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.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
Yum that looks delicious and welcome back to my hometown! Cincinnati’s actually a great town that grows on you and has been evolving quite a bit in the time that you’ve been away. I suspect given your profession and work location history that we probably work for the same company as our day jobs ;).
beantownbaker — January 23rd, 2013 @ 8:30 am
Yes, Cincinnati has changed a LOT since we moved away in 2007.
I would suspect you’re right. There’s enough info to know where I work, especially if you work here too 😉 Going to go check out your blog now. I would love to meet some other Cincinnati area bloggers!
beantownbaker — January 23rd, 2013 @ 8:31 am
Ok I work for the *other* big company in town (just checked your About page).
Isn’t the KA ice cream attachment the best thing ever? I am always making ice cream, even in the wintertime, but I never thought of using canned coconut milk as the base. I’ll have to try this out soon!
beantownbaker — January 23rd, 2013 @ 11:37 am
Absolutely. I didn’t think I could love my KAM any more than I already did. The ice cream attachment proved that I can.
I have lots of cans of coconut milk laying around and I know they make a good ice cream! Adding this one to my list 🙂
I bought myself KA ice creamer maker for my birthday this summer and I adore it! I’ve been thinking about making non-dairy ice creams, but the recipes all sounded strange. It’s great to see a recipe from a trusted source. Can’t wait to try.
beantownbaker — January 23rd, 2013 @ 10:28 pm
Let me know what you think if you try it. I am going to be experimenting with different milks since I can’t have cow’s milk…
love coconut milk based ice creams!! this one looks fabulous, and good call throwing in those oreos 😉
beantownbaker — January 24th, 2013 @ 12:05 pm
It’s ALWAYS a good idea to throw oreos in 🙂
My brother’s favorite thing to get at Coldstone is chocolate oreo ice cream. Too bad I don’t have an ice cream maker, or I would definitely try this!
beantownbaker — January 29th, 2013 @ 7:51 am
I’ve been told you can make ice cream without an ice cream maker. I never tried it before I got mine though…
I just made your recipe and luckily I tasted it before I cooled it. The ratio of sugar to cocoa powder is off. You should use at least twice the amount of sugar to cocoa powder in order for it not to have a horribly bitter taste. After adding more sugar it had a nice sweet to chocolately balance. Thanks for the recipe, my daughter is lactose intolerant and she will enjoy it.
beantownbaker — January 31st, 2013 @ 2:03 pm
I am glad you were able to adjust this recipe to suit your needs. Hubby and I both enjoyed the sweetness level of this recipe. I’m sure different cocoa powders have different levels of sweetness. I plan to try this recipe without the cocoa powder to make vanilla ice cream too. We loved the creaminess of it!
This look yummy and chocolate ice cream is one of my favorite. Thanks for sharing the directions and ingredients.
I just opened a can of coconut milk and it looked extremely curdled. I shook it a lot but it was still completely curdled. Is that how coconut milk is supposed to be out of the can? Are there any brands that you specifically like to use?
beantownbaker — April 24th, 2013 @ 1:44 pm
Hm. It doesn’t usually look curdled, more just separated. Did you try shaking it up? I use Native Forest since that’s what they sell in my grocery store. It looks like this: http://www.amazon.com/Native-Forest-Organic-Classic-13-5-Ounce/dp/B001HTJ2BQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366829034&sr=8-1&keywords=coconut+milk
Oh how I wish I could try this.. I am currently gluten and dairy free.. However this being dairy free is is not gluten free with the oreo’s… Bummer!!
beantownbaker — October 23rd, 2013 @ 12:28 am
I’ve made this recipe again without the Oreos and it’s really good. Not quite as good as with the Oreos, but if you wanted to make it gluten free, just leave them out.
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