You don’t need a lengthy, complicated recipe or even turn on your oven to bake a scrumptious chocolate cake.

After spotting a three-ingredient chocolate cake recipe online from baking pro Or Cohen of the food blog Rich and Delicious, it looked and sounded too good not to try out.

The baker said: “This three-ingredient chocolate cake is the easiest way to make a chocolate cake, and it tastes amazing! This chocolate cake is moist, rich in flavour, and quick.”

With a baking time of 20 minutes, all you will need for this cake is chocolate cookies, baking powder and milk.

There is the option to make a chocolate ganache to coat the top, which I did add, but that includes an extra two ingredients.

Ingredients 

For the sponge 

350g Oreos or any chocolate cookies, I used the double stuffed Oreos

244g milk

One teaspoon baking powder

For the chocolate ganache (optional) 

100g double cream

100g dark chocolate

Method 

I started by preheating my oven to 180 degrees and greased and lined an eight-inch cake tin with butter and baking parchment.

After weighing out the ingredients, I added the Oreos to my food processor until fine crumbs formed – I had to do this in two batches to ensure the biscuits crushed up fine enough.

In a big mixing bowl, I added the Oreo crumbs and poured in the milk and baking powder before mixing well until the batter was smooth.

I then poured the batter into the cake tin and placed it in the oven to bake for 20 minutes. To check if the cake is ready make sure to use a toothpick.

Once ready, I let the cake cool for 15 minutes in the tin before letting it fully cool on a rack.

In the meantime, I got started on the chocolate ganache. To do so I added the double cream and dark chocolate to a small bowl and microwaved it for one to two minutes.

I then let it sit for 10 minutes before giving it a mix until it was all smooth.

All that was left to do was to pour the chocolate ganache over the cake and let it set for a few minutes before digging in.

This cake would go incredibly well with ice cream on the side or simply with some fresh fruit on top – particularly raspberries.

However, the cake tastes just as delicious on its own and kind of resembles the texture of a fudgy brownie.