Homemade Oreos

These are huge crowd pleasers and surprisingly easy to make.

The cookie is basically a slice and bake style and though there is chilling time involved, the dough is very quick and easy to make without any heavy equipment or specialty chocolate requirements. In fact, it comes together much like a saucepan brownie: dry ingredients are stirred into a mixture of melted chocolate chips, butter, sugar and eggs. I find it easier to work with the dough in 2 batches, making logs ~1 ½â€ in diameter using the cardboard rolls from paper towels to help shape them and also to help them retain their round shape while refrigerated.

The filling is a standard American buttercream of butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and milk.

On their own, the cookie and filling are not fabulous “ the cookie is a little bitter and the filling is very sweet - but together, they are fabulous.

With the smaller sized cookie, they bake in 18 minutes and yield 30 sandwiches.