Tell Me About These Cookies & Cream Cupcakes
Flavor: Today’s cookies and cream cupcakes are a flavorful adaptation of these very vanilla cupcakes. We’re skipping the extra vanilla flavor and folding heaps of chopped Oreo cookies right into the batter. Beyond that beloved Oreo cookie flavor, the frosting choice is up to you. You can frost them with smooth and silky milk chocolate buttercream, a frosting you may recognize from these chocolate cupcakes. We also love these cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, Swiss meringue buttercream and even chocolate peanut butter frosting. Texture: These cupcakes have a slightly denser and more buttery moist texture than my traditional vanilla cupcakes, which are made with creamed butter and sugar. Today’s cupcakes use melted butter which guarantees big buttery flavor and also allows us to easily mix the cupcake batter together by hand. Skip the egg yolks to ensure a fluffy crumb and don’t get nervous about crunchy cookies inside your cupcakes—the Oreo cookie pieces soften into a lovely cakey texture. Ease: This is a really easy cupcake recipe because the batter comes together in a flash. There’s really no crazy ingredients involved and if decorating with piping tips isn’t your thing, just use a knife to pile the frosting on top.
Overview: How to Make Cookies & Cream Cupcakes
The full printable recipe is below, but let’s quickly walk through it so you understand each step before getting started.
Avoid Greasy Cupcakes
I receive a lot of questions about keeping cupcake liners grease-free. My team and I have discovered that it really depends on the recipe. If the cupcake batter is filled with fat like oil or butter, grease could penetrate into the liners as the baked cupcakes cool. Greasy cupcakes are quite messy to eat and serve! Today’s cookies and cream cupcakes recipe calls for ½ cup of butter per 15 cupcakes and, while they’re certainly moist, they aren’t dripping with grease. But we have another secret: we often use greaseproof liners. When shopping for cupcake liners, look for “greaseproof” on the package.
If You Love Oreos, You’ll Enjoy These Oreo Dessert Recipes:
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