Recipe- Oreo Cupcakes With Cookies And Cream Frosting

Oreo are probably everyone’s favorite cookies or is it the chocolate chips cookies? Well doesn’t matter, all that matters is that everyone loves Oreo and these Oreo cupcakes are just perfect for your Oreo craving! They are so good. These vanilla oreo cupcakes are topped with some delicious cookies & cream frosting.

You know I always say that I love cakes but I am not that fond of frosting but this frosting, oh my god it was so good. I really wanted to take a spoon and eat a bowl full of frosting while I was making these cupcakes.Talking about the cupcakes, these are vanilla Oreo cupcakes. You can also make chocolate Oreo cupcakes and I bet they would taste divine too. They are definitely on my “to-bake” list, which also has some 7894530 other things. Such a hopeless baking addict I am! *sigh*

I used buttermilk in this recipe instead of milk and believe me it does make a difference to your final cupcakes. Buttermilk makes the cakes/cupcakes really moist so try and use it while baking these cupcakes.

Ingredients

1.5 cups all purpose flour
1.5 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
¾ cup granulated white sugar
½ cup brown sugar
¾ cup vegetable oil
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1.25 cups broken oreos
16-18 oreo halves
2 eggs at room temperature
4 oz cream cheese softened
¾ cup unsalted butter at room temperature
3-3.5 cups confectioners sugar
¾ tsp vanilla
¼ tsp salt
2-3 tbsp heavy cream or milk
1 cup oreo crumbs oreos completely crushed in a blender & then strained
mini oreos for decorating the cupcakes

Method

* Line a muffin pan with cupcakes liners, set aside.

* Preheat the oven to 350 F degrees.

* In a bowl sift together all purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.

* Using your mixer, beat the eggs and both the sugars together till creamy & pale in color, around 3-4 minutes.

* Add oil, vanilla and mix till combined.

* Add the flour mixture and buttermilk in batches, starting and ending with flour.

* Mix the batter till everything is well combined but do not over-mix.

* Fold in the broken Oreo pieces, stir and combine.

* Place an Oreo on the bottom of each cupcake liner or twist the
* Oreo and put one cookie at the bottom of the pan with cream side up [I did this].

* Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake for 15-20 minutes on until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Mine were done in 16 minutes.

* Cool the cupcakes on wire rack before frosting them.

* Crush Oreos in a blender to get Oreo crumbs. Strain the mixture to get rid of any bigger chunks.

* Using your mixer, beat butter and cream cheese together until smooth and creamy.

* With mixture at low speed, add 1 cup of confectioners sugar.
* Mix till it's incorporated with the butter and cream cheese and then beat it at high speed for 30 seconds. Add the remaining sugar and mix. Also add the salt.

* Add vanilla and cream/milk and mix.

* Add Oreo crumbs and beat till frosting is smooth and creamy.

* Frost the cupcakes and decorate with mini oreos.