Birthday Cake

It was my roommate's 21st birthday this weekend and instead of buying her a gift, I decided to bake her a cake because it's delicious and easy and I like coming up with cake ideas.  Past cakes of mine have included a 4-layer red velvet cake with polka dot icing, peanut butter marble cake, and a dark chocolate raspberry cake.  I decided to go with an Oreo cake this time, but of course the grocery store was out of regular Oreos.  Luckily, there was one deli open (the product of late night grocery shopping in the financial district) that sold small packages of Oreos.  I made a chocolate devil's food cake with a layer of Oreos, and then because I for some reason decided to make the really smart decision of not putting the flat sides of the cakes together, I put Oreos around the outside of the cake to hide the gapping hole between the 2 layers.  All in all, I think it was a pretty successful baking experience.

1 layer done:

Finished product chilling in the fridge (btw, it says 21!, not 211):