Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

Hello Cupcake Lovers,
I had a pack of oreos I had told my family not to eat because I was going to use them for baking. And I finally found I recipe to use them for. This recipe is so delious. This is probally the best oreo cupcake recipe in the world. It even comes with the recipe for the frosting. The frosting taste like the middle part of a oreo. Yummy. The full baking and directions
here.
Cupcakes:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup natural
unsweetened cocoa
1 1/4 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon
baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1
teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup hot water
24 Oreos, plus more for
crumbs
Baking Instructions for the cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line tray with 12 baking cups.
- Place one whole cookie in each cup or break apart at least 12 cookies and
place the broken pieces into each cup.
- Mix the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a large
mixing bowl using a wire whisk.
- Add the eggs, oil, vanilla and milk and mix well until thoroughly combined.
Add the hot water and mix until combined.
- Transfer the batter (it will be very liquid) to a large measuring cup and
then pour batter into each baking cup so it’s about three quarters full. You
should have a little left over.
- Bake for 16-18 minutes.
Makes at least 12 cupcakes
Frosting:
1 cup shortening
1 lb. powdered sugar
1
teaspoon vanilla
3-6 Tablespoons milk
2 or more teaspoons Oreo cookie
crumbs
For the frosting:
- Beat the shortening in a mixer until smooth.
- Add vanilla and mix until combined.
- Add the powdered sugar in three additions, scraping down the sides after
each addition.
- Add a Tablespoon of milk at a time and mix together until you achieve the
consistency you like.
- Add the cookie crumbs and mix until completely combined. You can add more if
you like, but I just wanted a light speckling to show off the white frosting.
- Place frosting in a decorator bag with a 1M tip and swirl on top of each
cupcake.
- Insert a cookie on top of each cupcake.
- You can also apply frosting on each cupcake in a mounded shape. Turn upside
down and roll the top around in a small bowl of cookie crumbs to coat.
For the frosting you can also apply the frosting in a mounded shape and dunk the cupcakes in a bowl of
cookie crumbs to coat. But for this style you but a whole oreo at the bottom of the tray. Then you pour you batter over the whole oreo.
