Oatmeal Cupcakes w/ Cream Cheese Frosting
Makes 12-15 cupcakes
Ingredients
Oatmeal Cupcakes
- 1⅓ cup boiling water
- 1 cup quick-cooking oats
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup packed dark brown sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable shortening
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ cup buttermilk
Cream Cheese Frosting
- two 8-oz packages of cream cheese, room temperature
- 12 tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 cups confectioners sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Special Equipment
- electric mixer
- cupcake tin
- cupcake liners
How-to
Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350º
- Insert liners into cupcake pans
- Combine boiling water and oats in a medium bowl; let stand 20 minutes
- Beat granulated sugar, brown sugar, shortening, and vanilla at medium speed of a mixer with a whisk attachment for 5 minutes
- Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add oatmeal, beating until blended
- Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg, stirring well with a whisk. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Batter should be soupy
- Pour batter into lined cupcake tins, filling a third of the way up each liner. Sharply tap pans once on counter to remove air bubbles. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean
- Cool in pans on a wire rack
Frosting
- In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter using an electric mixer with a whisk attachment, until smooth. Add vanilla and mix for about 4 minutes
- Slowly sift the confectioners sugar into the butter/cream cheese, about one cup at a time
- Continue to beat until all lumps are gone. Add the vanilla and mix until fully combined
Assemble
- After cupcakes have cooled, using a pastry bag or spatula, apply frosting
- Dust with cinnamon
Oatmeal Cake recipe adapted from Cooking Light. Frosting recipe adapted from Crazy About Cupcakes by Krystina Castella.