Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Oreo and Reese's Chocolate Cupcakes


These cupcakes were just amazingly good! I don't know what else to say about them. You will for sure get your chocolate fix with these! If these do not look amazing to you, then something is wrong with you. I am truly not a chocolate fan. I will do chocolate in moderation. But I can tell you that even I loved these cupcakes. And they may not look simple, but really they are. The secret to keeping simplicity, is using the chocolate cake recipe below. Yes, it is okay, to start with a boxed mix! What is even better, is I bought mine when they were only .88 cents! Believe me, this cake recipe is WAY better than any homeade cake, and definately much simpler.

I made these for two people that had the same birthday! So to please both of them, I made one cake, with two variations of the icing, to make twice the fun, and the chance to experiment with two recipes at once. I use the large cupcake liners, in a regular cupcake tin. This gives you a larger bakery size cupcake.
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For these Oreo cupcakes, I made vanilla buttercream icing and stirred in crushed Oreos, and pipe onto cooled cupcakes. Top with more crushed oreos for decoration.





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For these Reese's cupcakes, I made vanilla buttercream icing, and mixed in some peanut butter right into the icing. Pipe onto cooled chocolate cupcakes, and top with chopped peanut butter cups for decoration.




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