Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes

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Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes

by Nayna Kanabar April-21-2015

Delicious light cupcakes with a chocolate oreo center and chocolate and vanilla butter cream.

Ingredients:

• 120g / 4 oz Self Raising flour
• 1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• 120g / 4 oz Softened Butter
• 120g / 4 oz Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 10 Large Oreo biscuits
For Butter Cream:
• 300g /10oz Icing sugar
• 120g / 4 oz Softened Butter
• 1 tablespoon Cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
• 10 Mini Oreo biscuits

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C / 350 degrees F2. Cream together the butter and sugar, and add the eggs and beat together. 3. Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powder and fold the flour into the creamed butter and sugar mixture.4. Line a muffin tray with cake liners. Add a tablespoon of cake batter in each cake liner. Add one large oreo on top of the batter and spoon a a second tablespoonful of batter on top of the oreo. The cake liner should be 2/3 full with the batter5. Bake the cupcakes in a preheated oven for 15-17 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the cake center.6. Remove the cakes from the oven and leave them to cool on a wire rack.7. In a stand mixture, cream together the butter, icing sugar and vanilla essence until light and fluffy.8. Take out half the vanilla butter cream into a bowl and keep it aside. To the remaining butter cream in the mixer sieve in the 1 tablespoon of cocoa and beat together to make chocolate butter cream.9. To ice the cakes get a dual icing bag and fit it with a star nozzle. On one side add the vanilla butter cream and on the other side the chocolate butter cream. 10. Pipe a swirl of the butter cream icing on top of the cup cakes and decorate with one mini oreo on top of each cake.

Details:

Prep time: 30 mins Cook time: 17 mins Total time: 47 mins Yield: 10

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