Thursday, January 6, 2011

our second love


The Oreo cookie.  It truly is our second love.  It may come from a box and been baked by the mysterious Mr. Christie, but wow!  They are good.  Both of us could easily polish off a box of these bad boys in one sitting (with a tall glass of milk, of course).  So it wasn't a stretch for us to test a Cookies and Cream Cupcake recipe.  Chock full of Oreo cookies.  We found a recipe that looked tasty and here is the result.  A real treat!

Unfortunately the frosting portion of the recipe was a bust.  Terrible.  Too sugary, and overpowered the real star of the show.  The Oreo!  So I went back to our old faithful of frostings, which is the light and airy Swiss Meringue Buttercream.  Much better.  Almost mimics the creamy Oreo center.

I took a plate minis of this cupcake to my son's preschool Christmas concert party, and they were devoured within minutes.  And I can't remember exactly how many I ate during the day.  All in all, I would say they were a success!

After all these accolades, the jury is still out on if we'll be adding these to the line-up of offerings.  We still have a little cost calculating to do before committing to baking them for the masses.

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