Homemade Oreos
 
 
Serves: approximately 45 sandwiches
Ingredients
  • cookies:
  • 3 sticks unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • filling:
  • 1 stick unsalted butter
  • 1½ cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon milk
Instructions
  1. In a very large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Mix in the eggs.
  2. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, cocoa powder, and salt. Beat this into the butter mixture in 3 additions, mixing well between each addition.
  3. Once the dough is well combined, turn it out onto a generously floured surface and separate into 2 pieces. Shape each piece into a flat disk, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
  4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silpat liner.
  5. Roll out the dough, one disk at a time, on a floured surface until quite thin (like a real Oreo). Use a small circle cutter (mine was 2 inches) to cut out as many cookies as you can. Roll out the dough again and continue to cut circles until you have used all the dough.
  6. Bake for 10 minutes, or until the edges are firm. Cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet before cooling completely on a wire rack.
  7. While the cookies cool, make the filling. Cream together the butter and powdered sugar. Mix in the vanilla and milk until well combined. Spread filling in the center of half of the cookies, avoiding the edges so the filling won't spill out. Top with another cookie. (I found dropping a small dollop of filling in the center of a cookie and then squeezing it down into a sandwich with the top cookie was the fastest, most effective way to fill them.)
Notes
This filling recipe makes just enough for an Oreo-like layer of cream in the middle. If you want a thicker cream filling, simply double the filling recipe.
Likewise, if you don't need 40-something Oreos, you can easily cut the recipe in half and make 20-something cookies instead.
Recipe by the ringers at https://www.theringers.co/2015/12/homemade-oreos/