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Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes
Chocolate oreo cupcakes the kids will love
Servings: 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
Cakes
- 2 eggs
- 125 g softened butter or baking margarine
- 125 g self raising flour - or plain flour with 1 tsp of baking powder added
- 125 g white or golden sugar
- 1 heaped tbs cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch salt
- 1 - 2 tbs milk
- 14 mini oreos
Buttercream
- 75 g butter
- 250 g icing sugar
- Food colourings
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 - 2 tbs milk
Instructions
Cakes
- Add the eggs, butter, flour, sugar, cocoa & salt to a bowl and beat with a hand whisk until blended. Add the milk and briefly mix again. The batter should be loose enough to dollop off a spoon.
- Line a bun tin with fairy cake cases, placing a mini oreo in the middle of each one. Fill each case 2/3 with batter and bake at 190C / GM 5 for about 12 minutes.
Buttercream
- The secret to fluffy buttercream is to beat the butter really well before you add any sugar. I have also recently learnt the hand trick of making butter cream in the food processor to prevent the kitchen being covered in clouds of icing sugar. You can make it with a hand mixer, but will need to add the icing sugar slowly to the butter.
- Put the butter in the food processor bowl and process for a minute or so, until soft and fluffy. Pour in the icing sugar and milk, put the lid back on and cover with a damp tea towel, and process again. Scrape the sides down, add your vanilla and colouring, and more milk or icing sugar if needed and process again.
- You can make buttercream in advance and store in the fridge until needed (remove from the fridge well before you need it) I store mine in the piping bag, with a clip just behind the nozzle and the end of the bag twisted so it is airtight.
- Decorate your cakes to your hearts content, adding the popping candy just before serving.
• Please note that the nutrition information provided below is approximate and meant as a guideline only.
• Unless stated otherwise cup conversions have been made with an online tool. For accuracy please check with your favoured conversion tool. We recommend buying inexpensive digital kitchen scales.
Serving: 12cupcakes | Calories: 357kcal | Carbohydrates: 49g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 63mg | Sodium: 194mg | Potassium: 57mg | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 455IU | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 1.5mg