Tag: Oreos

Chocolate Oreo Cookie Dreams

Chocolate Oreo Cookie Dreams

Apparently these are awesome, because I ran out of cookies for our small groups at church tonight. Part of the reason is because Matt took a few on his road trip to A&M, but in general, I guess I just didn’t make enough cookies!!

I was craving Oreos earlier this week and bought a package to snack on. After I had my Oreo fix, I thought I’d use the leftover Oreos to make cookies for our monthly life group dinner.

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I’ve mentioned before that dream cookies are my all-time favorite cookie recipe. I guess my life group knows that, because I’ve gotten them hooked on dreams as well and they hope I bring them each month!

“Dream” cookies are extremely soft and chewy cookies with a secret ingredient: instant pudding mix. The pudding mix makes them super soft. After a week, they would still taste as fresh as they did on day one…. except they normally don’t last past two days.

Chocolate Oreo Cookie Dreams

You can literally make hundreds of combination of dream cookies. Simply change out the instant pudding mix and use various add-ins. Below are some of the dreams I’ve made before:

Chocolate Oreo Cookie Dreams

Now to add to the list will be these Chocolate Oreo Cookie Dreams! I will warn you, they are sweet! Basically you are eating a cookie within a cookie. 🙂 You could use regular Oreo cookies, but Double Stuf yields larger chunks and more of a cream-filled center.

As I said, my church group loved them. Unfortunately Robin, Molly and Penny were the only three girls that didn’t get to try them. We were all talking and eating our dinner leisurely and didn’t realize the group (the boys “a-hem”) finished them off!

I told them next time I’ll make two batches of dreams. Maybe I’ll even try a new rendition of them, and add M&Ms or some other candy bar.

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Chocolate Oreo Cookie Dreams

Chocolate Oreo Cookie Dreams

Feel free to add and substitute for whatever pudding and toppings of your choice. It might be fun to try an instant Oreo pudding mix. I used chocolate because that is all I had in the pantry. Enjoy!

Chocolate Oreo Cookie Dreams
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Serves: 3 dozen
Ingredients
  • 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 package (3.9 oz) instant chocolate pudding mix
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1 cup packed light brown sugar (I used 2/3 cup light brown and 1/3 cup dark brown, but I think I like the taste of all light brown sugar best).
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped Double Stuf Oreo cookies
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  2. In a bowl, whisk together flour, pudding mix, baking powder, soda and salt until well combined. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, cream butter, shortening, and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Scrape down sides of bowl.
  4. On low speed or using a wooden spoon, gradually add flour mixture, beating just until blended. By hand, fold in Oreos.
  5. Using a cookie scoop or spoons, drop tablespoonfuls (15 mL) of dough about 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets. Bake one sheet at a time in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes or until set around the edges, but slightly soft in the center.
  6. Immediately slide parchment paper onto a wire cooling rack. Cool cookies for 5 minutes, then transfer from parchment paper to cooling rack and cool completely.

 

White Chocolate-Dipped Oreos

white chocolate dipped Oreos

Talk about a good dog!! I know everyone says they have the best dog in the world, but does your dog have as much patience as Skippy, our 10-year old chihuahua, pictured above?

I mean, talk about self control! Look at Skippy….just eying the cookies. Waiting patiently for the cookie he will never get. They say chocolate can kill dogs, but if it did, Skippy would not be alive to this day!

Four years ago when I was teaching school, my students gave me a few bags of candy for an upcoming holiday (it was either Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or my birthday…unfortunately I can’t remember). In the clear, cellophane-wrapped bags were Hershey’s Kisses, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and M&Ms…. all chocolate!

Well, I put the candy in my school bag, and when I got home, I placed my school bag where I placed it every day – tucked away in the corner near the kitchen table.

It was a Friday night and Matt and I went out to eat as we always do on Friday nights. When we came home, you’d thought someone had broken in with all the mess that was on the floor! There were silver Hershey’s Kisses wrappers and brown Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup wrappers torn up in a thousand little bitty pieces scattered all across the floor.

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#tbt This picture is from 2008, before Matt and I were married. Look how young we all look!

 

And then there was Skippy. His face pled guilty all over! While we were out, he had gone through my school bag, opened the cellophane bag containing all the candy and then proceeded to open and eat nearly 3/4ths of my holiday candy!

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Guilty face…
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Cute face…

 

Not only was I upset that Skippy ate the good stuff…there were no Reese’s left…. I was also upset that he would die from since “chocolate kills dogs”.  Fortunately Skippy survived. 🙂 Not only did he NOT get sick, but he didn’t even have an upset stomach!

