my little kitchen and me: Oreo chocolate cupcakes

Its my husbands' birthday tomorrow and i wanted to bake him something he liked! He loves chocolate..so decided to make...

Oreo chocolate cupcakes ..

I found this recipe from http://www.bakerella.com/

For the cupcakes:
1 1/2 cups of plain flour
1/2 cup natural unsweetened cocoa
1 1/4 cup castor sugar
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup hot water
Some oreo cookies

First, preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Then start by lining the cupcake tin with 12 cupcake liners. Break some oreo cookies into small pieces and place into cupcake liners.

Then, start measuring out the ingredients and add into a big mixing bowl.

Plain Flour

Then the unsweetened cocoa powder

Then the baking powder, baking soda, salt and caster sugar..

Start mixing all the dry ingredients together with a wire whisk. Mix well.

Start adding in the eggs, vanilla essence, milk and vegetable oil.

Continue to mix until well incorporated

Then add the hot water, and mix well. The mixture should be quite liquid.

Use a ladle to pour into cupcakes liners.

This is what it looks like once baked.

Now for the frosting..i have used buttercream icing

Buttercream recipe:
170g slightly salted butter
340g icing sugar
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp vanilla essence

First measure the butter..

Then add the icing sugar

Then using an electric mixer, whip till light and fluffy

The buttercream that is ready for icing should look like this.

I am going to use my large tip nozzle (See how much bigger it is compared to my usual nozzle i use for piping macarons)

I am also using my Wilton large tip coupler for the first time..

All ready to be iced

Iced with buttercream icing

Time to decorate with my alphabet set and fondant icing

Any idea on what i am creating??

I coloured white fondant icing with caramel colouring

Note the green non-stick board in the photos.. It was quite expensive gbp29.99 but the fact that i dont have to use corn flour/icing sugar when rolling out my dough/pastry/icing really pushed me to buy it! After using it for the first time today, i have to say it was definitely a good move to get it!

Cupcakes with a half an oreo as topping..