Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes

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• Ingredients
• Chocolate Cupcakes
• 1 1/2 C Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 3/4 C Cocoa
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 3/4 C Sugar
• 1/2 C Vegetable Oil
• 2 Large Eggs
• 1 C Milk
• 1/2 C Boiling Water
• 12 Oreo's cut in half
• Oreo Cream Cheese Icing
• 4 oz Unsalted Butter
• 4 oz Margarine
• 8 oz Cream Cheese
• 2 tsp Vanilla
• 3 C Powdered Sugar
• 12 Oreo's (blended to a fine powder)
• Chocolate Oreo Filling
• 1 C Chocolate Pudding
• 1/2 C Whipped Topping
• 4 Chopped Oreo's
• Instructions
• 1. In a small bowl combine the flour, baking soda, cocoa, baking powder, and salt. Stir with a whisk.
• 2. In a large bowl mix together sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla, and milk.
• 3. Add the dry ingredients to the wet one half at a time and mix thoroughly.
• 4. Once everything is mixed add the hot water. (You should bring the water to a boil and let sit for 30 seconds before adding to the batter)
• 5. Be sure to stir as you pour the water into the batter.
• 6. Preheat oven to 350°. Line cupcake pan with liners and fill with about ¼ cup of batter. Bake for 14-16 minutes. Cool completely.
• Oreo Cream Cheese Icing
• 7. Blend 12 Oreo's in a blender or food processor into a fine powder.
• 8. In a bowl cream together butter, margarine, cream cheese and vanilla, then add the powdered sugar one cup at a time.
• 9. Lastly add the blended Oreo's.
• 10. The icing does need to be refrigerated if you are not using right away. Be sure to re-whip for 2 to 3 minutes after refrigeration if saving for later.
• Chocolate Oreo Filling
• 11. Chop 4 Oreo's with a knife. This does not need to be super fine just small chunks that will fit nicely into the middle of a cupcake.
• 12. Mix the chocolate pudding, whipped topping, and Oreo's together and it’s done. I used a cook and serve pudding mix but you can use whatever pudding you would like.
• 13. Now let’s put these chocolate Oreo cupcakes together for an Oreo bite of awesomeness!!!
• 14. Take the cupcake and create a hole in the center with either a knife or a cake corer.
• 15. Fill the hole in the cupcake with your filling.
• 16. You can use a small spoon but I took a plastic sandwich bag and put the filling inside and then cut one of the corners and then squeezed it into the cupcake.
• 17. Make the hole about the size of a nickel because you do have decent sized chunks of Oreo's in the filling. Once all the cupcakes have the filling, ice the tops with the frosting. I used a large open star tip to frost mine with and a pastry bag then topped each cupcake with half of an Oreo.

bon appetit