My favourite chocolate is Hershey’s cookies and cream white chocolate, and despite the bits of extremely conspicuous cookie left in my teeth, I would die for Oreos (almost). I’ve never actually understood why people call things “cookies and cream” when they’re simply made of Oreos. But the name doesn’t matter when it tastes so good.
Now these are too easy to make and so I was surprised to think I’d never done anything with Oreos (except for these). The key is the icing and real oreo pieces - the cake is not the star of the show and can be chocolate or vanilla.
Whatever - read, make, and eat these. You won’t regret it.
Oreo/Cookies & Cream Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 200g butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 cup plain flour
- 2 eggs
- 24 Oreos
At the bottom of each cupcake cup, place one oreo. I would have liked the paper cups to be thin paper but everywhere was out of stock. With thin ones you can see the oreo at the bottom; it makes the whole thing prettier and the oreo less of a surprise!
To make the brownie mix, melt the butter and cocoa together gently in a pan (but don’t boil it). Add the sugar and vanilla, stirring till it’s all well mixed. Take it off the heat and add the flour (sifted), then add the eggs and whisk until incorporated. That’s it!
I filled the cups 3/4 full with the brownie mixture, chosen because it would give for a lovely chewy texture against the crunchy oreos! If you prefer, the oreos can also be broken in to several pieces and mixed into the brownie mix.
These were baked for about 15 mins in my oven (hotter than the average oven), or until a toothpick comes out relatively clean from the centre (you want it to stay chewy).
While they cool completely, get on with the icing….the icing…
- 1 lb confectioner’s (powdered/icing) sugar
- 200g/8oz butter, softened
- 3 tblsp milk
- For icing, one pack of Oreos (about a dozen cookies)
- For decoration, mini Oreos/one pack of Oreos.
Once it’s a smooth and stiff-peak consistency (don’t add too much milk at once), crush the oreos in a ziplock bag and fold into the icing.
Once the cupcakes are completely cooled, pipe on the oreo icing. Note: a few of the oreo bits in the icing were too big to pipe through so I couldn’t use a shaped piping tip and, hence, the result was “oreo turds”.
Top with oreo halves/quarters, or even better (though I forgot to buy them), mini oreos.
Et voilà!
Pace yourself, they will smell heavenly, taste decadent, and every bite will have oreo in it!
