Oreo Cookies and Cream Filling Recipe
This OREO Cookies and Cream filling is perfect for cakes and cupcakes. Cream Cheese Frosting with OREO cookie crumbs throughout – it’s a delightful surprise to fill your desserts! This OREO Frosting Recipe is perfect for OREO lovers and maybe the best thing you’ll ever fill a cake with!
Originally published April 2013, updated April 2025
OREO Cookies and Cream Filling
Soooo, I’ve been asked again and again and again about posting my Oreo Cookies & Cream Filling Recipe and finally, I’ve gone and done it! Yay! My husband is a huge fan of OREOs (actually my kids are too!) so this is the perfect way to top any birthday cake in my house! Or fill any chocolate cupcake.
This OREO Buttercream is a simple recipe, but so, so good! I use it to fill cakes and cupcakes, chocolate or vanilla!
OREO Filling for Cupcakes
This OREO filling for cake was not originally meant to be used as a frosting because it’s super soft and I always made it pretty chunky. With that texture, I’d pipe cookies and cream cupcake filling into a cupcake with a huge round tip (see below) or a spoon and offset spatula to put piles of it between OREO cake layers (as seen above).
I did the same with the filling in this OREO Sandwich Cookie Cake:
OREO Cream Filling
If you want to make chocolate cupcakes that taste like the ones below, bake cupcakes using this chocolate cake recipe. Then when they’re cooled, fill them with the OREO cupcake filling. You can see how I fill cupcakes with a thick filling here.
I frosted these with cream cheese buttercream frosting and then topped them with a Double Stuf Oreo! Cupcake Heaven!!
OREO Cookies and Cream Frosting
To use it to frost an OREO cake and pipe it as a border or for decorating, I crush the cookie pieces into a really fine crumb! I also add a little less heavy cream so it’s stiffer and can be used to cover a cake, like this mouth-watering layer cake and pipe if you need to!
For this delicious cake, I used the OREO Cookies and cream cake filling in between the layers of the whole cake and it was fantastic! It also had chocolate ganache drip, and I added some Cookies & Creme Candy bars on top.
This is a from-scratch chocolate cake filled and frosted with the OREO Cookies & Cream filling and frosting. Alright – now that you see some of the possibilities with this amazing recipe, let’s get down to the details!
Tools Needed
I list some tools below that I used but you may not have. So I’ve also listed some more common alternatives that will also do the job!
- Food processor (or plastic zip-top bag and a rolling pin) to crush the cookies
- Electric mixer (stand mixer or hand mixer)
- Large bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer)
- Offset spatula
- Piping bag (if you’ll be piping this as frosting)
- Large Star Tip (to pipe borders like below) or Large Round Tip (to fill cupcakes)
- Silicone or Rubber Spatula
Ingredients
These ingredients for OREO creme filling are all very straight-forward and easy to find at your local grocery store.
- Cream Cheese, at room temperature
- Salted Butter, at room temperature – you can use unsalted butter if that’s what you have on hand and add a pinch of salt if it’s needed
- Pure Vanilla Extract
- Powdered Sugar – also called confectioner sugar or icing sugar
- Double Stuf OREO Cookies – regular OREO cookies work as well but I like the extra cream flavor from the Double Stuf. And please use real OREOs – not knockoff cookie sandwiches. 😉
- Heavy Cream
Find the complete recipe with ingredients measurements in the recipe card below.
How to Make OREO Cookies and Cream Filling
- Use a food processor to crush the OREOs. You can also do this by hand by placing the cookies in a Ziploc freezer bag and banging with a meat tenderizer or rolling pin. I like to have a lot of fine crumbs but some small chunks as well so there’s an occasional small bite of cookie.
- In a stand mixer with the paddle attachment (or a large bowl with a hand mixer), cream together the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla on medium speed until smooth. Mix in the powdered sugar until smooth.
- Fold in the crushed OREO crumbs on low speed. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a silicone spatula to make sure the crushed cookies are completely incorporated into all of the frosting.
- Use immediately to fill layers of cake or cupcakes or refrigerate until ready to use.
- If you refrigerate it, it will thicken. Use 1-2 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream or milk to thin it again to the right consistency for filling!
Serving Suggestions
Here is a list of cake recipes that go with this frosting:
- Vanilla Cake (A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe)
- One Bowl Chocolate Cake (from scratch)
- White Almond Sour Cream Cake (aka Wedding Cake)
- {Durable} Chocolate Cake Recipe
- Easy Chocolate Chip Cake Recipe
- Super Red Buttercream Frosting
- Simple OREO Cake Recipe
- Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cake Recipe
- Reese’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake
Pro Tips
- Room Temperature. Ensure all ingredients are at room temperature so they will cream together smoothly.
