Oreo Cookies

This is the quick and easy recipe for homemade oreo cookies.

::Quick and easy Way::
1 package devil's food cake mix - I actually prefer using the German chocolate cake mix, the cookies always turn out better and the taste is much better. If you are going to use the German chocolate mix be sure to press cookies to slightly flatten them immediately after removing them from the oven.

2 eggs
1/2 cup oil (or butter flavored shortening)

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Roll dough into balls (a little larger than a quarter). Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on sheet (until warm). Remove cookies from sheet and place on cooling rack.

To assemble the cookies, in a pastry bag with a 1/2 inch, round tip (if you don't have a pastry bag or don't want to use it you can always use a zip lock bag with a round tip or just use a butter knife, I've used all three ways and they are all fine), pipe teaspoon-size blobs of filling into the center of one cookie (i like mine double stuffed so I put more than this). Place another cookie, equal in size to the first, on top of the filling. Lightly press, to work the filling evenly to the outsides of the cookie. Continue this process until all the cookies have been sandwiched with cream.

Dunk generously in a large glass of milk. Store in fridge (the filling has cream cheese and butter).

::Oreo cookie filling::
1 stick butter
1 block of cream cheese (8 ounces)
3-4 cups confectioner's sugar (depending on desired consistency)
1 tsp vanilla extract
*cream butter (about 2 mins). Add cream cheese and mix well. Add confectioner's sugar slowly until you reach your desired consistency. The thicker the better, but not too thick :).

::the REAL homemade oreos recipe::
Makes 25 to 30 sandwich cookies

For the chocolate cookies:
1¼ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup unsweetened Dutch process cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 to 1½ cups sugar*
½ cup plus 2 tablespoons (1¼ sticks) room-temperature, unsalted butter
1 large egg

*Set two racks in the middle of the oven. Preheat to 375 degrees.

*In a food processor, or bowl of an electric mixer, thoroughly mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda and powder, salt, and sugar. While pulsing, or on low speed, add the butter, and then the egg. Continue processing or mixing until dough comes together in a mass.

*Take rounded teaspoons of batter and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, or greased sheet, about 2 inches apart. Slightly flatten the dough. Bake for 9 minutes, rotating once for even baking. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool.

*Use filling recipe above