Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes

So, after being gone all last week, this has been catch up on the house week. Mostly laundry actually. Man, who knew that a weeks worth of laundry from 5 people could be so daunting. Yikes!! But I am kind of behind on my cooking and baking as well since I've been gone and cleaning. Not to mention, I needed an Oreo fix! So here we are. I saw this recipe earlier this week on a blog I kind of stock called Picky Palate. If you don't follow this blog, you should!! It's amazing. Plain and simple! And that is where I found this little concoction. Gorgeous, right!?! I love all the layers. Just makes you wanna take a bite, and really, all you need is a couple ingredients. You just prepare your brownie mix, spread oreos with peanut butter, stack, cover with brownie mix and bake. Easy and so delicious! Enjoy!!

Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes

1 box brownie mix, 8x8 inch size
24 Oreo Cookies
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a 12 muffin cup baker with paper liners.

Prepare brownie mix according to package directions. For each cupcake cup spread 1 teaspoon of peanut butter over 2 Oreo cookies and stack them on top of each other. Place oreo stacks into the cupcake lined muffin cups. Spoon 2 tablespoons of brownie batter over each stacked oreos and let it run down the sides of the cookies. If you have left over brownie batter, bake separately in a separate baker or muffin tin. Bake cookies and brownies for 18 to 20 minutes, until brownies are cooked through. Let cool completely then serve.

Makes 12 servings

Recipe from picky-palate.com

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Comments

[sfoulger]

Was wondering it butter cream instead of peanut butter or nutella would work?

[ehBeth]

Just made them and had my first bite. I'm going to need a lot of tea to finish one - they are very sweet (they're brownies, what did I expect?) - but the people I made them for are going to fall all over them. I will try them with a different kind of cookie next - maybe peanut Pirate cookies with raspberry jam instead of PB. Definitely a great concept. oh - and no sticking problems with the paper liners.

[anolan4]

These turned out so amazingly delicious. For those who want the cookies to get soft and are thinking of using the butter trick, try mixing a little butter (I used country crock, 1 part butter to 2 parts PB) so that when it gets hot, it melts a bit and makes the cookies soft. And its a lot easier than having to dip the cookies in it. So good thanks for the recipe!

[Teri-Lou]

The reviews are in and everyone loved these. I made 18 with one brownie mix. 12 with PB and 6 with Nutella. These are great treats !

[mscake999]

delicious!! don't be fooled by the "shiny" spot on top though, I left them in longer, thinking they weren't cooked enough!

[toccoagirl]

i really want to try these they lok so good

[wadesworth]

Only one suggestion. Try it with the double stuff or the white chocolate covered ones.

[thinkpadt30]

A good way to soften hard cookies is to put them in an airtight container with a slice of regular white bread. Works for almost every kind of cookie. The bread will turn hard as a brick. Once, when I was off to college, I got a care package of cookies that were HARD. I thought they were too hard for one slice, so I put two slices of bread in the container. The next day they were so soggy, I had to leave the top off for several hours so they could harden up some!

[pmatejcak]

WOW this is a MUST!! Thanks for the post.

[danlynne07]

omg, these look so good. OREOS and Brownies...my fav

[Agadorable]

When I use brownie mix in a cupcake paper liner, they do not stick if I place the paper liner in the tins, then spray with Bakers joy.

[TheMacyC]

These look so delicious !
Definitely gonna try them in the weekend !
Yumm :)!

[shelly09]

Unfortunately, the cheaper liners can cause sticking to the sides of the paper (for any recipe). The best liners to use is the silicone reusable liners. Then you can pop them out of the silicone liner, wash them and reuse them.

[Amycc]

I had the cup cake paper stick to sides also

[TaraSchwarz]

I made these and the only problem I have which no one seems to have had is that they are stuck to the cupcake papers and the papers are not easy to remove. I had to cut the paper off which is a pain. I did exactly everything they said so I dont know why this happened.

[KKDEHAAN]

Mine stuck a little, but the ones that that stuck the most and were the hardest to remove from the paper were the ones that were a little overfull and the brownie mix baked over the edges of the liners. Also, they stuck more when not stored in a warm place. On all of mine you had to go very slowly with the papers and work them off carefully because they were ripping when you tried to take them off too quickly. I would also be very careful not to over bake them as I think this can cause them to stick to the papers too. Good luck, hope it helps!

