Sam’s Yummy Birthday cake
It’s my daughter Sam’s 4th birthday last October 25. And for her birthday, I decided to make a no-bake home-made dessert which also served as her birthday cake. I made Oreo cookie Graham cake and Fruity Graham cake with Sam and Ley’s help. They enjoyed the mixing and tasting! I think they have a future in cooking, they like playing restaurant where they call me “miss” and they ask me “miss, ano pong order mo?”
Sam and a slice of her birthday cake
Before we get to another story, here are the ingredients:
For the Oreo Cookie Graham Cake:
- Graham crackers (original or choco-flavored)
- 3 cups of crushed Oreo Cookies
- 2 pouches of Nestle All-purpose cream, chilled
- 1 medium can of condensed milk
- gelatin powder (1 packet of Alsa Gulaman)
- 1/2 cup of milk (water will also do)
- whole Oreo cookies for decor
Procedure:
- First, melt the gelatin powder in 1/2 cup of milk (or water). Heat in pan until gelatin is fully dissolved. Set aside to warm a little bit. This will serve as a binder for a firmer cream mixture.
- Then, in a separate bowl, mix the chilled all-purpose cream and condensed milk. Stir in 1 1/2 cup of the crushed cookies and the melted gelatin. Mix well.
- you can let the kids help in the mixing. Kids will enjoy this stuff, as for my kids, I can see in their faces whenever I let them help out with the cooking and other chores like making the bed, drying the spoons and forks, they feel proud and they feel confident that I trusted them with an adult stuff. This is big deal for them!
- Line a baking pan or any other container with Aluminum foil or plastic wrap. This will make taking out the graham cake easier.
- After this, line the pan with whole graham crackers, make sure to cover the base of the pan. Pour part of the cream mixture to thinly cover the crackers. Repeat this step to have 2 layers of cream-covered Graham crackers. – Kids can also help in this, let them figure out how they can properly cover the pan with Graham crackers.
Graham and Cream layers
- Spread the remaining 1 1/2 cup of crushed Oreo cookies and cover with cream mixture then top with 2 more layers of the graham crackers and cream.
Oreo cookie cream mixture
- Decorate the top with whole Oreo cookies. If there are left-over Oreo cookies, this can serve as a rewarding merienda for your kids for helping in the kitchen!
- Chill for an hour or two. Serve cold.
Oreo Cookie Graham Cake
For the Fruity Graham Cake, just substitute the Oreo Cookies with a fruit cocktail. And you can use the fruit syrup to melt the gelatin powder. As final touch, set aside some of the melted gelatin to glaze the top layer of your Fruity Graham cake. Yum!
This Graham cake is also good as giveaway to your loved ones for Christmas, you can make smaller versions using those rectangular-shaped microwaveable containers. Your friends will surely love it!
Hmm, never had graham cake with Oreos before.
Maybe I’ll ask my mom to make one this holiday season.
@jhay, its good, and its definitely a big hit with the kids! try it!
oh got hungry to this graham cake..looks yummy,thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for this recipe…I will try this cake this Holiday season.
Hi everyone, thanks for your comments, plese do try the recipes. I will be posting a halloween version of the cake in awhile!
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