Recently I've been trying out other people's recipes, mostly for things I had never imagined making myself, like Oreos. Who thinks about baking their own Oreos? But, this is seriously worth it. I might never buy the real thing ever again.
The recipe can be found at Smitten Kitchen, I came across it quite a few months ago and thought that it would be great for me because I am not a fan of the filling in normal Oreos. So, I longed to make just the cookies, the pregnancy and being huge and hating sweet things and really anything that wasn't tacos kept me away though. Alas, I am no longer pregnant, so it was a must on the 'make soon' list. Here is a link to the original recipe.
Makes 25-30 sandwich cookies and a whole ton of frosting
Ingredients:
Dough:
1 electric mixer (very necessary this time, sorry)
1 1/4 cups Flour
3/4 c unsweetened cocoa (instead of 1/2 cup)
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1 stick butter at room temperature
1 egg at room temperature
Filling:
1 stick butter at room temperature (instead of 1/4 c butter and 1/4 c shortening)
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups sifted confectioners sugar
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375°F
- Combine flour, cocoa, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda, then mix until homogeneous (fancy word for distributed equally, today I feel like being fancy, I made my own oreos after all you know)
- Add in the butter (the room temperature butter, and might I remind you that room temperature is not squishy but cold to the touch...) and the egg.
To make the filling:
All the dry ingredients before mixing |
All the dry ingredients after mixing. |
The finished dough. |
A teaspoon crammed full of dough. |
A use for the millions of baby spoons I have |
Yep thats the baby right there, and here is squish the dough |
All the dough is squished hooray! |
The finished cookie part |
Me trying to be all artsy with the picture taking |
The frosting |
I hate sifting things... |
And the cookies! |
OMG I'm going to have to try and make these for my host family! XD
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Keep it up!
Jamie
Yummy! I am guessing they were eaten in 2 seconds.
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