Chocolate Cupcakes with Oreo Frosting

It’s more of a cream than a frosting, but to me Oreo cream just sounds a bit weird. Anyway, YUM. These cupcakes use my Chocolate Cupcakes recipe that you can find here.

After that you’ll want to make the frosting. The reason I made these at all is because we were at the supermarket and I overheard Oreos were on special, so I threw a packet into the trolley.

Frosting Ingredients:

• 1 cup cream
• 1 tbsp caster sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence/extract
• 6-8 crushed Oreo biscuits

Method:

1. Put all the ingredients together except for the Oreos into a bowl and mix with an electric mixer until peaks start to form.
2. Just before the cream reaches “whipped”, tip the crushed Oreos in and mix them right through the cream. The cream should be thick enough not to fall off a spoon too easily, otherwise mix for another 30 seconds or so.  Be careful not to overmix like I did once, or your cream will be useless (I had a sadface on that night!)
3. Put into a piping bag with a nozzle (whatever method you use) or if you don’t have a piping bag, put the cream into a sandwich bag and cut the tip of one of the corners off and pipe onto the cupcakes.
4. Stick half an Oreo into the top and you’re done! Mmmmm.

Tips:

Icing cupcakes seems to be something I still need practice at – either that or I just need one of the giant star tips so there isn’t that much room for error! Anyway, here are some tips I have learnt that help when I’m actually doing it right.

• To get the swirl, pipe a spiral around the edge (or just in from the edge) and complete in the centre.
• Pipe a new spiral on top, creating a smaller circle and end in the centre. Release pressure and then pull straight up and away. Everything going well (and it takes time to get this right) you should have a pretty spiral!

If you have a piping tip, you may want to think about putting a bit of cream into the center (if you have too much like I did). That just involves you shoving the piping tip down into the centre of the cupcake and applying pressure to the bag while pulling away. The hole where you piped into will be covered up by the icing anyway. Give it a go!