- Crush them more! If you want to use this OREO filling recipe on the outside of a cake, pulverize the OREO cookies to fine crumbs so you don’t clog up a piping tip! Then you can use an offset spatula to frost the outside of a cake and a piping bag and tip to add borders, designs, etc.
- Refrigerate. Because of the cream cheese content, cakes and cupcakes filled with OREO cream cheese filling should be refrigerated until serving!
Serving Suggestions
This filling and frosting is delicious with so many cakes previously mentioned. Just add a stall glass of milk and you’ll be set!
Storage Directions
Store any unused OREO Cake filling in a bowl covered tightly with plastic wrap or an airtight container with a lid. It is good in the refrigerator for up to 7 days. Also store any cakes or cupcakes filled with this frosting in the fridge until about an hour before you’re ready to serve it.
More OREO and Frosting Recipes
- American Buttercream
- OREO Cookies & Cream Ice Cream Cake
- Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting
- Maple Brown Sugar Buttercream
- Super Simple Strawberry Frosting
- Brownie Batter Frosting
- Chocolate OREO Cake Recipe
So… are you a fan of Oreo’s? Will you be making this filling?
Oreo Cookies & Cream Filling Recipe
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: Enough to fill approximately 24 cupcakes.
Description
This OREO Cookies & Cream filling is perfect for cakes and cupcakes. Cream Cheese Frosting with OREO cookie crumbs throughout – it’s a delightful surprise to fill your desserts! This OREO Frosting Recipe is perfect for OREO lovers.
Ingredients
- 8 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature (takes about 2 hours to reach room temp)
- 4 oz. salted butter, at room temperature (1 stick)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 12 crushed Double Stuf Oreos (I do mine in a food processor), or any chocolate sandwich cookie will work!
- 1–2 tablespoons heavy cream, as needed
Instructions
- Use a food processor to crush the OREOs. You can also do this by hand by placing the cookies in a Ziploc freezer bag and banging with a meat tenderizer or rolling pin. I like to have a lot of fine crumbs but some small chunks as well so there’s an occasional small bite of cookie.
- In a stand mixer with the paddle attachment (or a large bowl with a hand mixer), cream together the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla on medium speed until smooth. Mix in the powdered sugar until smooth.
- Fold in the crushed OREO crumbs. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a silicone spatula to make sure the crumbs are completely incorporated into all of the frosting.
- Use immediately to fill cakes or cupcakes or refrigerate until ready to use.
- If you refrigerate it, it will thicken. Use 1-2 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream to thin it again to a good consistency for filling!
Notes
- Room Temperature. Ensure all ingredients are at room temperature so they will cream together smoothly.
- Crush them more! If you want to use this frosting on the outside of a cake, pulverize the OREO cookies to fine crumbs so you don’t clog up a piping tip! Then you can use an offset spatula to frost the outside of a cake and a piping bag and tip to add borders, designs, etc.
- Refrigerate. Because of the cream cheese content, cakes and cupcakes filled with OREO cream cheese filling should be refrigerated until serving!
- Prep Time: 15
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Gorgeous… I love the oreo cake
My two almost three year old daughter asked for a princess cake for her birthday. I loved yours on this site so i was going to duplicate it in a way. She wants a chocolate cake filled with Oreo. I want to put fondant on it because I like the look of it. I know fondant is not to be refrigerated so any suggestions on how i can make this cake ahead of time(day before) without having to refrigerate the fondant?
As long as it stays in a very cool room, it should be fine overnight!
Hi I’ll be making a bridal shower. CAKe and they want cookies and cream filling and thank God I found your recipe ,can The cake be out on the Andy table all the while until it’s ready to be cut? Pls help
I would really like to learn how to make a frosting identical to oreo filling. If anyone knows how please tell me the recipe
Hi. Can’t wait to make the Oreo Cookies & Cream Filling for the Youth Group at church. Please tell me what is ‘campaignlcon’ in the ingredients. Thank you. Keep posting these goodies!!
Hi Karen… I have no idea what that was about or where it came from! I just deleted it and you can proceed on with the recipe… 🙂 I hope you’ll love it!
How many cupcakes will the filling fill up? I need to know as soon as possible. It is for a upcoming event in a couple days.
Honestly it depends on how much you pipe into each cupcake but I think it filled around 2 dozen for me.
Hi rose, was wondering what I should do if I have three cakes that have cookies and cream filling. They all won’t fit in my refrigerator and I seen you put that it should be refrigerated
The cream cheese frostings/fillings absolutely need refrigeration, so I’d recommend making a vanilla buttercream without cream cheese and simply adding the crushed cookies to that.
Can this recipe be used for making filling for chocolates? I just got new molds and I wanted to try different fillings for the chocolates that I plan on giving my friends for Valentine’s day.
I don’t see why not!?
Hi rose, I just wanted to know what the yield of this is in terms of using it for a cupcake filling. I am making 12 cupcakes and want to if this recipe needs to be adjusted to get me that amount of filling.
