Cookies & Cream

June 12th, 2010

Jill's Birthday!

My next adventure in cupcake recipes was cookies & cream.  I used a this recipe from Annie's Eats.  Sadly my camera was stolen so I only have pictures from my cell phone.  But, I'll definitely be trying this one again because it's so good!  First tip: oreo cookies are not easy to cut up.  This wasn't a big problem for the ones that go into the batter, since the quarters were all different sizes.  But it was tricky trying to get enough nice looking halves to put on the tops of the cupcakes.  The best thing to do is cut them all in the beginning and use the not-so-pretty ones to grind up in the icing.  

Since the icing for this recipe was cream cheese I used her other recipe for oreo whipped cream frosting.  It was delicious, but I was nervous the whole time that it would melt.  I was going to try out another recipe, but everyone loved it so much that I'm going to see if I can keep it.  I'm going to try adding more powdered sugar and hope that makes it a little stiffer.  

Seriously though.  These are tasty.