If you know Skippy,  you’ve heard that he LOVES peanut butter…hence the name “Skippy” peanut butter right? lol. (We adopted him and his name was already Skippy). I think he smelled the peanut butter in the Reese’s and just couldn’t resist….plus he was bored, apparently.

While Skippy is extremely obedient in person, (hence not eating the Oreos in the picture above), he is revengeful behind your back. He will act up when you are not around, so watch out!

Anyways, if you’re a white chocolate and Oreo cookie fan, you’ll love these White Chocolate-Dipped Oreo cookies. I know they sell these pre-dipped at the store, but the homemade version is so much better.

white chocolate dipped Oreos
Melt your white chocolate bark (or vanilla almond bark) in a microwave. Dip 3/4 of the Oreo cookie in the white chocolate and place on parchment paper.

 

Using whatever you have on-hand, you can decorate with any colored sprinkles while the chocolate is setting up.

white chocolate dipped Oreos
While cookies set, decorate with colored-sprinkles of your choice.

 

I made these for the 2014 Super Bowl party that we hosted and they were a hit. Super simple and super popular. Enjoy!

white chocolate dipped Oreos

 

White Chocolate-Dipped Oreos
Serves: 50 cookies
Ingredients
  • 1 (14.3 oz) package Nabisco Oreo sandwich cookies
  • 1 package Vanilla Flavored Almond Bark (I used Kroger’s brand)
  • Decorative sprinkles of your choice
Instructions
  1. Melt vanilla flavored almond bark according to package directions. I melted the bark via the microwave.
  2. Dip three-fourths of an Oreo cookie into the bark and place on parchment paper to set and cool. Repeat until you use all Oreo cookies.
  3. While the cookies are setting up, decorate using colored sprinkles of your choice. I used black sprinkles.

 

Chocolate Chip Oreo Cookies

At church, when someone has a baby, a sign-up list goes out asking for volunteers to bring them meals for dinner. It makes life easier on these couples, and since I LOVE to bake, I had no problem signing up to bring dinner. Even though it was 70 degrees this weekend in Dallas, the temperature dropped and it never made it out of the low 50s the next day. With the cool front that rolled it, I thought it fitting to bring over taco soup and perfect cornbread to my friends (and new parents) at my church.
I had debated on what dessert I should make for them all day. I had narrowed it down to coconut chocolate chip bars…until I talked to my sister. For those of you who don’t know, my sister is an extremely talented baker! She bakes sweets for the entire Oklahoma State cross country team before each one of their races. As I was telling her my cooking plans, she mentioned some chocolate chip Oreo cookies (from the Picky Palate blog) that she made for her fiance, Colby.
Colby, like me, LOVES Oreo cookies! He likes the double-stuffed kind, the regular, the inside-out version…any kind of Oreo.  Despite his love for the black and white cookie (and cotton candy), Colby does not like sweets…weird…but probably a good thing! 🙂 However, this past year, my sister has been working on getting him to eat more desserts, especially cookies. When she told me that he ate SIX of these chocolate chip Oreo cookies, I knew they must be delicious. Colby normally eats one to two cookies at a time, not six!
Let me know what you think of these. It is the perfect combination of cookie and Oreo, and satisfies both cravings. The Oreos add a slight crunch, as well as contributes to a more chocolately, chocolate chip cookie. Enjoy!
After combine ingredients, gently fold in Oreos and chocolate chips.

Using a medium-sized cookie scooper, place dough onto prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 mintues at 350 degrees F.

Let cool on baking sheet for 3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Serve with a tall glass of milk, like you would a plain ‘ole Oreo cookie!

Chocolate Chip Oreo Cookies
Ingredients
1/2 cup (1 stick) softened butter
6 Tbsp. sugar
6 Tbsp. brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp. baking soday
1/2 tsp. salt
8 broken pieces Oreo cookies (we used regular Oreos, NOT double-stuff)
1 cup chocolate chips

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream butter and sugars until well combined. Add egg and vanilla until mixed well.
2. Place flour, baking soda and salt into a large bowl, stir to combine. Slowly add dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Stir in Oreos and chocolate chips until just combined.
3. With a medium cookie scoop, scoop onto a parchment or silpat-lined baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until cooked, but still soft.
4. Let cook on baking sheet for 3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

Yield: 2 dozen
Recipe from: Picky Palate

This recipe is featured on Tuesday Tutorials Link Party {No. 20} at The Kurtz Corner