Recipe: Homemade Oreo’s

So last weekend I was meant to go to a small ‘potluck’ with friends, but I came down with a bit of a bug that seemed to peak that morning. And I was meant to bring the dessert, so yeah. I ended up with all these cookies. I took them to work, but I did eat more than I should have. And that definitely didn’t help the head cold.. haha

Ingredients:
Cookies:
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter plus 2 tbsp
1 large egg

Cream:
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup Crisco
2 cups powdered/confectioners sugar
2 tsp vanilla

Preheat the oven to 375

Mix together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar.

Melt the butter. I usually do this in glass dish in the microwave. Having any clunks of butter in the mix makes it difficult to blend in. But you also don’t want the ‘cook’ the butter or make it boil in the microwave.  So I melt some, pour it out, then nuke the  next bit, pour out what melts, etc. That way you melt the whole block, but without boiling parts of the butter.

Mix the butter along with the egg into the dry mix. Make sure to get the egg through the whole batter, it might require a little it more time mixing, even if it looks like its blended well.

Grease up a cookie sheet (spray or some of the crisco). To make the cookies a uniform round shape, I actually used a round tsp measuring spoon. They spread about 1/3, so give it the appropriate space. And as you can see, they aren’t perfect, but as long as they’re all similar, you won’t have problems finding ‘matches’.

Bake those for about 10 to 14 minutes. Keep a good eye on them though. As soon as the tops have ‘cracked’ they’re good to go.

Make the filling while the cookies are baking. Mix the butter and crisco so they are well blended together. I found that challenging with just a fork. But as long as you stick with it, it turns out fine. Add the vanilla once they’re blended.

Then you’ll want to beat in the sugar until its light and fluffy. I found that didn’t take as long as I thought it would.

The rest should be easy to figure out. Put the filling between like sized cookies and your good to go! I recommend not letting the cookies sit out much if you don’t want them to dry out. If you let them dry out they will be more like real Oreos, but you’ll need a glass a milk/water just to swallow… haha