Oreo cookies and cream cupcakes are chocolatey cupcakes with an Oreo cookie baked right in! Top with a creamy white chocolate cream cheese frosting studded with more Oreo’s for the perfect “cookies and cream” experience!
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My baby sister calls one day and tells me of this dreamy cupcake a co-worker brought in to work. She said it was a moist chocolate cupcake with an Oreo baked in the batter and a Cookies and Cream kind of frosting. “Can you make these?” she inquired.
“Do you have a recipe?”
“Nope.”
Ok then. So I gave it a shot and these are it. Are they the same? She said pretty close, but at any rate they are a moist chocolate cupcake with a mound of creamy white chocolate and cream cheese frosting with a chocolate sandwich cookie baked into the batter and plenty of them chopped and folded into the frosting.
Ingredients needed for the Oreo Cupcakes:
- Chocolate Cake Mix-really you can use whatever flavor of cake mix you’d like here: white, yellow, red velvet but the chocolate cake mix with the chocolate Oreo is my favorite.
- Greek Yogurt-we’re using Greek Yogurt instead of oil as the fat portion of our cake. Greek Yogurt makes cakes nice and fluffy.
- Water-a little less than the cake mix calls for because our Greek Yogurt has some water in it too.
- Eggs-to bind everything together and create structure in our cupcake.
- Oreos-Far and away my preference here is Double Stuf but they make basically every flavor of Oreo possible so you do you.
Ingredients needed for the Oreo Buttercream:
- White chocolate-real white chocolate. Look for a white chocolate that has cocoa butter listed as one of the ingredients. There are a lot of things that seem like white chocolate, but without the cocoa butter, they are not real white chocolate. There is a difference in taste. I like to use Baker’s white chocolate bars and chop them up and melt them.
- Cream Cheese-softened. Full fat. This isn’t the place to skimp on calories.
- Butter–softened. Salted or unsalted will work just fine here. I use salted.
- Lemon juice-an unexpected ingredient but the dash of acid cuts the sweetness from the white chocolate and really balances everything out.
- Oreos-again, whatever flavor you like.
Ultimate Oreo Cookies and Cream Cupcakes
Equipment
- Mixer
- muffin pan
Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 1 cup 2% Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 eggs
- 24 double stuff chocolate sandwich cookies
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. If using a stand mixer, fit with paddle attachment.
- Prepare a muffin pan by placing cupcake wrappers into each hole. Place a chocolate sandwich cookie into each cupcake wrapper.
- In a large bowl, mix together chocolate cake mix, Greek yogurt, water, and eggs. Beat on high speed for about 2 minutes. The batter will be thick.
- Place a tablespoonful of batter into each prepared cupcake wrapper.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes. Allow to cool. I like to remove my cupcakes from the muffin pan and cool them on a cooling rack. I think that it makes the bottoms a bit soggy when you leave them in the pan to cool.
- Frost as desired.
White Chocolate Oreo Cookie Cream Cheese Frosting
Equipment
- Mixer
Ingredients
- 9 ounces white chocolate*
- 8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
- 8 ounces 1 cup or 2 sticks butter, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 10-12 double stuff chocolate sandwich cookies coarsely chopped
Instructions
- Place chocolate in a heatproof bowl and microwave at 30 second intervals, stirring between each interval until chocolate is melted. Set aside to cool for 10ish minutes.
- If using a stand mixer, fit with paddle attachment.
- In a large bowl, beat together cream cheese and butter until smooth.
- Pour in the white chocolate, and beat until smooth. Add in lemon juice and beat to combine. With a large spoon or rubber spatula, fold in the chocolate sandwich cookies until they are fairly uniformly distributed (like chocolate chips in cookie dough).
- Spread frosting on cupcakes.
Notes
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