Candy Cane Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes

By now you guys know that I love Oreos. Absolutely LOVE them. If you can even imagine it, I love Trader Joe’s Candy Cane Joe Joe’s even more than regular Oreos.

I learned that I can’t be trusted with a box in the house. So I limit myself to only two boxes per season. I try to share, but inevitably I end up working my way through each box. Slowly, to fully enjoy them.

Last year, I kept holding out in buying my Candy Cane Joe Joe’s. I didn’t want to blow my load too early in the season. And guess what happened? When I finally decided to go and get some. They were ALL GONE. All of them. Sold out for the season. So I completely missed my fix last year. I have been trying to use that as an excuse to double my allowed number of boxes this year…

As I was enjoying one of my first Candy Cane Joe Joe’s this year, it hit me. I love to bake with regular Oreos. Why not these little beauties? I instantly thought of my Oreo cupcakes that to this day are the most visited post on my blog, most requested cupcakes by almost everyone, and one of the all time favorites in our house.

Except, I wanted to mix things up. I wanted the cupcakes to be chocolatey. You know, since I love choco-minty things.

I basically combined my go-to chocolate cupcake recipe with the Oreo cupcakes to get this recipe. It worked like a charm.

The recipe below is written for regular Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes. I used Candy Cane Joe Joe’s in mine and subbed peppermint extract for the vanilla in the cupcakes and the frosting. And obviously, I used some crushed up candy canes on top as a garnish.

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Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes

To make these cupcakes into Candy Cane Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes, use Candy Cane Joe Joe's and substitute peppermint extract for the vanilla.

Yield: Makes 18 cupcakes

Ingredients:

For the Cupcakes
2 oz unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1/4 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, cut up
1/3 cup water
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
32 Oreo cookies
2 Tbsp flour

For the Cream Cheese Frosting
8 oz cream cheese at room temp
1 stick butter at room temp
1 Tbsp vanilla
3-4 cups powdered sugar

Directions:

For the Cupcakes
In a heatproof bowl, combine chocolate and cocoa powder.

In a saucepan over medium heat, heat the granulated sugar, butter, and water, stirring occasionally, until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves. Pour the butter mixture over the chocolate and whisk until the chocolate melts and the mixture is smooth.

Whisk the milk, egg, extra yolk, and vanilla into the chocolate mixture until combined.

In a bowl, stir the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt until blended. Add the flour mixture to the chocolate mixture and whisk until smooth.

Let the batter sit at room temperature for 1 hour or cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days.

Preheat oven to 350. Line cupcake pans to make 18 cupcakes with paper liners.

Twist apart 18 Oreos. Place the wafer with filling on it, filling side up, in the bottom of each paper liner. Cut other wafers in half. Save 18 halves to place in the frosting. Place the other halves in a small bowl with 2 Tbsp flour.

Cut the remaining Oreo cookies into quarters with a sharp knife. Add to bowl with Oreo halves and flour. Toss and set aside.

Gently stir Oreo/flour mixture into cupcake batter. Divide the batter among the muffin cups. Bake for 30 minutes or until the tops spring back when pressed lightly with a fingertip. Set on a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

For the Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream butter and cream cheese until fluffy.

Add vanilla extract. Slowly add powdered sugar until desired consistency is reached.

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13 Responses to “Chocolate M&M Cookies”

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    Katie — October 21, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    Jen, I totally love your blog. You always ahve the BEST treats! I LOVE the picture with all the cookies resting on the m&ms. GREAT idea! 🙂

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    Jigginjessica — October 21, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    Looks beautiful as always!

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    stephchows — October 21, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    perfect use of pink! So interesting about how the cookies reacted to the way you rolled them! Thanks for the heads up!

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    oneordinaryday — October 21, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    Your cookies look great and that’s a good tip about getting them to look their best too. My kids and all their friends love these cookies. I’ve made them a few times since I first posted them and they never last long.
    thanks for the link!
    ~ Michelle

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    Chocolate Shavings — October 21, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Those are beautiful and perfect for such a great cause

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    The Novice Chef — October 21, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    What an adorable picture! Also helps that they are for a great cause! 🙂

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    Natalie — October 21, 2009 at 8:10 pm

    M&Ms are my favorite treat and I love that during this month everything is PINK! The cookies look fantastic.

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    Kat — October 21, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    I am bummed I missed your Power of Pink contest as I was utilizing October to raise awareness around breast cancer too! I made some cookies and have a post on my site: http://katskitchenplace.blogspot.com/2009/10/october-is-breast-cancer-awareness.html
    I like the chocolate cookie base of your cookies! Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to checking back and seeing all what people make towards your challenge 🙂

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    tastestopping — October 21, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    A chocolate cookie topped with chocolate candies? What could be better? Perhaps a tall, ice cold glass of milk to go with them! They look divine. I’m wondering if you might skip the rolling and flattening by creating a wide log of dough (without M&Ms), slicing to the thickness desired, then pressing candies on top? Seems like the dough might be fairly easy to shape into a log. A quick pop into the fridge before slicing would help firm it up. Just a thought! I can’t wait to try them.

    Best,
    Casey
    http://www.tastestopping.wordpress.com

    P.S. Not sure if I’ve invited you before, but I’d love to publish any of your photos that FoodGawker and TasteSpotting decline! Thanks. 😀

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    nutmegnanny — October 23, 2009 at 3:15 am

    I love the dark chocolate and pink M&M contrast. What fantastic cookies:)

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    natalie — February 25, 2010 at 8:31 pm

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    natalie — February 25, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    I just made your recipe for these cookies yesterday and took them to church. The kids went nuts and they’ve never turned out as pretty as they did this time. Thanks for the helpful tips because my m&m cookies have never turned out prettier! 9 minutes was also perfect timing as well.

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    Rachel @ Baked by Rachel — December 19, 2010 at 8:19 pm

    Both pretty and I’m sure delicious! I love how you showed the comparison between batches to give better suggestions for prettier cookies. The final batch are definitely the prettiest of the bunch. I love that the pink pops w/the chocolate cookie.

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