Oreo Butter Cake ~ 奥利奥牛油蛋糕

I've baked Oreo chiffon cake,  Oreo marble butter cake and this Oreo Butter Cake is another add-on to the list of butter cakes that I've posted before.  This butter cake recipe is indeed very versatile and one can tweak it here and there and yet the outcome is most rewarding.  In fact it will spur you on to try other variance of the recipe.

Oreo Butter Cake  ~  奥利奥牛油蛋糕
Ingredients (A)

• 230 gm butter
• 150 gm caster sugar
• 200 gm self-raising flour (sifted)
• 4 egg yolks (about 68 gm with shell)
• 40 ml milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• a pinch of salt
• 50 gm Oreo cookies, cream removed and crushed (7 cookies)

(B)

•  4 egg whites
• 20 gm caster sugar

Method

1. Sift the flour with salt, set aside.
2. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.  Add in egg yolks one @ time, mix well.
3. Add in sifted flour alternating with the milk.
4. Mix in crushed cookies.  Set aside.
5. Beat egg whites till frothy and gradually add in sugar in batches.  Continue beating till still but not dry.
6. Fold in the egg whites into the butter mixture.  Mix till fully incorporated.
7. Scoop batter into a parchment lined 8 inch square pan, spread evenly.
8. Sprinkle on the bigger pieces of cookies.
9. Bake in a preheated oven @ 160 deg.C for 45 to 50 mins.  Test with a skewer till it comes out clean.  Remove from oven and let cool in pan for about 10 mins. before unmoulding and transferring onto a wire rack to cool completely.