Oreo Cookies
This is one of my old recipes that I almost totally forgot about, so to prevent that from happening, we’ll put it on the blog. These are surprisingly good, probably an 8. They are also best eaten same day. You can add Andes mints or white chocolate chips or normal chocolate chips to add some variety.
Chocolate Cookie
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup olive oil
2/3 cup cocoa
1 cup brown sugar
1/4-1/3 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 cups flour, scant
Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and both sugars until light, add vanilla, then eggs, one at a time and mix well. Add the cocoa and mix again. Sift together flour, soda and salt and add to mixture until just combined. Drop on baking sheet using a 1 3/4-inch ice cream scoop or rounded Tbs. Dampen hands and flatten dough slightly. Bake at 350 for 7 1/2- 8 minutes. Do not bake them longer than 8 minutes. Trust me.
Sooooo, this recipe doesn’t make a ton, especially because I use the bigger cookie scoop, so the following frosting recipe is enough for 2 full batches, probably more
1 brick cream cheese (minus like 2 oz. because I randomly cut off the end to save for something else)
1 cube softened butter
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar
Also, I like to pipe it on the cookies like so, because it looks neater and is actually easier.
so, I got 32 cookies (16 sandwich cookies) out of a double batch. I put 8 cookies per sheet. I cut the sugar down to 3/4 brown and 1/4 white in the cookies, and to 1 cup in the frosting. I think the sugar can go down by another 50% in the frosting based off the carrot cake fine cooking recipe ratios.
ReplyDeleteDOUBLE THE BATCH. For me, I am totally fine with 2/3 cup of brown and 1/4 cup of white sugar. I did 1/2 cup in my frosting as well. Smash them down like it says or your cookies will be too tall.
ReplyDeleteI did 3 3/4 cup flour for a double batch and it worked well
ReplyDeleteYou get 60 small cookies for a double batch
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't do small cookies again. Bigger are better
ReplyDeleteDon't cut the sugar. Do 1 cup packed brown for a double batch. The peanut butter frosting needs way more peanut butter. Finally, bake 2 racks at a time and if you smash them I think they should go in for closer to 7 minutes.
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