Black and White Cookie Ripple Coffee Cake

By mytastytreasures

Terrific coffee or dessert cake with some oreos throughout!

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 6 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 3/4 cups buttermilk*
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 30 + coarsely chopped sandwich cookies (Oreos)

Preparation

Step 1

PREPARATION:

Soften butter by letting it stand for 30-45 minutes at room temperature OR cut into chunks and allow to stand for 15 minutes at room temperature
Coarsely chop the Oreos - I put 20 chopped cookies in one bowl (for filling) and the rest in another bowl (topping)
DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a tube pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
In a mixer bowl, cream softened butter and sugar on medium speed until well blended. Add eggs 2 at a time, and blend on medium speed until blended, scraping bowl often to make sure no butter or sugar sticks to the bottom. Add vanilla and buttermilk and blend well. Fold in the dry ingredients and blend until batter is smooth, about 2 to 4 minutes.
Pour 2/3 of the batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle 2/3 of cookie pieces over batter (the 20 cookies), putting more on perimeter than direction in middle area (cookie pieces are less likely to sink when dispersed this way). Top with remaining batter and top batter evenly with remaining cookie pieces.
Bake 45 minutes and then reduce oven temp to 325. Finish baking until cake tests done with a cake skewer that almost comes out clean, another 15-20 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in pan before turning cake out onto a serving plate. Let cake cool completely before adding glaze.
GLAZE:

1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2-6 tablespoons buttermilk*
*I measured 6 tablespoons milk and not quite half a tablespoon of white vinegar. Stir and wait 5 minutes.

For glaze, whisk sugar, butter and vanilla together. Slowly add enough buttermilk to make a thin glaze. (I didn’t use all the milk). Drizzle glaze over top of cake with a fork or whisk. Let glaze set