St Patrick’s Day Cupcakes
These St Patrick’s Day Cupcakes are seriously amazing with just the right amount of chocolate and mint you will be in heaven and wont want to stop with just one cupcake. Celebrate your St Patrick’s Day with these amazingly delicious cupcakes.
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Ingredients
- For the chocolate cupcakes:
- 1 C flour
- 1/4 C unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ C light brown sugar
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1/3 C canola oil
- 1/2 C buttermilk
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- Mint Cookie frosting
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 3 C powdered sugar
- 1/4 C ground mint oreo cookies
- 2-3 drops of mint green food coloring
- 2 tsp mint extract
- 5 tbsp heavy whipping cream
- 1 piping bag fitted with large star tip
- Decoration ingredients
- 1 C andes baking chips
- 22 in Mint oreo cookies cuthalf
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Instructions
- Preheat Oven to 350 degree and line cupcake pan with St Patricks day themed cupcake liners
- In a large bowl, add together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, mix to combine
- Add in the sugar and brown sugar stir until combined.
- Add the oil, buttermilk, egg, and vanilla extract. Stir until combined.
- Fill cupcake liner 3/4 of the way full.
- Bake for 21 minutes.
- Remove the cupcakes from the oven.
- Transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool
- Frosting directions
- Using a blender or food processor, blend up 6 Mint oreo cookies until fine crumbs. This should equal out to 1/4 C
- Using a standing mixer, beat together the butter, powdered sugar, crushed oreo cookies, mint extract and heavy whipping cream until combined, smooth and thick peak star to form
- Beat in until combined the mint food coloring
- Scoop frosting into piping bag and pipe cooled cupcakes
- Decorating cupcakes
- Pour the andes baking chips onto a plate
- Carefully roll the edge of the cupcake into the chips
- Place the Mint oreo cookies that have been cut in half, in the center of the frosting
- Enjoy!
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