Homemade Oreo Cookies
Ingredients
Chocolate wafers:
- 1¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened Dutch process cocoa*
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 to 1½ cup sugar**
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup plus 2 Tbsp (1¼ sticks) Butter room temperature, unsalted
Filling
- ¼ cup butter room temperature, unsalted
- ¼ cup vegetable shortening
- 2 cups confectioner's sugar sifted
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Set two racks in the middle of the oven. Preheat to 375°F.
- In a food processor, or bowl of an electric mixer, thoroughly mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda and powder, salt, and sugar. While pulsing, or on low speed, add the butter, and then the egg. Continue processing or mixing until dough comes together in a mass.
- Take rounded teaspoons of batter and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet approximately two inches apart. With moistened hands, slightly flatten the dough.
- Bake for 9 minutes, rotating once for even baking. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool.
- To make the cream, place butter and shortening in a mixing bowl, and at low speed, gradually beat in the sugar and vanilla. Turn the mixer on high and beat for 2 to 3 minutes until the filling is light and fluffy.
- To assemble the cookies, in a pastry bag with a ½ inch, round tip, pipe teaspoon-size blobs of cream into the center of one cookie. Place another cookie, equal in size to the first, on top of the cream. Lightly press, to work the filling evenly to the outsides of the cookie. Continue this process until all the cookies have been sandwiched with cream.
- Dunk generously in a large glass of milk.
Notes
*I used Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate. It’s a mix of natural and dutch process cocoas. I really like how it came out because it made the cookies dark just like real oreos. I also read A LOT of the comments on Smitten Kitchen’s original post and it seems that the general consensus is that regular unsweetened cocoa powder will work just fine.
** I went right in the middle and used 1¼ c and this was the perfect sweetness for me.