cookies & cupcakes & desserts 01 Jun 2008 06:51 pm
Cookies ‘n’ Cream cupcakes
From the cookbook Crazy About Cupcakes
ingredients:
1 stick butter, softened
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2-1/4 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-2/3 cups granulated sugar
3 large egg whites
1 cup lightly crushed Oreos
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and line a baking pan with cupcake liners.
in a large bowl, cream together the butter, milk and vanilla, about 3-5 minutes. (See – isn’t that weird? Usually it’s the butter and sugar – but this is all backasswards.)
In a separate bowl mix together flour, baking powder and salt.
Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture. Mix until integrated. Stir in the sugar. With an electric mixer on low, beat for 30 seconds. Turn the mixer up to medium and beat for 2 minutes.
Add the egg whites, Beat for 2 more minutes. Stir in the crushed cookies. I like to do this by hand, you won’t believe how creamy this looks, just like melted ice cream.
Fill the cupcake liners 3/4 full. I can fill about 18 cupcakes. Bake for 20 minutes. When you insert a toothpick, the tops will look wet, but the toothpick should still come out clean. I like to leave them in the pan to cool, then transfer to a rack.
These will taste great with a variety of frostings, but I went with the old skool chocolate sour cream frosting. It was a great consistency with the light cake. I also added little fondant Bullys that I made, and on the others I rolled the sides in cow sprinkles. MOOOO.
on 01 Jun 2008 at 6:52 pm 1.fondant Bullys | justJENN recipes said …
[...] the Little Stuffed Bull is a friend of mine. So I made him some cookies ‘n’ cream cupcakes, with chocolate sour cream frosting and…his own [...]
on 12 Jun 2008 at 5:03 pm 2.Multi-Tasking Mommy said …
Ok, so I made these AMAZING cupcakes for my hubby’s birthday tomorrow and I do have a question for you.
What size electric mixer do you have? I did the weird butter/milk mixture and it sprayed all over my counter. The butter didn’t blend into the milk at all, rather it stuck to the paddle–what on earth did I do wrong?
The surprising part was how amazingly fluffy they turned out regardless! Thanks so much for the recipe.
on 12 Jun 2008 at 7:24 pm 3.justJENN said …
I have a standard (small, if you ask me) size Kitchenaid. You didn’t do anything wrong. The recipe is jacked up, its backasswardsness is crazy. However, I just turned the mixer on low and stopped it every few seconds (annoying) and scraped down the bowl. Continually. It was a pain, but in the end the payoff is the most wonderful fluffy cupcakes ever.
on 17 Jun 2008 at 4:54 pm 4.melanie said …
I can’t wait to make these!! Oreos are my favorite cookie and I can easily eat a whole package. Came close once…
on 17 Jun 2008 at 4:54 pm 5.melanie said …
oh…duh…i was trying to think of who had a birthday coming up so I can wow the crowd. yeah, that would be me…this weekend!
on 26 Jul 2008 at 9:13 pm 6.jami said …
I made these, and they were very yummy. I don’t think I took you seriously enough when you said the recipe was WEIRD. And since I currently am standmixer-less, I used my handmixer. Let’s just talk about the milk/butter/vanilla splatter – oy. I kind of gave up on that part and just mixed in the flour, but it seems to have worked just fine.
on 27 Jul 2008 at 1:45 pm 7.Stephanie said …
Jenn,
I just made these today and had a small problem. When I took them out of the oven, they had exploded and collapsed at the same time, if you get what I mean. What in the world did I do wrong? Of course, I salvaged them. They were still good!
on 28 Jul 2008 at 9:59 pm 8.justJENN said …
Stephanie:
What.
That’s odd. Where do you live? Weather of your location, makes a difference sometimes. Hm. Overbeating? Overfilling? I have no idea! Email me and we can figure it out.