Kendall's Goody Gumdrops: Oreo Cupcakes

OMG! I love these babies! Well I guess there not babies, so I guess I'll just call them yummy, tasty, fantastic, awesome, delicous cupcakes! My favorite cookie + my favorite dessert = Yes please! Oreos are way better when, of course, they're baked in a cupcake! Oreos are my go to cookie for when I need a quick nut free treat at school or for a party, etc

Today I was baking with my friend Arianna, my sister and of our moms. It was a little crowded but fun! So on to the awesome awesome awesome and yummy recipe!

Here's the recipe from Bakeaholic:

Oreo Cupcakes

Oreo Cupcakes

Ingredients

24 Oreo halves, with cream filling attached

2¼ cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. salt

8 tbsp. unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 2/3 cup sugar

3 large egg whites, at room temperature

2 tsp. vanilla extract1 cup milk

20 Oreo cookies, coarsely chopped

Frosting

8 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature

6 tbsp. unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 tbsp. vanilla extract

4 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted

2 tbsp. heavy cream

Oreo cookie crumbs

24 Oreo cookie halves

And of course our ingredients. The only thing we changed was we used Half and Half instead of heavy cream. many Oreos do not have a "may contains" peanut or tree-nut but be careful because some do like Cakesters.

First we preheated the oven and put the paper liners in the cupcake pans. Then we carefully separated the Oreos and place them in the cupcake liner cream side up. Save the other side for the end to put on top of the cupcake for decoration. Some of them may break, but you can put those in your crushed Oreo pile.

Next grab a medium sized bowl and combine the flour, baking soda and salt. You can use a fork to mix the ingredients. Set this aside for later.

In a separate bowl combine butter and sugar. Use an electric mixer on medium to high speed until the mixture is fluffy. It should take about 2 minutes.

Then add the egg whites one at a time to the mixture. After add vanilla extract.

Slowly add the dry mixture into the butter mixture. Use the mixer on a low speed to combine thourougly mixed.

Next chop or lightly crush the Oreos. We put ours in a plastic bag and pound lightly with the rolling pin.

Fold in the crushed Oreo's. This is what our mixture looked like!

We then filled the cupcake liners about 2/3 full. Then into the oven they went!

Bake for 18-20 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.

At this point, you can start the frosting or take a 18-20 minute break and make rainbow loom bracelets like we did.

Ding ding ding!!! Breaks over....time to make the frosting.

First we combined the cream cheese and butter in a new bowl. We used the mixer on medium-high until it was smooth. Will take approximately 1 minute. Then add the vanilla extract and mix. Next mix in powdered sugar until smooth about 1-2 minutes. Finally, add the heavy cream and mix on medium-low speed to mix it up. Then we increased speed to medium-high for 4 minutes until it was light and fluffy.