OREO Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

I love OREO cookies and I sure do love cupcakes and if you put the two together… it’s just a sweet love fest!

All these ingredients I had in my stockpile and they were either heavily discounted or free. If you are not used to my shopping habits, let me give you a few tips how I made these uber cheap!

• Cake mix for the cupcakes were free by price matching at Walmart and used a coupon
• Cream cheese was on sale for $1.99 and I had a $.50 coupon (Read my article here on How to Freeze Cream Cheese when you find one of those killer deals.)
• OREO cookies were price matched at Walmart and I used coupons to create a stockpile (which I hid from my son)

Now pay attention to this recipe because it’s very complex. It uses a boxed cake mix and premade cookies. The only thing you need to make is your own cream cheese icing if you don’t want to use store-bought. (Okay, not complex!)

First, after you whip up the boxed cake mix according to the directions, you must lick the beater bars! Sorry, raw egg… I know but I can’t help it. And, after 20+ years of doing it I have yet to be sick from it.

Now the hard part, which is filling each cupcake cup with an OREO. Sounds easy right? WRONG! I ate 1/2 stack before I filled 1/2 the tin!

Okay – joking aside – drop an OREO cookie in the bottom of each cupcake cup and then cover with the cake batter. Note that the cookie will give it the cupcake a little lift so don’t overfill the cups. For the icing, gauge the amount of cookies to your taste and warning,  few cookies add a lot of flavor to the icing.

This is a fun project for a little one to help with splitting the cookie dropping and dough filling between the two of you.

Now, who is ready for some OREO Cookies and Cream Cupcakes?

OREO Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

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Incredibly easy to make OREO Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Additional Time 10 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 box chocolate cake mix, prepared according to instructions
• OREO Cookies
• Cream Cheese Icing

Instructions

1. Prepare boxed cake mix according to instructions
2. Add OREO cookie to each cupcake cup
3. Cover with each OREO cookie with cake batter
4. Bake according to cake mix instructions
5. Remove from oven and allow cupcakes to cool
6. Puree OREO cookies and add to cream cheese icing, to taste (you may prefer less cookies or more)
7. Frost the cupcakes and add an OREO cookie on the side

OREO Cookies and Cream Cupcakes