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Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

These Cookies and Cream Cupcakes are a moist chocolate cupcake filled with Oreo cookies and topped with an Oreo buttercream frosting.
Course Dessert
Keyword cake, cake mix, chocolate, cookies, cookies and cream, cupcakes, oreo
Servings 24 Cupcakes
Author Jesseca

Ingredients

For the cupcakes:

  • 1 (15 oz) Box devils food cake mix
  • 1 (5.9 oz) box chocolate pudding
  • 4 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup oil
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • cups crushed Oreo cookies (12-15 cookies)

For the frosting:

  • 2 cups unsalted butter softened
  • 6 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 2 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream
  • cups crushed Oreo cookies

Instructions

For the cupcakes:

  • Line 2- 12 cup muffin tins with paper liners. Preheat the oven to 350. 
  • Stir together the dry cake mix with the dry pudding mix in the bowl of an electric mixer. Stir in the eggs, oil, water, and sour cream. Fold in the 1-1/2 cups of crushed Oreo cookies.
  • Fill your cupcake liners 2/3 full with batter. Bake 12-15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. 
  • Cook completely.

For the frosting:

  • Place the softened butter in the bowl of an electric mixer. Add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time keeping your mixer on low speed. 
  • Stir in the vanilla and heavy cream. 
  • Beat 2 minutes or until fluffy. 
  • Fold in the crushed cookies and pipe onto your cupcakes.