Vegan Oreo Cupcakes

Given that Oreos are naturally vegan, and delicious, there are a perfect candidate to make into cakes!
Vegan chocolate cake base made with black cocoa and soy milk.
Buttercream made with stork and ground Oreos!

RECIPE

CAKE

  • 200 g Self raising flour.
  • 200 g Light brown sugar.
  • 15g Black cocoa.
  • 15g Regular cocoa.
  • 225 ml Chocolate soy milk (You can use 225 regular soy/almond milk and 10g extra cocoa).
  • 1tsp baking powder.
  • 1 tsp Vanilla.
  • 100g Flora vegan butter.
  • 1 tbsp Cider/Rice vinegar.

Topping

  • 150g Flora vegan butter / Stork baking block.
  • 300g Icing sugar.
  • 100g ground Oreos.
  • 30 Drops of Foodie vanilla essence.

METHOD

Cake

  • Baking temperature is gonna be trial and error for your own oven as all are a little different but for mine, I pre heat the oven to 170c for my fan assisted oven.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together your flour, cocoa baking powder and sugar.
  • Melt your vegan butter/stork and make sure there are no lumps.
  • Pour your milk, vanilla, butter and vinegar in and whisk till smooth!
  • Split the mix evenly between 12 cupcake cases.
  • I find 2 level scoops of a “small” ice cream scoop does the trick for me.
  • Bake for 18-20 minutes until baked. The vegan ones take a little longer than traditional dairy cakes.
  • You can do it by feel, as you can feel if it’s sufficiently spongy but you can’t go wrong with the tried and tested skewer method by poking a cake to the middle with a skewer and see if it comes out clean.
  • Once baked, leave to cool fully.

Topping

  • Blitz a sleeve of Oreos in a blender until a fine powder.
  • In a large bowl, beat your plant butter / stork with the vanilla till smooth. 
  • Sieve in the icing sugar, add 100g of the Oreo and combine.
  • Add in the icing sugar and beat again until fully combined. 
  • If too thick, add a little plant cream / plant milk until pipeable.

Construction

  • Not a great deal to the construction of these ones ones so…….
  • Pipe the buttercream on to the cakes.
  • Pop an Oreo on top!