Cookies and Cream Cookies
Happy Sunday to you, friends! I hope your day has started with a joyful heart and a healthy amount of coffee. Today I’m sharing a little early morning entertainment along with a simple recipe for these crowd pleasing cookies and cream cookies. If you’re into cookies stuffed with more cookies, this is the obnoxious treat you’ll want to check out today. But first, let’s get into the morning round-up!
Kids Try 100 Years of Thanksgiving Sides
Bon Appétit has started a video series in which they film young kids trying new foods. In this episode, the kids taste test traditional Thanksgiving side dishes from the early 1900’s to present day. The results are hilarious and I can only imagine what my kiddos would say if I offered them oyster shooters or peanut soup. HA!
Family Dinner, Redefined
In my house, mealtimes are often a joke. It’s a tabletop war zone of flying carrots and machine-gunned peas. This article from Epicurious lists 18 practical ways to make dinnertime a bit less insane. I can already say that I’ll be getting on board with numbers 7, 8, and 14. Give it a read!
Julia Roberts’ Film Career in Less Than 10 Minutes
Ok, it wouldn’t be a Sunday round-up without a little James Corden. Here, he helps Julia Roberts act out HER ENTIRE FILM CAREER (!?!?!) in a short span of 10 minutes. It’s pretty clever and reminded me that I need to dust off a few VHS tapes that I’ve got in storage. Run Away Bride, anyone?
17 Restaurants Worth Planning a Trip Around
The folks at Travel + Leisure know their stuff when it comes to exploring new hot spots. In this article, they’ve outlined a list of 17 restaurants that are worth hopping a flight for. I’ve only been to one on the list, but there’s several that I’m dying to try. Have you been to any of these? Are they worth the hype?
Make-Ahead Thanksgiving Sides
You’re busy, I know. So let’s keep simplifying our life and cut out some of that Thanksgiving day stress, shall we? Food52 has complied a list of freezer-friendly sides that you could literally make today and reheat come Thanksgiving day. This is like the fairy godmother of meal planning, so make a point of checking it out.
People Will Buy Anything
And this week on “People Will Buy Anything,” my favorite store, Madewell, has begun stocking Carhartt. Yes, Carhartt- the durable workwear brand that people like my husband wear. You know, the pants that are as thick as a piece of canvas-wrapped cardboard and require about 3 yards of fabric to make? The ones that have approximately 27 pockets and 3 hammer loops? Yes, those pants. Madewell was really scraping the bottom of the barrel when they started stocking Carhartt. If I spend OVER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS on a sweatshirt anytime soon, you can bet it won’t be a quality item I could pick up at the hardware store. Now this sweatshirt on the other hand… this I’d wear.
Cookies and Cream Cookies
Okay, lets talk coooookieees! What is not to be thrilled about when you’re talking Oreo and white chocolate chip filled cookies!? This is the stuff dreams are made of! These cookies and cream cookies are a cinch to make and are a treat that literally anyone can rally behind. Unless, of course, you’re the person who doesn’t like cookies, in which case, WHO EVEN ARE YOU?
Making the Cookies
To make them, we start the usual way. Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Add eggs and vanilla, scraping the sides of the bowl to ensure everything is getting well incorporated. Next comes the dry ingredients- flour, salt, and leavening. Once your dough has been prepared, we add the mix-ins.
This recipe calls for a couple cups worth of chopped Oreos. It’s important to not reduce your Oreos to a fine crumb, otherwise your dough will be way too dry and crumbly. No bueno. Instead, keep a 1/2″chop on your Oreos and get excited to have a teensy bit of crunch in every bite of these cookies and cream cookies. The white chocolate chips and Oreos get stirred in before balls of dough are baked in the oven.
These cookies and cream cookies are fab on their own. I see no further treatment necessary. BUT! If you’re feeling ultra-sassy, why not whip up a sweet frosting to make sandwich cookies. Yes, then they’d be sandwich cookies stuffed with sandwich cookies, and I totally understand if that’s the kid of thing that makes your mind explode.
Truth be told, the cream-filled cookies and cream cookies are next-level sweet. If you like your sugary desserts extra-sweet then the cream filling is right up your alley, otherwise just stick with the regular old cookies and cream cookies and save those extra calories for later. Because health.
Happy Sunday to y’all! Give these cookies and cream cookies a shot and let me know what you think!
If you like these cookies and cream cookies, you should check out:
Mint Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
Candied Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
PrintCookies and Cream Cookies
These cookies and cream cookies are soft and chewy, Oreo cookie stuffed cookies with white chocolate chips!
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 25
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 30
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- ½ cup (113 gm) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- ¾ cup (150 gm) brown sugar
- ¾ (150 gm) cup sugar
- 1–1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 large eggs
- 2–1/4 (270 gm) cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup (180 gm) white chocolate chips
- 2 cups (360 gm) roughly crushed Oreos or chocolate sandwich cookies
For the filling:
- 6 tablespoons 85 gm) unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1/2 cup (113 gm) shortening
- 3 cups (375 gm) confectioner’s sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare two baking sheets by covering them with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer or a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, sugar, and vanilla on medium speed until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Scrape the sides of the bowl and add the eggs one at a time, beating on low until combined. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking soda and then add this mixture to the butter and sugar. Stir on low just until combined. Scrape the sides of the bowl and then fold in or stir on low the white chocolate chips and Oreo pieces (see notes).
- Scoop out 3 tablespoon sized balls of dough (I used a large cookie scoop) for large cookies or 1-1/2 tablespoon sized balls of dough (medium cookie scoop) for smaller cookies. Roll the balls quickly in your hands for smooth cookies. Space out dough balls three inches apart (2 inches if using smaller dough balls) on the baking sheet and bake in the oven for about 10-12 minutes (9-10 minutes for smaller dough balls), or until the edges are set and the centers are beginning to set. The cookies may look slightly underdone when you pull them out of the oven. Allow to cool briefly before enjoying!
For the filling:
- To prepare the optional filling, cream together the butter and shortening in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the confectioner’s sugar and vanilla and mix on low until incorporated. Increase the speed to medium and beat until smooth and creamy. You can add a bit of milk or water to thin out if desired. Spread the filling in between two cookies and sandwich together!
Notes
- I used a combination of roughly chopped Oreos and smaller crumbled Oreos for these cookies. With a finer crumb, the cookies appear darker, but the larger chunks of Oreo give you a crunchy bite of sandwich cookie in every cookies.
- If you use a bit too much finely crumbed Oreos, the dough may seem a little dry. The cookies will still taste great, but the texture and spreadability of the cookies will differ. Give them a gentle pat as they come out of the oven if they didn’t spread enough for your liking.
- You can substitute milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips here, but I prefer the white chocolate.
- If your butter is too soft or if you dough becomes too soft/wet prior to baking, you can firm your dough in the fridge briefly. I usually do a test bake of cookies by baking 3 or 4 cookies on a baking sheet to see if they turn out how I want. If the cookies spread too much, I chill the remaining dough for a few minutes. If they don’t spread as much as I’d like, I keep the dough of the fridge and gently press my dough balls down a bit.
