Homemade Oreos

Homemade Oreos

Makes 16

COOKIES

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted
1 egg
1 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt

  1. In a medium bowl, whisk the butter and the sugar until combined.
    Whisk in the vanilla and melted chocolate. Add the egg and stir until well blended.

  2. In another bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
    Stir to blend them. Using a wooden spoon, stir the flour mixture into the
    chocolate mixture. The finished dough should feel like Play-Doh.
    Cover the dough with plastic, and set aside for 1 hour or until firm.

  3. Place the dough on a long sheet of parchment paper. Use your hands to
    shape it into a rough log, about 10 inches long and 2 1/2 inches in diameter.
    Place the log at the edge of the parchment. Roll the parchment around the log. With your hands on the paper, roll the dough into a tighter log, keeping the diameter the same.

  4. Refrigerate the dough for at least 2 hours, or until it is firm enough to slice
    without crumbling.

  5. Set the oven at 325 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

  6. Remove the dough from the paper. Cut the log into 32 slices, each a quarter-inch. Set them on the baking sheets 1 inch apart.

  7. Bake the cookies for 20 to 25 minutes, checking them often after
    15 minutes, or until they are firm when touched in the center.

  8. Cool completely on the sheets.

FILLING

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 2/3 cup confectioners’ sugar, sifted
1 tablespoon milk
Pinch salt

  1. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter on low speed for half a
    minute. Add the vanilla and confectioners sugar and beat until smooth.

  2. Beat in the milk and salt. The filling will look and feel like spackle.

  3. Place 1 tablespoon of filling on the flat side of 16 cookies. Press the
    remaining 16 cookies on the filling, flat sides against the cream, to evenly
    distribute the filling.

  4. Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

OK…the chocolate cookie part was always my favorite part of the cookie. I actually used to scrape out the filling & just eat the 2 cookies. NOW I can make lots of the cookies…yum!

Question??? Does everyone/anyone remember the “Oreo Song” from many years ago? My sister & I used to sing it over & over.

Who remembers it? It begins…

“DO YOU KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO EAT AN OREO?”…next line anyone?

Hi I’m new on here! This looks so good!! I will be trying it soon!

We have Oreo Bigstuffs here, as well as fudge covered Oreos white fudge covered Oreos, mint stuffed Oreo and inside-out Oreos which are vanilla cookies with chocolate filling. Yum!