This would be too much for 12 cupcakes. I’d probably cut it in half.
Hi, I was wondering how much does this recipe yeild? I’m making a very big cake and want to use it as my filling.
Around 3 cups.
Hello, since you say to refrigerate the cupcakes containing the Oreo creme filling until ready to serve, would it be ok if they’re out for about 3.5 hours before being served? I have to bring them somewhere and they won’t be served until that time after I get there and I have no access to a fridge.
Hi Talia, thanks for stopping by the blog. The cupcakes will be fine if they’re out that long. Hope you enjoy them!
Hello! I was wondering if I could use a hand mixer to mix the filling :)?
I’m sure you could!
How far in advance can I make the filling?
A few days – just keep it refrigerated.
Can I freeze this filling?
Yes!
I’d like to fill and freeze 2 layers of devil’s food cake. I know you said it would freeze well, but what do you think about freezing the cakes already filled?
I’ve done that with no problems!
amazing recipe really nice
The recipe for Oreo Cookies & cream filling says page not found. Is there a chance you can send it to me? Thank you
Hello I can’t find the recipe to the Oreo filling it goes to chocolate buttercream please help
So sorry about that Elisha! It’s fixed now 🙂 I was doing some updating today and somehow the recipe card number got changed.
My name is Linda Jones I made the vanilla bean frosting. It was amazing thank you!
Awesome – happy to hear it!
I was struggling to find an easy way to make a “mint chocolate chip” cake like my 5 year old daughter requested for the top tier of her birthday cake. I was about to say “forget it” as I had to do everything else for the party as well. I decided to do this Oreo filling/choc. cake for the 3 tier instead…however, when I went to buy the Oreo cookies, low and behold – mint cream Oreo’s! Thank you for inadvertently saving my daughter’s dream cake! I highly recommend playing with different Oreo flavors. Thanks so much!
Oh that’s awesome Tiffany – thank you for sharing!! 🙂
I made this recipe for my son’s 10th birthday party. I used a store bought chocolate fudge cake mix and made this filling to go between two layers. I have to admit, I loved this recipe so much I used a fairly thick layer of it between the cake layers! I had so many rave reviews of the cake! This filling (along with Rose’s Crusting Buttercream recipe) were absolutely delicious! Thanks Rose for sharing your recipes! Couldn’t have done this without you!
Awesome – thank you!
I think I put too much heavy cream when I was mixing. My son came on the side of me and bumped. Opps. Well now it’s runny. Any tips on how to thicken it back up? I tried to add more powder sugar but that didn’t help.
Oh goodness – sometimes that’s really hard to correct. You can add more sugar but it may get too sweet before the texture corrects. Sometimes I make a half batch and just mix it in to the batch that’s too wet to try and balance it.
Looking for Oreo filling recipe
Hello Rose,
Amateur baker here, so this might be a dumb question. I was wondering if you add any heavy cream during the mixing process, or is it only needed to thin out the filling after chilling? Or is it a preference thing?
Thanks for your time, and thanks for sharing this recipe.
I usually add a little when Is tart mixing, and then as needed at the end for thinning it out.
How much filling does this make? I need to make a two layer 8inch cake and 38 cupcakes and I don’t know how much to make of this. The cake and cup cakes will be filled.
Thank you for posting this recipe! This might be a silly question but in the food processor are we using only the outside cookie or can the Oreo cookie filling be used to get the flavor in?
Thank you!
Amanda
I use whole cookies!
Love this recipe!!! How long can I keep it refrigerated? Will it still be good a week later?
Yes, it should be good in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
How long can the cookies and cream filling stay crunchy inside cupcake? I have used pudding with Oreo crumbs but after a while the crumbs get soft.
This cookies and cream filling tasted great and was easy to pipe into the cake!
Hi there
Can I use cream cheese frosting (the ones you buy ready – Philadelphia cream cheese frosting ) instead of cream cheese? And if so would i need to take out the sugar from the recipe? Or alter it in any way? Thx
Hmmm, I’ve never used pre-made cream cheese frosting so I am not sure.
So amazing! Thank you for sharing this recipe!
Do you think I could use this filling in a Bundt cake? I would like to put have the cake batter in the pan then the cookie and cream filling then the rest of the cake batter, then bake the cake. Do you think this would work
I don’t think that would be a good thing. I’m afraid it would melt and be a mess.
Ok so I am not sure what I did but this was a gooey mess! The filling was so overwhelmed w the cream cheese taste . Didn’t taste like oreos at all. . A mess
This is one of my favorite frostings! It’s always a hit whenever I make it.
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Absolutely stunning and love the pink dripping
Yum! And I love all the different ways you’ve used this filling. Beautiful. Visiting from the Hearth and Soul link party.