Most ... and too Much

 Have y'all seen the Most Oreos? They're excessive.

I of course had to get and try them. 

And while they are delicious...there is just too much filling in there haha. My ideal Oreo is a Double Stuf. Perfect ratio of cream to cookie. 

Oreo Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies

Saturday night, baking night y'all. I have a million peppermint chip bags right now (more on that later) so I decided on something with peppermint. After scouring my Pinterest boards, I found a good one. Let's dive in.

2 boxes white cake mix 

2 stick butters, melted 

2 egg

1 tsp peppermint extract

1 tsp vanilla extract

8 oz cream cheese, softened

2 cup Peppermint Oreo cookie chunks (I reckon regular Oreos would work, but I had peppermint, so I used those)

2 cup Andes Peppermint chips

1 cup chocolate chips

Combine the cake mix, melted butter, egg, and extracts. Beat until a dough forms. Add the cream cheese and beat in gently until combined. Add the peppermint chips and chocolate chips first. Then gently stir in the cookie pieces by hand being careful not to break up the cookie more. Refrigerate dough for about 45 minutes. 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Using my cookie scoop, I scooped cookie dough of about a tablespoon onto a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet, so if you hand roll be careful, the dough is pretty sticky. Bake sheet at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. No less. Literally, they will not look cooked, but please, trust me, I am trusty. Let them sit on the hot cookie sheet for like, 5-8 minutes more (I'll be honest, I left them there until the next ones came out, I'm lazy) to finish cooking, and then move them to a wire rack. Let them chill on the rack until completely cool. Store in a sealed container. I think this made...like 50-something cookies. You could halve it for less, but I make many cookies, since many teenagers come to my house. 

And that's it! These are super delicious, and I recommend them. 

Golden Oreos

Today, I was making my customary Saturday night treat, and I had to use my frosting left over from last week’s apple pie cupcakes. I finally decided, why not just make some Oreo’s? So I made some yellow cake Oreo’s, and then used the brown sugar cinnamon frosting from last weekend. And then, I still had over half of my Oreos unfrosted, so I made a different frosting, Nutella buttercream. They were both really good!

I just love Oreo’s, they’re my go-to treat, and they’re super tasty all the time.

Oreo Oreos

I made some homemade Oreos this weekend, and boy are they easy. I don’t know if I’ve ever posted the recipe I do on here, but here goes:

2 boxes of chocolate cake mix (try to have two different ones, it makes it slightly more fun)
1 cup shortening
4 eggs

Mix all ingredients together, and then roll into tiny small balls, maybe an inch wide. Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes. When you take them out of the oven, drop the pan onto the countertop from a few inches up, this flattens the cookies. When completely cool, pair together and frost the middle.

So, there’s that, and here’s my super easy recipe for frosting:

1 stick butter
8 oz cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla
3-6 cups powdered sugar, depending on how much you need

Cream together the butter and cream cheese, throw in the vanilla as well. Then add powdered sugar until desired consistency.

So, after doing that, to make things a little differently, I put like, 15 regular store-bought Oreo’s in a food processor, and reduced them to crumbs. I threw these into the frosting, and voila:

Much deliciousness and amazingness. Make these, guys. I’ve done so many different frosting flavors with these lately, do that too, see what happens!

Oreo Cupcakes

We celebrated the July birthdays at work, and we decided to go the easy way of having cupcakes and ice cream. I volunteered to make the cupcakes, because of course I would. So I looked at my Pinterest boards, to see what kind of cupcakes I’ve been pinning, and I found a good one – Oreo Cupcakes. I was jazzed to try this new recipe out. When I got home from work, and was checking on my ingredient list, Husband told me an old friend of his was coming for dinner, which meant my time in the kitchen making cupcakes would be shorter, so to compromise, I just used a store bought vanilla cake mix to make my cupcakes, and then I’d make the recipe for frosting the girl gives.

So, I made my cupcakes, which were pretty good looking. I split the Oreos in half, and put one cookie on the bottom of the cupcake paper, and then but the batter in, and then baked it. Here’s what that looked like before I baked them:

Then I started making the frosting. Here’s the frosting recipe the website has:

8 Tbs butter
½ cup shortening
4 cups powdered sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
6 Tbs Oreo cookies, finely crushed

Now, do you see anything missing from this recipe? A wet ingredient, perhaps? I realized that as I was creaming the butter, that she didn’t give any indication of milk to be used. Does she just assume we’d add it ourselves? So, I did some guess work with the milk, adding a few tablespoons here, and then waiting, and so on and so forth. Then I added the crushed Oreos, and since I don’t have a food processor, mine were crushed by hand, and they were not that fine, which I guess is my own fault. Because of the chunks of Oreo cookies, I couldn’t get the frosting to pipe onto the cupcakes, no matter what I tried, so finally, I gave up, and just sort of slabbed the frosting onto the cupcakes, and they looked pretty awful. Here’s what the final product is:

So, I did try the cupcakes at this point, and while they did taste good, I’m so disappointed at how they look. Plus, I accidentally broke one of my frosting tips, trying to finagle the cookies out of there. So while I would make this recipe again, I think that I’d have to find a way to FINELY chop up my cookies.

Baking Fever

What was yesterday? Oh, Monday, that's right. Sadly I didn't make anything new, but I made a favorite that I really like. We had a birthday shindig at work today, so I made some treats for that. We were having ice cream sundaes, so I made brownies, and Chelle was in charge of bringing cookie bars. I made two batches of brownies. The first was good for sundaes, just plain brownies, perfect to be paired with ice cream and whatever else you wanted. The second ones were Oreo Brownies, the oldie but goodie. I took a pic of them side by side. I made the plain brownies more fudgey, so they'd be super good, and I made the Oreo ones more plain, so that it wouldn't be too rich or anything with the added sweets.

 Yum! Then after they cooled (it took forever it seemed!) I added the frosting and Oreo's.

And of course, I needed to make something for dinner. I was thinking that I needed to do something with hot dogs - I had a package of them I had opened a week prior, and the package says that they're best by date of: 1 week after you open them, which was yesterday. As I was sitting there, contemplating what to make, I got a text from Chelle, who was asking me some questions about the pizza rolls I made a bit ago. As I was telling her the directions, I realized they sounded delicious, but I didn't have any pepperoni left. You know what I did have, though? Hot dogs and crescent rolls.

So, I did like I did with the pepperoni ones, and just wrapped the hot dogs in the rolls. Some I cut in half, and some I left whole. (and yes, you do spy a rogue pepperoni in there - turns out we had like, 6 pepperoni's in the house, so we made just one, ha.) Cooked them for the same amount of time, and when they were done...

Delicious! I dipped them into some mustard, and some ketchup and they were simply divine. I recommend them to everyone. My bakings took me late into the night (10:10!) but I think it was all worth it in the end - I think everything turned out pretty well.