Shoving biscuits into cakes/brownies is not an enhancement?

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This craze of taking a perfectly nice gooey chocolate brownie, and poking in a dry rubbish Oreo doesn't seem to be dying off.

Why?

Cake has its own nice texture, and doesn't need a custard cream in the middle to ruin it. If you actually like this, just buy a cake and a biscuit.

AIBU or do you agree?

YANBU.

But my DS is drawn to these monstrosities like a moth to a flame

I totally agree. I don't understand the point of a chocolate lollipop with a stale Jammy Dodger stuck to it either.

I made Oreo cheesecake yesterday. It was def an enhancement.
Other options are available, people like them or they wouldn't buy/make them, so YABU

Oreo cheesecake actually involves breaking up the Oreos though and distributing them throughout which actually enhances the cheesecake and often using it as a base. Half of these monstrosities literally just have a random biscuit plonked on top.

This is the difference between an apple and blackberry crumble, and sticking a whole, wrinkly apple on top of a blackberry crumble. The two are not remotely the same. Also I will pm you my address so you can send me cheesecake, thank you.

Surely that is what Rocky Road is for? Not brownies.
However the last one of those I had was stuffed full of stale digestives and no nice jelly sweets so I don't bother any more. (Coffee shop, cake recipes change with every visit and not always nice).

That's exactly it @NotJohnWick and @WeddingVegetables !

And my local coffee shop only does cakes with this kind of added bullshit so there is no choice.

Down with this sort of thing.

Cheesecake is not “cake” or biscuit as described in the OP, so pp is BU.

OP, YANBU. I don’t want stale biscuit or dry cake. Don’t get me started on blondies.

I blame Lorraine Pascale for starting the trend of putting Cadbury' Fingers around chocolate cakes. Except her recipe was beautiful chocolate tubes not bog standard biscuits.
www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/i_cant_believe_you_made_90494

I suspect biscuits are cheaper than good quality brownie/cake ingredients and that’s the motivation for businesses.

Completely agree. The whole point of a brownie is that it’s melting and gooey and smooth. Rocky road I can just about tolerate biscuit in but cake is cake and biscuit is biscuit. Millionaires shortbread is the only successful crossover I can think of but that’s shortbread with a topping, it’s not pretending to be ‘cake’. If I want cake I want cake, I don’t want to have to dunk it in my tea.

I think it just speaks to people's inner greed - the more extravagant it looks, the more people feel like they are getting a treat. Same reason why chocolate fountains were popular for a while, because they seem so decadent despite actually just being melted chocolate and oil on fruit and marshmallows.

It looks good on insta, but the reality is a stale,slightly soggy biscuit that's soaked up moisture from the cake and has to be removed before eating.

This is an abomination. The only legitimate additions to brownie batter are small chocolate chunks and dried fruit. And nuts, if you must.

The only legitimate additions to brownie batter are small chocolate chunks and dried fruit. And nuts, if you must.

Dried fruit? Dried fruit? You take that back right now!

I can’t see the appeal, it’s too much and makes a nice treat look overindulgent and sickly. But they do seem to be popular with lots of people.

It's a disgusting amount of calories.

Yeah definitely no dried fruit! Fresh cherries are good as are nuts.

@WeddingVegetables 😂😂i agree! Way to spoil a lovely brownie. Chocolate chunks and a swirl of peanut butter/caramel is only acceptable additional to a brownie!

Agreed. Also this modern Satanism of scraping the filling out of Oreos, blitzing them up and using them to make a sort of gravelly, greasy "cookies and cream" version of everything from cheesecake to ice cream. Just fucking STOP IT.

@SomeSix it's actually a Lorraine recipe where she makes Oreo brownies!

I agree wholeheartedly with all this, and especially loathe ice cream with nasty bits of cookies and biscuits added. It completely ruins the lovely smooth texture of the ice cream.

Any time you put biscuit with cake, the cake goes dry and the biscuit goes stale. Even this sort of thing, which I've made before and looks fab for a children's party but tastes shit unless you assemble a nanosecond before you eat it.

There was a pop up market near me selling these brownies recently, SIX QUID for a regular sized brownie with a few biscuits stuffed in the top! The stall looked really popular too, don’t get it

its gross. As is putting a stale biscuit on top of a doughnut. Just WHY???