homemade oreos! [recipe review]

iesi'm kind of a cookie fiend. and a cupcake fiend. and, well, if it tastes good, i'll eat it. and lots of it.

i tried my hand at homemade oreos the other day (pre-job, of course- back in the days where i had 9 hours to myself in the kitchen monday through friday.)

aaanyway. oreos. i'd give them a 3.5 out of 5 stars (hubs gives them 4 out of 5). they were tasty, yes. but if i'm going to put a whole day's worth of work into something, i want it to be delectable. these were just 'pretty good.'

the dough was tasty. i didn't have the right kind of cocoa the recipe calls for, which is probably why my cookies only somewhat resembled the taste of from-the-bag oreos. actually cutting out the cookies, though, involved multiple rollings out of the dough between sheets of parchment paper/ tinfoil, cutting them out with biscuit cutters, flouring them up and repeating.

the frosting was simple- a nice break from the work behind the cookies themselves. it didn't taste quite as i hoped.

the best, most oreo-like cookies were the ones i baked on my pizza stone. these were also the ones that stayed oreo sized- the ones baked on my cookie sheet got a little monstrous.

in sum, if you're looking for something that tastes like you bought it at the store, don't bother. if you're up for a long day in the kitchen and like a challenge, try your hand at it (and let me know what you did to make them taste like they're from the bag!)  i'm not sad i made these little cookies, but i probably won't make them again. [they were a LOT of work.] i'm not a good tweaker, but if i were i might try at making both the cookies and the frosting a little more "authentic" tasting.

recipe can be found here, at beantownbaker.

*kandyce in denver, CO