The World is falling to ruin and Cheshire's off his Tea

We had a casual little tea party in our student house and one of the biscuits in the collection were these little beauties: Home-made Oreo cookies which also look kinda like American Whoopie cakes but I'm going with Oreo cookies.

They were such a success, so tasty and satisfying and so much fun to make, that I thought I'd share how to make them and post the recipe.

I spent the morning making the chocolate biscuits and then whilst they were cooling down I made the vanilla icing and sat down to watch Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (thus the Cheshire cat reference) while I assembled the cookies.
The tea party was brilliant and needless to say I ate far too much cake, but it was definitely worth it.




 
Oreo Cookies recipe:
Ingredients for the cookies:
1 1/4 cups Plain Flour
1/2 cup Cocoa Powder
1 1/4 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1 cup Sugar
1/2 cup + 2 tbsp Butter
1 Egg, beaten

For the filling:
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
1/2 cup Butter, softened
1 cup Icing Sugar
1-2 tbsp Milk

(To make around 16-20 cookies)

(Adjust the amount of salt in your cookies, I like mine quite salty like the real biscuit but that's not to everybody's taste)

Method:
  1. Combine all of the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
  2. Add the butter, you may need to rub the ingredients together using your fingers to begin with and then mix thoroughly together with a spoon.
  3. Last add in the beaten egg until all the ingredients are thoroughly combined, you should have a mixture which is a more solid consistency then cake batter and which holds its shape.
  4. Take small balls of the mixture, about the size of a 50 pence piece and place them on a baking tray lined with baking parchment, flattening the cookie dough slightly with the palm of your hand.
  5. Cook at 180 for 9 minutes, your cookies will still be soft when you remove them from the oven but leave to solidify and cool down.
  6. Mix together your ingredients for the icing whilst the cookies are cooling.
  7. When both of your seperate elements are made, begin assembling your oreos with a generous dollop of icing between two biscuits.
  8. Serve with a glass of milk
Enjoy!