It is not that Oreos are even my favorite snack cookie (vanilla wafers, hey). I wanted to experiment with making a chocolate sugar cookie and I am really into with this one. Feel free to lose the icing and enjoy them individually. I completely prefer these to the store bought kind and think even a devoted Oreo consumer would agree. (Warm from the oven is hard to compete with.) And they are just cute. Seriously though, try them.
HOMEMADE OREOS
Serves 12 sandwich cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 batch vanilla buttercream frosting
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a stand mixer, mix together butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Add eggs, salt, and vanilla and continue to mix. In a separate bowl, stir together baking powder, flour, and cocoa. Slowly incorporate dry ingredients into stand mixer. Shape dough into 1 and 1/2 inch balls. Press to slightly flatten and arrange on a lined baking sheet. Bake for 7-9 minutes. Allow cookies to cool. Spread frosting over flat side of one cookie and press another cookie to attach.
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3 cups flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 batch vanilla buttercream frosting
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a stand mixer, mix together butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Add eggs, salt, and vanilla and continue to mix.
- In a separate bowl, stir together baking powder, flour, and cocoa. Slowly incorporate dry ingredients into stand mixer.
- Shape dough into 1 and ½ inch balls. Press to slightly flatten and arrange on a lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 7-9 minutes. Allow cookies to cool.
- Spread frosting over flat side of one cookie and press another cookie to attach.