Oreo Cupcakes!

Long awaited there it is, you wanted it, you got it!
Although I have not made them in quite a while, I found the site I got the recipe from and translated it for you, my loves and added my personal tips ;) Hope you'll enjoy it!

  OREO CUPCAKES 

ingredients:

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cupcakes:

• 2 eggs
• 175g white sugar 
• 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
• 5 tbsp butter (~70g)
• 1/3 cup hot water
• 200g plain flour
• 75g ground coconut (or nuts) - I used coconut and although I'm not a big fan, I really enjoyed how                                                                 they taste in those cupcakes :)
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• pinch of baking soda
• pinch of salt
• 100g plain (natural) yogurt
• 12 oreos

frosting:

• 250-300ml COLD whipping cream (30%)
• ~125g mascarpone
• 8-10 oreos
• 2-3 tbsp icing (/powdered/confectioners') sugar 

What to do?

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1. Preheat your oven to 180C and line muffin tins with paper liners. Put an oreo on the bottom of every paper liner.
2. In a pan melt butter with hot water and cocoa.
3. Beat eggs with sugar until mixture has thickened and turned a very pale yellow.
4. In a seprate bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and coconut (or nuts).
5. Turn the mixer on low speed and start adding to egg mixture: a spoon of yogurt, a spoon of cocoa mixture, a spoon of flour mixture and keep doing this untill you're incorporated all of the ingredients. Be careful not to overmix though! Turn the mixer off as soon as you mixed everything!
6. Pour the dough evenly to 12 paper liners you've put oreos in (put the dough on top of the cookie)
7. Bake for 15minutes :) And while cupcakes are in the oven start making frosting.
8. Crush oreos - you can do this in blender, food processor or simply by putting oreos in a plastic bag and using rolling pin or  meat tenderizer ( be careful and don't hurt yourself or anyone else, please!)
9. Beat whipping cream with icing sugar (remember to keep the whipping cream in the fridge till the last moment, it needs to be really chilled or it will start running and you won't be able to make whipped cream!)
10. At the end of whipping (when it's pretty thick) add mascarpone.
11. Really slowly mix in oreos and rather leave it not too corporated than go crazy with mixing.
12. Wrap the bowl with cling foil and leave in a frigde to chill, while the cupcakes are cooling. 
13. When cupcakes are ready and cooled decorate them with frosting!

And voila! There you have the delicious oreo cupcakes :) You can also decorate them with oreo cookies cut in half on top of the frosting 

Peanut butter & jelly cupcakes!

Ahh, do you know how amazing it is to bake twice a week again? Feels like I'm living again! So let me tell you about those cupcakes.
So friday - my classes were cut short and my and one of my best friends figured that we could bake something.  And we did, amazing peanut butter cupcakes with peanut butter and frosting and jelly haha loads of peanut butter, huh? I hadn't done them before, 'cause well.. I'm a huge peanut butter fan and I had been thinking about peanut butter cupcakes as a waste of such a goodie (you do put like a half of a jar!). But Maya talked me into trying it and I gotta tell you, it's amazing! It wasn't a waste after all :) Their fascinating salty-sweet taste is something you HAVE TO try! I mean it, if you were scared, just like me, to try them, DO IT!
We've used a really good recipe from foodmess.com :)It's in polish, so I believe I'll translate for y'all!

 PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY CUPCAKES 

Ingredients 

(makes about 18 bigger cupcakes):

cupcake dough:
1 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
170g unsalted butter at room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
75g = 2/3 cup peanut butter
3 eggs
1/2 cup half and half cream (12-18%)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

frosting:170g cream cheese (e.g. Philadelphia)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

+ JELLY - we used my favourite - rasberry

What to do?

1) Preheat the oven to 180'C (355'F) and line cupcake pan with paper liners

2) In a smaller bowl sift together dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and salt).

3) In a bigger bowl combine butter and sugar until nice and fluffy, add peanut butter and mix thoroughly

4) Add eggs, one at a time and mix after each one

5) Add cream and vanilla extract and mix it all until just incorporated

6) Add dry ingerdients in three additions, stiring after each one

7) Fill the cupcake liners about two-thirds full

8) Bake for about 20 minutes or until they are gettin' a nice golden color

9) Leave it to cool and prepare the frosting!

1)Combine cream chees and sugar

2) Add peanut butter, salt, vanilla extract and mix it well (if it's too thick you can add a tiny bit of milk!) 

Put the frosting over cooled cupcakes and decorate it with jelly!
I actually before putting the frosting on, cut wholes in cupcakes and put a little bit of jelly inside of the cupcake, 'cause I liked the cupcakes with more distinct taste of jelly, but if you do not then it's alright to skip it and just enjoy it like it is! 

I think they look adorable and they taste even better! Mmmm amazing! Now you have to try it, no other option.
Guys, I'm loving all the feedback and when you tell me that you've baked "my" cinnamon rolls it just... it's just amazing, so thank youuu! And keep going, baking and getting pleasure from it just like I do :)
Waiting for your thoughts on this peanut butter subject, are you loving it as well? Would you "waste it" like that?
xoxo
Annie