These cupcakes will have most people drooling, and, seeing as Oreos have become so popular in recent years, I thought it made sense to include them in a cupcake. This recipe is so simple, because it’s just a basic vanilla cupcake with the addition of an Oreo cookie at the bottom, with some also mixed into buttercream icing.

What I like best about this recipe is that, even though it is simple, it looks impressive, and I know I can fall back onto it if I ever need to whip up a quick bake for any occasion. So, here is my recipe for Oreo Cupcakes!

For this, you will need:

Cupcakes:

225g of room temperature butter

225g caster sugar

225g self-raising flour (or try sponge flour – it’s AMAZING)

1tsp baking powder

4 eggs

1tsp vanilla extract

18-20 Oreo cookies (this is how many cakes this mixture should make)

Buttercream icing:

115g unsalted butter

2tbsp milk

1tsp vanilla extract

225g icing sugar

10 crushed Oreos

You start the recipe the same as any other basic sponge – whisking together the butter and sugar. When these look nice and fluffy, I whisk the eggs in one by one and then the vanilla extract. Now, it is very rare that my mixture will not curdle; I don’t know what it is that I am doing wrong, but it happens nearly every time. All I do is add a dash of the flour and whisk until it looks less curdled. This always works for me.

Next step is to fold in the flour and the baking powder. Like I’ve said before, I like to do this with a plastic spatula as I think it’s the best for folding in flour. Once your cake mixture is ready, you can get out your cupcake cases and pop them in your tray. Its best to use those ones that are slightly bigger (like muffin size) as you will need to fit an Oreo into the bottom of each one. Once every case has an Oreo in, you can fill with the mixture and put them in the oven.

I cook mine at 180c for 20 minutes, but I like to keep a close eye on them after 15 minutes, as it is my biggest hate when cakes are slightly burnt on top. When they are ready, and a skewer comes out clean, you can put them on a wire rack to cool. And while they do, you can make the amazing looking icing!

This is super simple; you just need to whisk up the butter, milk and vanilla and then sift over the icing sugar and whisk again. Whilst you are whisking that in, you can add the crushed Oreos and whisk a little more, just to really CRUSH them into the icing!!

When the cakes are cooled, you can spoon or pipe on the icing. I am terrible at piping (it’s actually one of the things I plan to improve this year) so I just spooned mine on and popped half an Oreo cookie on top (FYI its not that easy cutting an Oreo – they like to crumble).

And there you have it! Tasty and very aesthetically pleasing Oreo cupcakes. Give them a go and let me know what you think 🙂 xo