[Amycc]

I had the same problem what went wrong????

[KKDEHAAN]

I love this recipe and so does everyone who tastes them! I have read some comments that say they cannot get their cookies to soften enough and instead of using butter I found that if I leave them in a warm place (like the microwave) overnight the cookies are quite soft the next day... I also have not made them with regular Oreos but use peanut butter ones and I think that maybe this has helped the cookies soften as well and who doesn't love MORE peanut butter??? :-)

[lindayat]

I didn't have enough Oreos so I made some with Girl Scout mint cookies. Also I have a grandkid that doesn't like peanut butter so I just took off one chocolate cookie wafer off one Oreo and stuck the icing side to another Oreo. I crushed up the leftover wafers and sprinkled it over the cookies so we could tell which ones didn't have peanut butter. I haven't eaten them yet. I have to wait until tomorrow's dinner. Although one may disappear before then.

[kfarrell3]

Do the cookies get soft or do they stay hard

[TaraSchwarz]

stay hard.

[hazenoff]

I would THINK, I have yet to do it, since I just found this today... but I would THINK that substituting Nutella for Peanut butter would help to make them soft.
Try it, or I will... and we will see what we have, other than an expanding waist line.

[foodsnots]

It could, but the only thing I would be worried about is the Nutella burning. If anyone tried it and it turns out, let me know!

[foodsnots]

They stay hard. That is the one thing about this recipe I would have liked to change, but a solution still hasn't really presented itself.

[berdandy]

A baker friend of mine says, "Soak the oreos in butter."

[berdandy]

Some additional info: "Melt butter in a shallow pan, put oreos in the melted butter for a minute, flip and repeat on the other side. I've used it for oreo-based mini cakes."

[foodsnots]

Wow... I suppose that could work, but I might have to add a disclaimer saying, "Caution!! These are a heart attack smothered in chocolate." LoL! Thanks for giving a solution ;)

[LaughSing]

HAHAHAHAHA! 425 calories wasn't enough...

(Sounds delicious and like it fixes the issue, though.)

[Julianne fights Dragons!]

Would letting it soak a bit of milk before placing it inside the cupcake soften it up?

[thechizzle]

sometimes oreos will soften up when they get stale

[spectacular]

Ewww... i hate stale oreos. 'spose they would work good in this though

[cpeterka1]

Not to worry, They Would NEVER be around long enough to even approach stale.

[ashbegash]

These look fantabulous! :D

[ANANSIE26AGUA]

I will try with "dulce de leche instead peanut butter... Will try this recipe and share it with my friends,thanks!

[leah_thomas]

THOSE LOOK AMAZING!! I may just have to try them. But since I'm on a calorie restricted diet I made some adjustments that make them a little less calorie dense. I haven't tried this version yet so I'm not sure how it will turn out but I've done the No Pudge brownies for years and they taste just as good as normal brownies.

Here is a reduced fat/calorie version

1 box No Pudge Brownie Mix
2/3 c plain greek yogurt - fat free
24 reduced fat oreos
1/4 cup chocolate PB2 (I'm guesstimating here)
2 tbs water (another guess, may need more to reach the right consistency)
2 packets truvia sweetner
3 tsp cocoa

Mix brownie and yogurt together to make brownie batter.
Mix PB2, sweetner, cocoa, and water together to make a chocolate peanut butter spread.

Prepare like the original recipe but use the No Pudge box as your baking guideline.

This knocks the recipe down to 220 calories a brownie and that's with the double cookie inside. Theoretically, if you do it for one cookie a brownie it would come down to 110, maybe even less since you'd probably use less chocolate peanut butter spread.

[bdominicano]

No joke, these got me laid...

[meliae]

I just choked on my Oreo!! LMAO :D I better get busy and make some!

[Spint]

Win.

[HighGuyRedEye]

So I'm thinking substituting the peanut butter with Nutella spread would be boooomb.

[JesterPoet]

Made these for the work pot luck today. Since my family wouldn't be eating them, I upped the ante by dipping the Oreos in butter for one minute on each side (as suggested by a previous commenter - to make the cookies softer). It worked PERFECTLY.

It also made them go from really unhealthy to hideously unhealthy. I kind of feel like a hero.