Homemade Oreo Cookies
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Much to the disappointment of my children, I don’t buy prepackaged cookies at the grocery store.
I don’t want to be all braggy or anything, but I can usually knock the pants off of a store-bought cookie with my own homemade version.
This true in almost all instances. The exceptions? Girl Scout cookies and Oreo cookies. Oreo cookies are pretty much my nemesis. They are perfectly crunchy and that cream filling? Why don’t they sell buckets of that? I would buy it. I would bathe in it. I would use it as toothpaste. Then I would smear it on my living room walls and call it paint.
I love Oreo cream.
I attempted to recreate those fabulous cookies at home and I failed. These cookies you’re looking at really aren’t Oreo cookies. They are similar. They are intensely chocolate with a creamy, sweet filling. They are crunchy and yummy. I like them a lot.
Will they replace my package of Oreo cookies that I keep stashed on a high shelf far above the children’s eye level? Never. But if you’re seriously against processed foods and packaged baked goods, these are for you. If you just want to feel all super-mom-ish and create a childhood favorite in your own kitchen for your babies, these are for you. If you just like cookies a lot, these are for you.
Just don’t forget the glass of icy cold milk!
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Ingredients:
For the cookies:
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, melted and cooled slightly
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted and cooled slightly
1 egg
1 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
For the filling:
1/2 cup butter, soft
1 2/3 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon milk
pinch of salt
Directions:
To make the cookies:
Beat together the butter and sugar until well combined. Whisk in the vanilla and chocolate. Add the egg and mix until thoroughly incorporated.
In another medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda until well mixed.
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until it comes together. It will be thick and floury. Use your hands to really mix it together. It should have the consistency of play-doh.
Let the dough sit at room temperature for about 1 hour.
Transfer the dough to a 15 inch square sheet of parchment or wax paper. Use your hands to shape the dough into a log about 10 inches long and 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Place the log at the edge of the sheet of parchment paper and roll the parchment around the log. Twist the ends close, keeping the log fully encased in the parchment. Roll it into a smooth log and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or until firm.The log may settle and sink a bit, so reroll it every 15 minutes or so to maintain the shape.
Heat oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cut the dough log into 1/4 inch thick slices. Place the slices about 1 inch apart on the baking sheet.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the cookies are firm to the touch. Check them frequently after 16 minutes, poking them in the center. As soon as they feel firm to the touch remove them from the oven.
Let cool on the baking sheet to warm or room temperature.
To make the filling:
While the cookies are cooling, beat the butter for 30 seconds or until completely smooth. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla and beat until the mixture is perfectly smooth. Add the milk and salt and beat again. The mixture should feel a bit like putty.
Scoop 1 rounded tablespoon of the filling on the bottom of half of the cookies and top with the remaining cookies.
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Oreo cream is made from the magic of angels. I think I’ll make just the cream part of this recipe and eat it alone in a big bowl.
What? That’s normal.
Karly — February 20th, 2012 @ 9:05 am
@Cookbook Queen,
If it’s normal for me to brush my teeth with Oreo cream (and it is), then it’s perfectly normal for you to eat it by the spoonful.
Oreo creme is magical. Still I could down a few of these cookies!
These look amazing. You are brilliant!
TOtally making these….
Karly they are absolutely gorgeous! You did a fabulous job on one of my fave cookies! And to be able to have all the “filling” at my disposal that I wanted to make double or even triple stuffed cookies is a great thought
Karly, your Oreos look incredibly good! I will never consider myself a good enough baker to attempt these too, but boy am I tempted! Mmmm… Thanks for sharing.
Karly — February 20th, 2012 @ 7:35 pm
@Georgia @ The Comfort of Cooking,
Oh, please. These are simple and you would totally rock them!
These look delicious!! Will have to add to me “to make” list for sure!!
My husband would love these so I’ll be making them. You are so clever to figure this out!
I’m with you on the oreos. I have a feeling they’re just SO processed that there’s no way homemade will ever be able to conquer they’re flavor. And I’m strangely okay with that. these do look delicious though! For cream-filled chocolate not-oreo cookie sandwiches!
Know why you can’t recreate them? Because there is nothing remotely natural in them.
Does it concern anybody else even a little bit that there is NO dairy in oreo cookies? They’re chocolate cookies with “cream” filling. Shouldn’t they have touched a cow somewhere along the way? (plus side: my boss keeps a box of them in her desk for when I bring cookies/cupcakes to work and she can’t have any because of her violent dairy allergy and my resistance to baking with “fake butter”)
Now, down off my soapbox, WHY ARE THEY SO AWESOME?!?!
I always have a secret stash of oreos somewhere in our house:-) But I think I need bowls full of this filling…you know, to dip like everything in!!! These look awesome!!!
yesssssssssssssssssss so yummy!!
I’ve been thinking of trying homemade oreos for a while, but I’ve been nervous to. Your’s look beautiful though!
well……..THANK GOODNESS a COW did come in contact with THIS recipe!
lol!
i was reading the ingredients and in the whole recipe there’s a combined total of 2 1/2 sticks of butter and 1 Tablespoon of milk…..so there…..that makes it a good-for-you-cookie, right?!?
That and when you drink them with a glass of milk…….boom! Together, they BOTH do the body good! hahahaha~!
(just sayin’)
Kudos to you for trying to make homemade Oreos. I appreciate your honesty in saying that your cookies are great but they aren’t Oreos.
We’re a lot a like. Oreo cookies are my weakness too. I can’t buy them any more though, because I finally realized that if Oreos enter my house, they WILL be in my hand/mouth/tummy within 60 seconds of crossing the threshold. Especially the special edition birthday cake flavour….
We made red velvet woopie pies and mixed marshmellow fluff with the buttercream store bought frosting and it came pretty close. I didn’t write down the measurements, but try it.
The flavor and color of Oreos comes from black cocoa which you can purchase from King Arthur Flour catalog or online.
Shortening makes nicely crispy cookies. If you have a good gingersnap recipe, try that as inspiration for oreos. They have a similar texture, down to the perfect way they disintegrate in your mouth after dipping them in milk. You might also try 1/2 butter, 1/2 shortening. My holiday gingersnaps ran out of shortening halfway through, and I could swear they were even better with 1/2 butter.