Oreo Cupcakes Recipe | Cookies And Cream

4 from 56 votes
A chocolate cupcake topped with cookies and cream frosting, garnished with half of a chocolate sandwich cookie, sits on a white plate. Other similar cupcakes are slightly blurred in the background, displayed on a light-colored surface.

If you are an Oreo fan, you will LOVE these cupcakes! Fluffy chocolate cupcakes with Oreo surprise at the bottom and cookies and cream frosting at the top. These cupcakes are especially loved by children but also by adults. Make them for birthdays, parties or holidays and your family will thank you forever.

A chocolate cupcake topped with cookies and cream frosting, garnished with half of a chocolate sandwich cookie, sits on a white plate. Other similar cupcakes are slightly blurred in the background, displayed on a light-colored surface.

Oreo Cupcakes Recipe | Cookies And Cream

4 from 56 votes
Prep Time 1 hour
WORK TIME 30 minutes
DIFFICULTY Medium
Cuisine American
Servings 12 yields

Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup 125g All-purpose flour
  • â…“ cup 40g Cocoa powder
  • ¼ teaspoon Salt
  • ½ teaspoon Baking soda
  • 1 Egg large
  • ¾ cup + 2 tablespoons 175g Sugar
  • ½ cup 120ml Buttermilk
  • â…“ cup 80ml Vegetable oil
  • ½ cup 120ml Water/coffee
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
  • 12 Oreo cookies

For the Oreo butter cream:

  • ½ cup 115g Butter, softened
  • 1½ cups 190g Icing sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
  • 4 Oreo cookies crushed
  • 2-3 tablespoons Milk/heavy cream

For decorating:

  • Oreo cookies/mini oreos

Instructions
 

  • DIRECTIONS
    1. Make the cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners. Place one Oreo cookie at the bottom of each cupcake liner. Set aside.
    2. In a large bowl sift flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Add sugar, stir and set aside.
    3. In a separate bowl whisk all wet ingredients except coffee/water.
    4. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and whisk just until combined. don’t overmix.
    5. Scoop the batter into cupcake liners. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool completely.
    6. Make the buttercream: in a large bowl, beat butter until light and fluffy, about 4-5 minutes. Beat in powdered sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, beating in between. Add vanilla extract, milk and beat until incorporated. Add crushed Oreos and fold until combined. Transfer to a piping bag.
    7. frost as desired.
    8. Decorate the cupcakes: top the cupcake with a mini Oreo, whole Oreo cookie or halved Oreo cookie.

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Nutrition information is automatically generated and thus we can not guarantee it is 100% accurate.

7 Comments

  1. Kallie Green says:

    only bake this this recipe if you want the most disgusting cupcakes you’ll ever eat. extremely gross and basically a waste of resources

    October 2, 2022
  2. Amazing! I made 2 dozen for a bake sale a couple weeks ago, I had great feedback! I’m now making 6 dozen for this weeks sale and a dozen for a co-workers Birthday!

    November 30, 2022
  3. These cupcakes were delicious and so easy to make. THANK YOU GREAT RECIPE!!! *****

    February 23, 2023
    1. The Cooking Foodie says:

      Glad you liked it 🙂

      February 23, 2023
  4. What’s the water/coffee for if we never use it?

    March 4, 2023
    1. neerja patel says:

      to make a little more liquidly so the cake becomes more soft

      June 2, 2024
  5. Boooomm d’amour

    December 27, 2023
4 from 56 votes (56 ratings without comment)

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