Last week when I was shopping for fruits and vegetables at the green market with my visiting friend we discovered the stand of a chocolate seller. The man was selling the whole range of Milka chocolate bars.
You must know that I am a chocoholic, and unfortunately the local brands don’t please me so much. Back home I usually buy Côte d’Or because it is my absolute favorite. So discovering something that hits at least closer to my favorite chocolate brand was great. Having a closer look we even discovered that they sell bars with Oreo filling! We considered it our lucky day, and just before my friend was heading back to Luxembourg, we returned to said stall and bought quite a few bars.
Each of us, not later than the next day, found out how delicious it is. So here I was, one craving satisfied, I found myself already longing for the next treat. I wanted Oreos! But they are nowhere to be found over here, so I thought I’d bake some myself.
Oreo cookies are the best-selling cookies in the world, and according to me for a very good reason so I won’t lie to you. These cookies don’t taste exactly the same. BUT the combination of the bittersweet & chocolatey cookies and the milky vanilla filling is guaranteed. You can either enjoy them crunchy or dip them into a huge glass of cold milk just like the original. This is actually my favorite way to savor them.
Why you’ll love this recipe?
Rich chocolatey flavour: The deep cocoa flavour in the cookies is even more intense than store-bought Oreos, making each bite a chocolate lover’s dream.
Creamy filling: The filling is perfectly sweet and creamy, and you can even adjust the flavour or sweetness make it just right for your taste.
Fun to make and share: Baking these cookies from scratch adds a fun, hands-on element, and they’re perfect for sharing with family and friends as a thoughtful, homemade treat.
Perfect treat: With their deliciously chocolatey cookies and smooth filling, these homemade Oreos make an ideal dessert snack to enjoy after a meal or with a cup of coffee.
Homemade Oreos
Ingredients
Cookies
- 125 g butter
- 180 g sugar
- 150 g flour
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 50 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
Filling
- 60 g butter
- 250 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 180°
- In a large bowl mix the butter and the sugar first until the mixture gets pale and fluffy.
- Then add the vanilla extract and the egg and mix again until you get an even dough.
- Now you can add the flour, the baking powder and the cocoa powder. Mix until the dough gets an even dark brown color.
- Roll rounded teaspoons of dough into balls, and place onto a baking sheet.
- Try to flatten the cookies as much as possible. The cookies should have the same size as you will fill the vanilla cream in between.
- Bake for 9 minutes, rotating once for even baking. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool.
- Repeat until the entire dough is gone.
Filling
- To make the cream put the softened butter into a mixing bowl. Gradually beat in the icing sugar and vanilla extract.
- After the cookies cooled down fill the cream into a pastry bag (round tip) and pipe teaspoon-size blobs of cream into the center of one cookie.
- Now lightly press another cookie to the first in order to evenly work the filling to the outsides of the cookie.
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