Oreo Cupcakes

It's been awhile since our last bakeoff...and, we're back! Made Oreo Cupcakes this time round.






Crushing the oreo cookies was fun, and the cake batter kinda reminded me of cookies and cream ice-cream or something. The cupcakes themselves were sweet and moist. And the outside had a good crisp. They tasted like normal vanilla cupcakes though, the oreo flavour was not very obvious. And since the oreo crumbs were quite small (got a little carried away with the crushing), they were not really noticeable, texture-wise. If we had bigger cookie chunks, the difference in textures (between the cookie and the cake itself) would have been nice! Extra punch! :p

Here's the recipe for the cupcake itself:

Oreo Cupcakes
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 egg whites, room temperature
3/4 cup milk
1 1/4 cups crushed oreo cookies (10 cookies)

Preheat the oven to 350F. Line 24 muffin cups with baking cups.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and the butter until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla extract, then beat in the egg whites one at a time, making sure each is fully incorporated before adding the next.
Working in 4 or 5 additions, alternately add the flour mixture and the milk to the sugar mixture. Keep the mixer on low speed while you do this. When just combined, stir in the crushed oreos.
Spoon batter evenly into muffin tins, filling each about 2/3 full.
Bake for 15-18 minutes at 350F, until a toothpick comes out clean (a few chocolate cookie crumbs are fine, but not batter).
Cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.
Store in an airtight container if not serving the same day.

Makes 24 cupcakes

The frosting was really watery and yellow at the time we took the photo. It kept overflowing...off the sides of the cupcake onto the table, so we had to scrape the frosting back up onto the pile in order to save the cakes. Maybe we beat the frosting a bit too much?


Recipe for the frosting:

Quick Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
1 stick butter, room temperature
4 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and beat, with an electric mixer, until frosting is creamy, 3-5 minutes.

Frost cupcakes with frosting using a butter knife or offset spatula. Add as much or as little frosting as desired. If making oreo cupcakes, garnish with additional chunks of Oreo.

According to Bakingbites.com, this was how our cupcakes were supposed to look like. I blame the cheena cupcake cups. And maybe, the Golden Apple tshirt.

Is it just me, or is this post really boring.

I'm not feeling funny today :(