Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cupcakes with Cinnamon Sugared Chip Frosting.
fo’
life.
Wish I could say more but… am at a complete loss for words on this little Friday here. The only thing I want to do is smash my entire body into a some oatmeal cupcake pillows. And build myself a house of epic proportions, made of cinnamon sugar chip frosting.
And peanut butter.
Then eat myself out of house and home.
Literally.
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cupcakes
[adapted from my sweet potato pie cupcakes]
makes 12 cupcakes
1 large egg
3/4 cup loosely packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 stick), melted and cooled
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 cup chocolate chips, tossed in a sprinkle of flour
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cupcake tin with liners.
In a large bowl, whisk egg and sugar together until combined and no lumps remain. Add in vanilla extract and butter, whisking until smooth. Add in flour, oats, baking soda, salt and cinnamon then add in milk and stir until combined and smooth. Fold in chocolate chips. Drop about 1/4-1/3 cup of batter into each liner. Bake for 15-17 minutes, or until cupcakes are set and spring back at the touch. Let cool completely before frosting.
Cinnamon Sugared Chocolate Chip Frosting
1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks), softened
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup loosely packed brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon of milk, if needed
1/3 cup mini chocolate chips
Beat butter in the bowl of an electric mixture until completely smooth and creamy. With the mixer on low speed, add in powdered sugar slowly. Gradually increase mixer speed and add brown sugar and vanilla, then beat for 2-3 minutes, scraping down sides and bottom of the bowl. If frosting is too thick, add milk 1 teaspoon at a time until desired consistency is reached If it’s too thin, add sugar gradually until it thickens. Fold in chocolate chips, then frost cupcakes. Extra frosting can be stored in the freezer for about 6 weeks.
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185 Comments on “Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cupcakes with Cinnamon Sugared Chip Frosting.”
Oh boy, oh boy, If these could, in any way, become part of my current weight loss diet, I would be making them as SOON as I finish work today.
Yum, yum, yum
I read the title of the recipe thinking it was going to say cookies and then I saw cupcakes! Love the idea of using oatmeal here, this is probably a healthy cupcake right…?
They look…fabulous! I love making oatmeal/choc chip cookies. Best of both worlds. And in cupcake form…with all the frosting….oh, perfect!
That frosting looks amazing! Yum! Have a great weekend!
Oh yeah, I need one of these. Like now. I’m going crazy right now. My whole routine is thrown off. Too much studying for Finals…too little baking. :-?
I am sooooooo making these this weekend. Or maybe just the frosting…in a bowl….with a spoon. :)
I’ve always loved the combination of chocolate and cinnamon so these will definitely be added to my recipe collection. Yummmm!!!
these look nom-bomb.com HOLY CRAP. making them STAT (it’s 730am, i do not care!)
Hmmm, oatmeal in cupcakes, great way to get the healthy part in. These look wonderful!! Cinnamon and sugar and chocolate, I love it. I bet the cinnamon really brings out the flavor of the chocolate. I think these would be perfect for work on Monday!!! I just love your creativity!!
Let’s watch Dirty Dancing in the little frosting house before eating our way out, coo? Coo?
These look soooo delicious! Definitely saving this recipe : D
Oh wow… these have SO much going on which you might think would be overwhelming but how can you go wrong with these flavours?!? Once again, you’ve blown my mind (and made me very, very hungry for decadent baked goods at 7:30am!)
I love that you turned one of my favorite cookies into a cupcake! That frosting looks amazing!
Drool…these look so gorgeous!
i want to go swimming in a poor of that frosting. lord help me!
Yum! These look awesome! Plus oatmeal=healthy! :D
Wow, what a treat!
Cookie-like cupcakes? I’m in!
I’ll take one bowl of frosting, please.
Wow…I just want to bury my face in that bowl of frosting! The cupcakes look incredible, too, but that bowl of frosting is calling my name!
You’re doing good girl…oh yes; Brown sugar in frosting? Love it, but I’ll have to change the chocolate chips to CINNAMON chips…don’t know if it’ll be better, but you know I love my cinnamon chips and this recipe seems a good way to use them.
Frosting is my Manna. I’ll pay half the rent in your frosting house, kay?
Now these look like the perfect way to start the weekend! And with a word like oatmeal in the title, I’m claiming them as tomorrow’s breakfast!
If I could, I would 100% call in sick today to make these immediately and eat them all by myself…
if they have oatmeal in them that means they’re healthy, right?!
Sometimes you just don’t need to say anything (loved that movie, BTW), your pictures speak VOLUMES!
That frosting looks like it should be lunch.
Now I want a cupcake…
I hope you’re doing better soon. Sounds hard :(.
I’d like to live in that home too!
Bowl of frosting plus one spoon please!
Great recipe and photos! i have been testing out several oatmeal concoctions lately and most seem dense. how are these?
i hope these aren’t gone already. if you need to get rid of a few, i’ll send you my address :)
Happy Friday!!
Wow. Just wow!
Um, okay. You’ve officially cupcaked my favorite cookie.
Are you some kinda crazy baked good enabler?!? Silly question. Duh.
Sigh.
Such beauty.
I’ll take a dozen.
My kind of cupcake!
These little beauties require no words. They look fantastic!
I literally want to just eat gobfuls of that icing. It looks amazing. I LOVE icing. It’s literally my favorite food. well, cake is, because the cake is necessary to balance out the sugar overload from the icing…
Looks fabulous! I want a bowl of that frosting!!
Sometimes reading your blog at 9am is really really bad (read: good) idea. I am most definitely going to make these!!
I want to dive headfirst into that frosting!!!! This is amazing!!!!
Like others I thought this was going to be a cookie but a cupcake!? Genius!
These look great!!
I kind of just want to sit around all weekend and eat the frosting out of a bowl…
Wow, that frosting? AMAZING! I love how fluffy it looks and paired with that beautifully-colored cupcake is perfect. I can’t get over how good these look.
I pinned this recipe (obv), great post!
Thanks for pinning!
I’m embarrassingly gushing, but you continue to blow me away with incredible concoction after incredible concoction. I am DROOLING at my keyboard (no wonder they’re one of the germiest things in the world :)) thanks to them. GAAAH.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The white background really accentuates the cupcake. Great contrast, especially in the last photo. I would also love to smash my face into a pillowy cupcake. Right now.
Gorgeous. how do you come up with these ideas? creative.
“EXTRA FROSTING CAN BE STORED IN THE FREEZER”??? Really? If you’re like me with frosting, there WILL be no extra to be stored in said freezer!!!
My bad. Excellent point.
Ummmm… are you serious with these? Jess. Come on. You’re killing me.
So looks like elastic pants all weekend for me, yes?
Yes.
Wow! These look positively amazing!
I just made your chewy chocolate chip oatmeal cookies yesterday (as a treat to my sick, head cold congested self) and now you tempt me with these a day later!
btw- those cookies were outrageous. If there are any left by the end of the day today I’ll be surprised.
SO glad you like them!
Ok, shut.the.front.door. Yesterday, I organized my recipe box. Cut, pasted, copied onto cards, etc. Feeling pretty good about my success, I made chicken enchilada spaghetti again (forgot about that tasty dish) and dared to make that crazy looking zebra cake floating around on the blogs. Not too shabby. Then I cleaned the kitchen up and said, “STOP BAKING for a while and resume normal life.” Well, that plan is officially shot in the butt!