Vegan Oreo Cookies and Cream Cupcakes
These easy vegan cookies and cream cupcakes are soft, light and packed with crunchy Oreo pieces. They're finished with a creamy vegan buttercream and topped with even more Oreo for the ultimate vegan Oreo cupcake.
Servings: 12 cupcakes
Calories: 441.4kcal
Equipment
- 12 hole cupcake tin
- 12 cupcake cases
- Large mixing bowl
- measuring jug
- Electric hand whisk or stand mixer
- sieve
- wooden spoon or spatula
- wire cooling rack
- piping bag
- Piping nozzle
- chopping board
- knife
Ingredients
For the cupcakes
- 150 g vegan butter
- 200 g caster sugar
- 300 g self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 300 ml plant milk
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
- 6 Oreo cookies crushed
For the decoration
- 125 g vegan butter
- 250 g icing sugar
- 0.5 teaspoon vanilla paste
- 6 Oreo cookies halved
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C / 356F / Gas Mark 4 and line a 12-hole cupcake tin with cupcake cases.
- Beat the vegan butter and caster sugar together until pale and creamy.
- In a separate jug, mix together the plant milk, apple cider vinegar or lemon juice and vanilla. Don't worry if the mixture looks curdled.
- Add half of the milk mixture to the butter and sugar and mix gently.
- Sift in half of the flour and baking powder and fold until just combined.
- Add the remaining milk mixture, followed by the remaining flour and baking powder. Fold gently until you have a smooth batter.
- Fold in the crushed Oreos.
- Divide the batter between the cupcake cases.
- Bake for 15–18 minutes, or until golden, springy to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Leave the cupcakes in the tin for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the buttercream, beat the vegan butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract with an electric whisk until pale, creamy and no longer grainy.
- Pipe the buttercream onto the cooled cupcakes and decorate each one with half an Oreo.
- Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
Calories: 441.4kcal | Carbohydrates: 65.48g | Protein: 4.39g | Fat: 18.01g | Saturated Fat: 4.62g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4.99g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7.26g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 243.38mg | Potassium: 96.06mg | Fiber: 1.05g | Sugar: 43.01g | Vitamin A: 973.93IU | Vitamin C: 1.8mg | Calcium: 61.07mg | Iron: 1.85mg