Oreo Chocolate Cupcakes

Heeeey!
Today we’re making Cupcakes. They’re not any regular cupcakes, they’re Oreo Cupcakes! Well, basically, they’re chocolate cupcakes topped with Oreo flavored cream cheese. Anyway, they’re so delicious and chocolaty yet simple to make. So let’s get cooking!

You’ll need:

  - For the cupcakes:
(It would make about 24 cupcakes)

• 180ml Milk
• 150g Chocolate
• 150g Butter
• 200g Sugar
• 3 Eggs
• 350g Flour
• 50g Cocoa Powder
• 10g Baking Powder
• ¼ tsp Baking Soda
• ¼ tsp Salt
• Some cookies crushed into chunks (optional) 

  - For the cream cheese frosting:

• 2 packs of Chantilly cream (dream whip kind)
• 180ml cold milk (I reduced the amount of milk mentioned on the pack) 
• 240g cream cheese
• 1 tbsp powdered sugar
• 8 cookies finely crushed 

Let’s start:

 The Cupcakes:

1. Preheat your oven on 180°C and put the cupcake liners on a baking tray.
2. Chop the chocolate and put it in a bowl, heat the milk and bring it almost to a boil, then pour it on the chocolate. Let it sit for about a minute and then stir it until all the chocolate is melted.
3. In a bowl, sift together the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt, and whisk to combine.
4. In a bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the butter and sugar on until it gets light and creamy and then add the eggs one at a time mixing well in between each.
5. Gradually add the dry ingredients alternating with the chocolate and don’t forget to scrap the sides of the bowl so everything is nicely incorporated.
6. Fill the cupcake liners with batter to the half and you can put some cookies chunks inside if you want. Then bake them for about 15min until when a toothpick is inserted into the centre of the cupcake, it comes out dry.
7. Let them cool completely before frosting them.

The frosting:

1. Whip the Chantilly cream on high speed until it gets firm and fluffy.
2. In another bowl, add the sugar to the cream cheese, and beat it until smooth.
3. Gently mix both of the creams together, then stir in the cookies crumbs and mix until it’s nicely incorporated (you can add a bit more sugar if you think it’s not sweet enough).

((Let your frosting chill in the fridge until you’re ready to use it))

    

The decoration:

• Fill a pastry bag, fitted with a star nozzle, with the cream cheese and pipe it on the cupcakes. You can add some cookies crumbs on the top or put a cookie on the top of each cupcake or even both. 

Thank you for stopping by and I really hope you'll give this recipe a try!

Bon Appétit