Owl Cupcakes with Oreos
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5.0
3 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
30 mins
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Cook Time
30 mins
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Total Time
50 mins
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Servings
12
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Calories
607 kcal
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Course
Baked Goods
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Cuisine
American
Owl Cupcakes with Oreos
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Cute owl cupcakes with Oreo eyes, these are actually delicious chocolate cupcakes with a rich buttercream frosting.
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Ingredients
Chocolate cupcakes or muffins:
- 200 g/ 7 oz/ 1 ⅔ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 30 g/ 1 oz/ ¼ cup + 1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 100 g/ 3.5 oz/ ½ cup chopped semisweet chocolate or chocolate chips
- 1 egg medium Germany, large US
- 80 g/ 2.8 oz/ scant ½ cup brown sugar
- 80 ml/ 2.7 fl.oz/ ⅓ cup vegetable oil for instance canola oil
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 250 ml/ 8 fl.oz/ 1 cup buttermilk
Buttercream frosting:
- 250 g/ 8.8 oz/ 1 cup unsalted butter
- 250 g/ 8.8 oz/ 2 ½ cups icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract or a few drops of vanilla extract See note 1
- Decoration:
- Oreo cookies or something similar See note 2
- 36 M&M's or large Smarties
Instructions
Chocolate cupcakes:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius/ 360 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a 12 muffin tin with paper cases.
- Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder and unsweetened cocoa powder in a bowl. Chop the semisweet chocolate into small pieces about the size of chocolate chips or use semisweet chocolate chips. Add them to the flour mixture and stir to mix. Set aside.
- In another bowl whisk together the egg and the sugar. Add the oil, vanilla extract, and buttermilk. Whisk very well.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and whisk carefully until the dry ingredients are moist. Do not over mix, it is OK if there are still some small lumps in the batter.
- Place the batter to the muffin tin. Bake for 20 minutes. Leave to rest in the tin for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Buttercream frosting:
- Make sure the butter has room temperature before you start. Place the butter in a bowl and mix until light and fluffy, at least 2 minutes.
- Slowly and gradually add the icing sugar. Add the vanilla extract or aroma and continue beating until the buttercream is nice and fluffy. Transfer the buttercream to a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle.
Decoration:
- When the cupcakes are completely cool, pipe the buttercream on top.
- Twist the Oreo cookies to open them up and place two halves that still have enough of their own white frosting attached to them on the buttercream frosting to form the eyes.
- Snap another cookie half in two to form the “eyebrows” of the owls and stick them into the buttercream as well. You can use some of the halves that don't have that much of their own frosting left on for this step.
- Use M&M's or large Smarties to form the eyes. If the eyes don't stick to the Oreo frosting very well, smear them with a tiny amount of buttercream (rests from the mixing bowl) on the underside and then stick them onto the cookies.
- Form the beak of the owl with another M&M or Smarties.
Notes
- To make a chocolate buttercream frosting add 1-2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder to the buttercream. Mix well and add ½ – 1 tablespoon milk to loosen the buttercream and give it the right consistency for piping.
- You will need 18 cookies to make the 12 owl cupcakes, however the Oreos break quite easily when you try to split them in two. Also sometimes their own frosting will only hold on one half of the cookie and you need that both eyes still have frosting on them. Make sure you buy enough Oreos in case that happens.
Nutrition Information
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Serving
1g
Calories
607kcal
(30%)
Carbohydrates
83g
(28%)
Protein
4g
(8%)
Fat
30g
(46%)
Saturated Fat
14g
(70%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
12g
Cholesterol
61mg
(20%)
Sodium
242mg
(10%)
Fiber
2g
(8%)
Sugar
54g
(108%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 12Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 607 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1g | |
| Calories | 607kcal | 30% |
| Carbohydrates | 83g | 28% |
| Protein | 4g | 8% |
| Fat | 30g | 46% |
| Saturated Fat | 14g | 70% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 12g | 71% |
| Cholesterol | 61mg | 20% |
| Sodium | 242mg | 10% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 54g | 108% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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