Oreo Sunflower Cupcakes Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Line 33 muffin cups with paper liners, then place one Oreo in the bottom of each. Set aside.
• In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
• Place remaining full size Oreos in a ziplock bag and smash them, or drop them in the food processor or blender to make large crumbs and small chunks. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl cream together butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Add the eggs to butter/sugar one at a time, beating after each addition, followed by adding the vanilla.
• Alternate adding the flour mixture with adding milk (2-3 additions for each) until the batter is all combined. Beat until smooth and fluffy. Add reserved crumbled Oreos.
• Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups. I use a cookie scoop to get this done evenly. Smooth them out a bit. It won't rise very much, and the batter won't settle smooth totally on its own.
• Bake at 350 for about 18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool completely on a wire rack.
• Frosting:
• Beat 2 cups softened butter with the whisk attachment until smooth and fluffy.
• Slowly add powdered sugar a scoop at a time until it's all incorporated.
• Add milk and vanilla. Whip until light, fluffy and fully combined.
• To Decorate:
• Divide frosting into 3 portions, 2 larger than the third (think peace sign proportions). Tint one large portion grassy green with gel food coloring, one large portion medium yellow, and the smaller portion darker green. I used about 1/4 tsp color for each.
• Fit a 16 inch piping bag with a large coupler and tip 233. Fill with grassy green colored frosting. Pipe little dabs over entire tops of cupcakes to resemble grass, a quick squeeze/let go gives tapered bits.
• Place one mini Oreo in the center of each cupcake to be the sunflower's center. Press down into the "grass" to adhere.
• Fit a regular coupler and a leaf tip such as 368 on a 12 inch piping bag. Fill with darker green frosting. To pipe leaves, place the bag at about a 45 degree angle close to the mini Oreo center. The V cutout should face the Oreo vertically, like a bird's beak getting ready to take a nibble. Squeeze, pull away and release pressure to create a leaf. Add 3 or so to each cupcake around the Oreo.
• Fit a large coupler and leaf tip on a 16 inch piping bag. Fill with the yellow frosting. To pipe the sunflower's petals use the same motion as for leaves, only make them smaller. Circle each Oreo completely in petals, then add a smaller second row of petals on top of that one.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners., In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Fold in crushed cookies., Fill prepared cups three-fourths full. Bake 20-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. , In a large bowl, combine butter, confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla; beat until smooth. Fold in cookie crumbs. Pipe or spread frosting over cupcakes. If desired, sprinkle with additional cookie crumbs and garnish with mini Oreo cookies.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F and line 24 muffin cups with baking cups.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
• In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and the butter until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla extract, then beat in the egg whites one at a time, making sure each is fully incorporated before adding the next.
• Working in 4 or 5 additions, alternately add the flour mixture and the milk to the sugar mixture. Keep the mixer on low speed while you do this. When just combined, stir in the crushed Oreos.
• Spoon batter evenly into muffin tins, filling each about 2/3 full.
• Bake for 15-18 minutes at 350°F, until a toothpick comes out clean (a few chocolate cookie crumbs are fine, but not batter).
• Cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.
• Store in an airtight container if not serving the same day.
• Note: If you only have a 12-cup muffin tin, the batter will not suffer from sitting around for a few minutes while the first batch bakes. Just be sure to let the pan cool completely before filling it up again.
• Variation: To make plain vanilla cupcakes, simply omit the Oreos. You might end up with only about 18 cupcakes, but as long as you fill the tins about 2/3 full, the baking time will be the same.
• Quick Vanilla Buttercream Frosting:.
• Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and beat, with an electric mixer, until frosting is creamy, 3-5 minutes.
• Frost cupcakes with frosting using a butter knife or offset spatula. Add as much or as little frosting as desired. If making Oreo cupcakes, garnish with additional chunks of Oreo.