Birthday Desserts

Tomorrow is my SIL's birthday, and she's requested cupcakes and pie for her birthday. I was more than happy to comply. We decided on a Snicker's Pie and Oreo cupcakes, which are both totally doable. The Snickers Pie was :

1 chocolate pie crust
1 (8 oz.) block of cream cheese
½ cup dulce de leche (turns out I accidentally bought sweetened condensed milk instead of dulce, and this actually worked as well, just fyi)
1 cup powdered sugar
1 (8 oz.) package Cool Whip
3 Snickers candy bars, chopped
1/2  cup peanuts, chopped
Melted chocolate, for drizzling (optional)
Spread 2 tablespoons of dulce de leche on the bottom of the pie prepared pie crust (fully cooled if homemade). Sprinkle 1/4 cup of the chopped peanuts and 1 of the chopped Snickers bars over the bottom of the pie crust. In a large bowl, beat ¼ cup of the dulce de leche with the cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Add in the thawed Cool Whip and beat mixture until creamy and fluffy, scraping the sides as needed to ensure everything is fully incorporated. Fold in 1 chopped Snickers bar. Pour filling into crust, evening out the top with a knife or spatula. Dollop the remaining 2 tablespoons of dulce de leche around the top of the pie and swirl in with a knife. Top with remaining peanuts and chopped Snickers. If desired, drizzle the top of your pie with melted chocolate. Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving.

Y'all this is freaking delicious. 

 Next, I made Oreo cupcakes. The cake is your basic chocolate cake, with which I put half of an Oreo on the bottom before the batter, then I baked it. But the piece de resistance, the frosting. I tried a frosting this time that tasted like the inside of an Oreo, and y'all, I succeeded and I am happy. Here is is:

2 cup butter, room temperature
6 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla
4 TB heavy cream
10-20 Oreo cookies

In a food processor or blender, make the Oreo cookies into a fine powder, you want it that way so that you can pipe the frosting. Mix butter and powdered sugar together, but only add the powdered sugar about 1 cup at a time. Mix until well blended. Add vanilla and heavy cream, whip together until all blended and creamy, if you need to add more cream or powdered sugar, feel free. Then add in the Oreo powder, blend until just together, if you whip too much, it'll turn your frosting gray. Then just pipe it on! It was so good. I loved it. This amount of frosting did about 30ish cupcakes, and had some leftover, so just...fyi I guess.

These were all so good, I can't wait to eat more.