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I don’t know about you, but Oreo cookies rank high on my list of fattening sweet treats. There is something about the crisp chocolate cookie sandwiched together with a yummy vanilla cream that makes me drool a little! In fact, I find it hard to even have them in the house. I truly love them, and the Golden variety too!
Back in November I made a chocolate bundt cake that was to die for (it is now my go to recipe for chocolate cake) – it is easy, moist and oh so chocolaty. I decided to pair this amazing cake with the Buttercream Dream frosting that I use on everything, except this time I would add in some crushed Oreo crumbs and top the cupcake with half an Oreo.
I figured this combination of sinful ingredients would make something yummy, but in my opinion these turned out amazing! Even though pictures are craptastic! If you have never tried this recipe for chocolate cake, please take my word for it or head over to allrecipes and peruse over a thousand positive reviews!
Oreo Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
- 1 package devil's food cake mix
- 1 5.9 ounce package instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- ½ cup warm water
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips I used miniature
For the Buttercream
- 1 stick salted butter - room temperature
- 1 stick unsalted butter - room temperature
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 tablespoon Clear Vanilla extract
- 2 pounds confectioner's sugar powdered sugar, 10x
- 4-6 tablespoons very cold milk I used 5 TBS
- 8 crushed Oreo cookies with the cream removed before crushing
Instructions
For the Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray muffin tins with nonstick cooking spray or line with paper liners.
- In a large bowl, mix together the cake and pudding mixes, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs and water.
- Stir in the chocolate chips and pour batter into prepared muffin wells.
- Bake for 18-22 minutes, or until top is springy to the touch and a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Cool cupcakes thoroughly in pan at least an hour and a half before removing.
For the Buttercream
- Cream the butter and shortening in the bowl of an electric or stand mixer.
- Add the clear vanilla extract and combine well. Begin adding in the sugar and mixing thoroughly after each addition.
- After all of the sugar has been added and mixed thoroughly, begin adding the very cold milk, one tablespoon at a time, combining very well after each addition (mixer on medium-high to high speed) until you reach the desired consistency.
- Fold in the Oreo cookie crumbs.
- Top cooled cupcakes with the buttercream frosting and garnish with 1/2 an Oreo.
These were a huge hit at my get together! I was asked to make these again! I however folded approximately 12 crushed oreos into the buttercream.I also inserted melted marshmallow into the middle of the chocolate cupcake, sooooo delicious
hi, we dont have instant pudding mix here in Trinidad… can I use chocolate pudding snack cups? or another substitute? or just leave it out?
so i want to use the recipe you have for the cupcake base but i want to use a yellow cake box mix instead can i still use the same mesuerments you used with the devils food or will i have to adjust because its yellow?
Alie-
I have used a yellow cake mix with vanilla pudding and the recipe turned out just fine. Thanks.
-Jamie
I just pulled the 1st pan of the cupcakes from the oven…making them for my hub’s work..let’s just say that I’ll have The Best Wife EVER award for quite awhile! Just plain and warm, they were so good that I almost cried ;) Thanks for sharing!
I’m trying to make a variation of this with the golden oreo cookies, which cake recipe would you recommend to go along with it? vanilla bean?
I think I just found my favorite baking blog!! All your recipes look amazingly delicious, I can’t wait to try them!! ;)
thank you for 3 out of my 4 cupcakes(so far) i have used your recipes and every has loved them soo thank you for coming up these amazing recipes. im making these oreo cupcakes this weekend. thanks again
HEAVEN!
I just made these over the weekend for an office birthday party. They disappeared!! They are delicious!!!!
How did you pipe the frosting? It looks so pretty and i want to try doing it too.
Esha
Check out my Piping How-To Video in this post – hopefully it helps you! Thanks for stopping by.
-Jamie
can’t wait to make these. they look absolutely delicious!!! plus oreos are my favorite cookie(: