Milk's...and Mike's Favorite Cookie

Keeping in line with the theme of cookies that take forever to make - here's another recipe that took me multiple days (and help from someone else) to make: HOMEMADE OREOS!

This year for Christmas we thought for our stockings, we would do homemade gifts ($10 or less). My husband’s favorite cookies are oreos so I thought making a homemade version would be the perfect gift for his stocking.

Day 1: bought all of the ingredients needed to make my cookies

Day 2: too lazy to make them

Day 3: too lazy to make them

Day 4: still too lazy to make them

Day 5: oh shit, it’s christmas eve!

Christmas eve night, at about 10pm, my sister and I started making the dough and the filling. It wasn’t as difficult as I had imagined although I think it would be easier and faster the next time I make these (and I definitely will make these again). The dough was very quick to put together, especially on my kitchenaid mixer (seriously, I love that thing!) Make sure you use dutch process cocoa powder, which for some reason I did happen to already have on hand. It’s different than regular cocoa powder as the dutch processed kind is darker and lends to that oreo cookie taste vs a chocolate cookie.

While I wrapped up the cookie dough in parchment paper (since I never seem to have plastic wrap), my sister whipped up the filling. We used 3 cups of powdered sugar instead of 3/12 and I think next time I would maybe a half cup less assuming it didn’t affect the texture of the filling. Making the dough and the filling took us about an hour.

You’re supposed to chill the dough for an hour in the fridge, but since it was so late we put the dough and the filling in the fridge overnight. The next morning, I had to let the dough sit out a bit so it wasn’t so hard and I would be able to roll it out. Of course, I couldn’t find a rolling pin. I looked in all the drawers and even checked some boxes in the garage. I found a can and I was going to use that. Then my husband walked in with this look like, what are you crazies doing with that can? He suggested we use a wine bottle. I just started using it when my sister opened up our silverware drawer and the rolling pin was there in the whole time. Oops - only like 30 minutes wasted.

We rolled out the dough, cut the cookies, and baked them. To make the cookies crispy, I let them cool in the oven. Then we assembled the cookies - way easier than the samoas I made. For half of the cookies I put peppermint crystals in the filling. The cookies were AWESOME! I loved them and more importantly, my husband loved them (so much that he hid a few of them so that all the guests wouldn’t eat them all). Even my dad, who doesn’t like dessert ate one with ice cream.

This one is definitely a win.

Check it out here: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/419749627745173287/

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