What’s the best way to show someone you care about them? With a cupcake! Teacher Appreciation Cupcakes are a super cute dessert, and a great way to thank your child’s teacher for all that they do! A simple cupcake recipe with Oreo truffles, made in just about 30 minutes.
Teacher Appreciation Oreo Cupcake Recipe
If any of you have youngin’s in school you probably know this past week has been Teacher Appreciation Week…well, nothing says “I appreciate you” like a cupcake. Wait, maybe that’s just me, but anyway ~ cupcakes are what I do.
I started a day ahead making Oreo Truffles
I started a day ahead making Oreo Truffles
How to Make Oreo Truffle Apples:
This time I shaped them into Apple-y sort of ball shapes and placed a pretzel stick in the top like a stem.
Freeze them so they’re firm and then melt the red melting disks dip each truffle apple in, being careful not to get the red all over the stem.
When the candy was set I piped on some green leafs with royal icing just to make them cute.
Aren’t they adorable??
I used MY FAVORITE CUPCAKE RECIPE
and my VANILLA BUTTERCREAM
Everyone remember to thank a teacher!
Teacher Appreciation Cupcakes
- Prep Time: 25 min
- Total Time: 35 min
- Yield: 48 apples 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Description
What’s the best way to show someone you care about them? With a cupcake! Teacher Appreciation Cupcakes are a super cute dessert, and a great way to thank your child’s teacher for all that they do! A simple cupcake recipe with Oreo truffles, made in just about 30 minutes.
Ingredients
Scale
Apples
- 1 pkg. (8 oz.) brick cream cheese, softened
- 36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed (about 3 cups)
- 16 oz red candy disks, melted
- Pretzel sticks or Tootsie Rolls
Royal Icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- green food coloring
Instructions
Apples
- MIX cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended.
- SHAPE into 48 (1-inch) apples.
- Place pretzel stick into the top of truffle, or cut Tootsie Roll into piece and roll into the shape of a stem.
- Freeze 10 min. Dip balls in melted chocolate; place in single layer in shallow waxed paper-lined pan.
- When the candy coating is set mix the powdered sugar, milk and green food coloring in a small bowl.
- Place icing in a piping bag fitted with a small round tip, or in a zip-top bag with a tiny bit of the corner snipped off.
- Pipe on leaves.
- Allow the truffles to set up.
Notes
Store in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 apple
- Calories: 87
- Sugar: 10.2 g
- Sodium: 31.4 mg
- Fat: 4.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 11.8 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 4.6 mg
Keywords: easy cupcake recipe, simple cupcake recipe, homemade cupcake recipe, teacher appreciation ideas, oreo baking recipes, cute baking recipes
Hi! About to make these for teacher appreciation! Would the truffles be ok if I make them ahead 5 days and freeze them? Also, just to make sure I understand, the truffles are made with actual Oreo cookies? Not the ones already crushed??
TIA!
Carrie
I have never seen the oreos that are already crushed! BUt yes, I just crush Oreos.The problem you might have with freezing the Oreos is the chocolate coating might sweat a little bit making them sticky. But you could make them in advance and refrigerate them!
These look so adorable..don’t know how to use fondant yet and I’m making some cupcakes for my 4yr olds nephews teachers.. He has Autism, And his teachers have just been amazing..Want to thank them and now I know how!! I also saw your footballs..Do you think its possible to use this to make any shapes??
Just made these for my daughter’s Teacher Appreciation luncheon and they were a big hit!
Great! So glad to hear 🙂
Just got an order for 6 dozen cupcakes for teacher appreciation week at a local elementary school. I am excited to try these…however I cannot find any of the red melting chips in our town. I am going to attempt them with just dipping in frosting…think it will work??? I am running out of ideas!!
Angela, not sure if it’s too late but if your town has a Walmart, you should check in the cake decoraing section. That’s where I found the red candy melts (or if they don’t have red, you could maybe do them green if they have it). Or maybe melt white chocolate chips (like tollhoue brand or something) and put some red food coloring/gel in it? Just a suggestion, not sure if it would work.
So cute! I can’t wait to make these for my boys’ teachers!!! Thank you!!!
I am getting hungry already. I hope they taste as good as they look!
Hermosos 🙂 all cupcakes are very cute. Greetings from Mexico.
These are awesome! I love that you made apple shaped truffles to go on top, that is such a cool idea!
So cute! I used to be a teacher and would have LOVED one of these! I linked to your site!