In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder In a separate bowl, mix oil, essence and extract, plus water. Pour oil mixture into flour mixture and add in vinegar. Mix to combine well. Pour batter into greased and lined with parchment paper baking pan, bake for 30-35 mins at preheated 350 F. Cool on rack
As this is a tall cake, you need to make the above cake twice!
Cover and decorate with your favorite buttercream (I used a vegan recipe online)
This cake had vegan hazelnut spread (like Nutella but more to NOTella :D), to make that all I did was process roasted hazelnut that I got from grocery store with enough maple syrup and cocoa powder. Again, easy peasy!
From two cakes, slice each and make 4 layers of cake
Place one layer on serving board, spread enough NOTella, top with another layer of cake. Spread Oreo buttercream and top with another cake. Spread NOTella again and top with another cake. Cover the whole cake with buttercream
Decorate with Oreo halves with piped white and black buttercream as eyes and spiderweb
Tada!
As this cake per cake was baked on 6 inch pan, I had left over batter which I turned them into cupcakes! My 3 yo helped me in decorating them ? For the buttercream was plain vanilla tho, not Oreo!