Crumbl Birthday Cake Oreo Cookies Copycat Recipe

This week Crumbl Cookies brought back the Birthday Cake Ft. Oreo cookies. Since we didn’t share a DIY Copycat Recipe for this flavor before for all the people who unfortunately don’t have a Crumbl near them, we thought today would be the perfect time. Plus, there are many people that live by a Crumbl but still love to try to make these amazing Crumbl cookies at home. We are here for you!

This is an OREO® cookie base with OREO® crumbs, covered in birthday cake cream cheese frosting then topped with OREO® cake ball pieces and rainbow sprinkles.

If you want to check out some of the other copycat cookie flavors, may we suggest you start with these: Cornbread Cookies, Lemon Glaze Cookies, Funfetti Milkshake Cookies, Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies, Crumbl Turtle Cookies, Chocolate Ft. York Cookies, Crumbl Dirt Cake Cookies, Muddy Buddies, Mini Twix, or the Churro Cookies. 

MINI CRUMBL COOKIES ARE THE WAY TO GO

Yes, Crumbl is known for their GIANT cookies. They are so big, in fact, they list each cookie as 3-4 servings in their stores. I don’t know about you, but I hate to share my cookies. I like my own perfectly round, un-touched cookie so mini cookies are right up my alley.

This Birthday Cake Oreo Cookies recipe makes 36 cookies because I recommend making them MUCH smaller than Crumbl would. Instead of a “shareable cookie”, this is a bite-sized cookie that you won’t feel so guilty eating. Three bites and it’s gone. Have two or three, no one is judging! I would assume Crumbl uses at least 1/4-1/3 of a cup of cookie dough for each cookie and I suggest less than 1 tablespoon of dough in order to make these a more manageable size.

WARM OR COLD COOKIES?

That is the question! I’m not talking about the cookie dough because no chilling is necessary for the dough but how do you serve them? Chilled or warm?

One word. CHILLED.

We are back to CHILLED with this recipe! Trust us. Plus, the super soft cookie with the chilled cream cheese frosting just works perfectly.

I have also found that all the Crumbl recipes stay fresh longer if you keep them in the refrigerator. No matter what air-tight container you keep the cookies in, they don’t stay fresh as long out on the counter as they do if you put them in the fridge. So, the moral of the story is STORE THESE COOKIES IN THE FRIDGE. Sure, you can eat them cold or let them come to room temperature but you’ll thank me when you still have fresh cookies 3-4 days later.

WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE CRUMBL BIRTHDAY CAKE OREO COOKIES

3/4 cup Butter – The butter for this recipe should be softened and salted or unsalted will work.

1/3 cup Granulated Sugar

3/4 cup Brown Sugar

1 Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla

1/2 cup Dark Cocoa

1 1/2 cups Flour – Regular, old, all-purpose flour

1 1/4 Cup Oreo Crumbs

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp Baking Soda

1/4 tsp Salt

BIRTHDAY CAKE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING INGREDIENTS

4 oz CREAM CHEESE – Go for the full-fat cream cheese

2 TBSP BUTTER – Softened salted or unsalted butter

1/4 tsp CAKE BATTER FLAVORING

3 cups POWDERED SUGAR

Milk – just a splash if you need to thin the frosting

HOW TO MAKE BIRTHDAY CAKE OREO COOKIES

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Use parchment paper or a silpat mat to line a baking sheet. 

2. Cream the butter, sugar and brown sugar in a stand mixer until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes). Scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure all ingredients are blended.

3. Add in egg and vanilla and beat until combined.

4. Add in flour, dark cocoa, Oreo crumbs, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix until all combined.

5. Scoop out dough and roll into balls. Scoop out a little less than 1 TBSP dough for smaller cookies (or 1/4 cup dough for BIG cookies). Place dough balls on prepared pan (12 cookies to a pan if smaller cookies) and slightly flatten with your hand to about 3/4 – 1 inch thick.

6. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool cookies cookie sheet for 10 minutes before removing to cooling rack. NOTE: If you decide to make the bigger cookies, you’ll need to bake them for 13-15 minutes.

7. While cookies are cooling, make the frosting.

BIRTHDAY CAKE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING DIRECTIONS

1. In stand mixer, cream butter and cream cheese for about 2-3 minutes until smooth.

2. Add in the birthday cake flavoring and powdered sugar and mix on high for about 3 minutes until smooth. If the frosting is too thick, add milk a teaspoon at a time to get the consistency you are looking for. If frosting is too thin, add more powdered sugar.

3. Put the frosting in a piping bag with a star tip OR you can put the frosting in a gallon size Ziploc bag and cut off one corner of the bag. Use the frosting bag to pipe frosting in a spiral on top of the cooled cookies. Sprinkle each cookie with sprinkles and crushed Oreos.