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RECIPES
OREO ChEESECAKE CUPCAKES
Makes 24 cupcakes
INGREdIENTS
1 ½ packages (58 cookies) Oreo cookies
2 sticks (226g) butter, cubed
2 x 8oz packages (453g) cream cheese, cubed
1 cup (200g) sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
4 large (60g) eggs, lightly beaten
½ cup (125ml) heavy whipping cream
Pinch sea salt
All ingredients room temperature
METhOd
1. Preheat Oven to 275°F (135°C)
2. Place all Oreo cookies into food
processer and process until you have
reached fine crumbs.
3. Remove 1
⁄3 of the crumbs and reserve
for later use. Place cubed butter into
food processor with remaining cr umbs
and process just until you have reached
a dough consistency.
4. Line cupcake pan with cupcake papers
and distribute the Oreo dough evenly
into each of the cupcake papers (about 1
tablespoon each). Press the dough down
onto the bottom of each of the papers
making sure the bottoms are cov ered
evenly ¼" thick as this will be t he crust
of each cupcake. Refrigerate while
mixing other ingredients .
5. Place cream cheese, sugar, vanilla
extract and 2 tablespoon of Oreo cookie
crumbs into mixer and mix on spee d 8
until smooth.
6. Reduce mixer speed to 3 and add heavy
whipping cream, pinch of salt and eggs
(add eggs slowly one by one) just until
incorporated. Try not to over mix
the batter.
7. Remove crusts from refr igerator and
fill each cupcake with batter al most to
the top.
8. Place in oven for 20-22min (rotate
pan half way through) cook until
centers have slight jiggle. Turn oven
off and crack open oven door and
allow cupcakes to cool. (This preve nts
cracking.) Remove from oven and
sprinkle crumbs on tops of cupcake s.
Then refrigerate for at least 3 hours
before serving.
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