from Maida Heatter, but I got it from Katy G. who is pretty much the queen of pound cake recipes. Thanks Katy, Maida Heatter and Nabisco. And Nabisco, please keep making Halloween Oreos. For those of you not interested in putting Oreos in Maida Heatter’s Pound Cake, just omit them and follow the recipe as usual.
Maida Heatter’s Pound Cake
18 whole Oreo cookies (Halloween Colored) — Optional!
2 3/4 cups (330g) all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 oz (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cool room temp (230 grams)
1 1/2 cups (300g) superfine sugar
3 whole eggs, large, cool room temp
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract
1 cup sour cream, cool room temp (230 grams)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. If you are using a black Bundt pan, preheat to 325 degrees F. Spray a Bundt pan with flour-added cooking spray.
Break the cookies into quarters; set aside. If not using cookies, skip this step!
Sift together flour, salt and baking soda. Reserve.
Cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer, beating for about 3 minutes. Beat in eggs, one by one, then beat in extracts and sour cream.
Add flour mixture and stir just until it is well-mixed – it should be fairly thick.
Spoon about 1 1/2 cups of the batter into bottom of prepared pan. Form a shallow trench in the center of batter.
If adding broken cookies, fold them into remaining batter and finish filling pan, spreading the batter up the sides a bit to prevent a dome shape.
Bake for 50-60 minutes, until a tester inserted near the center comes out with crumbs. Cool and dust with powdered sugar and cocoa powder. You could glaze it, but it’s not necessary.
Natalie
What a perfect idea for Halloween! I might steal it for my party 😉
Karen
I’ve made this recipe from Maida Heatter’s book many times, it’s delicious. But I’ve never used the colorful oreos! If I can find them I think I’ll make this for Halloween.
PS The glaze for this cake is really good, 6 oz semisweet chocolate, 2 ounces butter, 1 Tbsp cream.
Kristen
This is such a good idea! I made a cake like this with regular oreos not too long ago… adding the halloween oreos is brilliant!
Anna
I don’t know what a chili dump is and am scared to look for that on Google ;).
Anyway. Good news, Jennifer! I sliced this cake up this morning and sent it off to my husband’s office. It sliced perfectly. Wait a few hours or overnight, though. I think it slices better after it rests.
Jennifer
I’m going to a “*chili dump” in a couple of weeks and am planning to make this for dessert. One question, like most bundt cakes, does it hold up well to slicing and eating sans fork?
(*everyone brings ingredients and it all gets dumped together to make a big pot of chili)
Lisa magicsprinkles
This sounds so good, it’s Spoooooky!
Mary
Anna,
I love Maida Heatter’s recipes and this looks like so much fun. Wish I were a kid again! Fuzz is one lucky little girl.
giz
Kids just make you have more fun. And that’s why I don’t ever want to grow up. You’re having wwwaaayyyy too much fun with this cake – I wanna play too.
Anna
Oh yeah! They are normal flavor. They are, however, more like Double Stuff and the filling is softer than regular Oreos.
clumbsycookie
Such a fun cake! Those are just normal flavour oreos but orange? Wouldn’t it be awesome that they were pumpkin? I can’t wait to hear all about the Halloween party!
Erin Mylroie
I love hosting a Halloween party every year. I already have those Oreos just sitting in the cupboard…waiting.
Katrina
Yum! You know I’m all about Oreos in everything right now! 😉 Bring on the Halloween ideas!
Anonymous
All of your recipes look AMAZING! I have a long list of ones to try!
Didn’t you say/write that you can just eat one or two bites of all these yummy sweets? I don’t have such will power and cannot imagine what would happen with all these sweets in my house!
Debbie G
I am definitely making this one. What a great idea!
bakingblonde
I would not have thought to add oreos to a bundt cake! Love it!!
Rina
October sounds exciting – are you planning to visit Levain? I hope so!
VeggieGirl
So cute!! Good luck planning Fuzz’s party!!
Sara
Looks delicious as always!
Jennifer
Wow, that looks great! I really, really like pound cakes/bundt cakes. And I (unfortunately!) love OREO’s.
Jennifer