Minnie Mouse® Cupcakes

Description

Vanilla Oreo® cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. These were a huge hit with the kids and tasted so good. They were so much better than using a packaged cake mix. The cream cheese frosting went really well with the Oreo®’s. As the birthday cake lady, this is now my go-to cream cheese frosting, and I will never buy a box cake mix again.

Ingredients

  • 36 chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Oreo®)
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 3 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup butter, room temperature
  • 2 ½ cups white sugar
  • 1 ½ cups 1% milk
  • 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 5 egg whites
  • ¾ cup salted sweet cream butter, softened
  • 3 teaspoons Mexican vanilla extract
  • 6 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 ½ (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
  • 4 drops pink food coloring (such as Wilton® Rose Icing Color), or as desired
  • 2 packages mini chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Oreo®)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 36 cupcake cups with paper liners.
  2. Twist 36 cookies apart carefully. Break the side without cream into quarters and place in a bowl; toss in 2 tablespoons flour so that they don’t stick together. Place the cookies with cream into the bottoms of each cupcake cup
  3. cream-side-up.
  4. Whisk 3 1/3 cups flour
  5. baking powder
  6. and salt together in a separate bowl.
  7. Beat butter using an electric mixer with a flex edge attachment in another bowl until creamy and fluffy
  8. about 5 minutes. Beat in sugar
  9. milk
  10. and vanilla extract using a wire attachment. Mix in flour mixture slowly until well blended using the flex edge attachment. Add egg whites and beat for 2 minutes. Fold in quartered cookies.
  11. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups
  12. filling each 3/4 full.
  13. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
  14. about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven transfer to a wire rack to cool completely
  15. about 30 minutes.
  16. Mix softened butter and vanilla extract together using an electric mixer in a mixing bowl until completely combined. Add powdered sugar
  17. 1 cup at a time
  18. mixing slowly until incorporated. Increase speed to medium-high and beat
  19. scraping the sides of the bowl often
  20. until frosting appears dry.
  21. Dip 2 toothpicks into food coloring twice and mix into frosting. Frost cupcakes as desired and decorate using mini chocolate cookies.

Prep Time: 45 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins

Servings: 36

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