Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

After I got back from Sacramento, my boyfriend and I wanted to make dessert together since we never do it. We only make dinner together...sometimes. I made him promise that he wouldn't eat all the oreos and he didn't! He had about 10 left and we made half the recipe. It combines two of his favorite things together - chocolate chip cookies and oreo cookies.

To be honest, I've had one of these cookies that my friend had made a year or two ago. It was so sweet and decadent and I decided I would put off making those for a while. Well, it was a while, and I wanted to see if I could make them for myself.

These were super easy to make and using a silpat and some parchment paper, we threw the recipe together in a couple of minutes. Putting the cookie together was the best party and we had a lot of fun doing that together. I think the next time, I'll make these with mini Oreos so that they don't come out like huge cookies that no one wants to eat. Instead, they'll be smaller with a little surprise in the middle!

Recipe:
Modified from Becky Bakes
1 sticks (1/2 cup) softened butter
3/8 cup or 6 Tablespoons packed brown sugar, light or dark
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large eggs
1 tablespoon pure vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup of chocolate chips
some Oreo cookies

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugars together with a mixer until well combined. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

In a separate bowl mix the flour, salt and baking soda. Slowly add to wet ingredients along with chocolate chips until just combined. Using a tablespoon take one scoop of cookie dough and place on top of an Oreo Cookie. Take another scoop of dough and place on bottom of Oreo cookie. Seal edges together by pressing and cupping in hand until Oreo cookie is enclosed with dough. Place onto a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet and bake cookies 9-13 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for 5 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.

Mississippi Mud Pie [Club Baked]

Yes, I was going to start baking again, and I have! One of my many New Years Resolutions is to bake (and cook) - at least once a week. This way I'll be improving my skills and providing wonderful treats to my friends in the Bay Area. I'll probably send a couple of cookies on the way to my friends in different countries and states which means I need your addresses and requests!

Anyways, back to this recipe. In the book it describes the Mississippi Mud Pie as a controversy so I decided to wiki it. Apparently on wikipedia, they only have the second version of the pie, with the dense cake and not this version.

This version has a nice cookie base, chocolate in the middle, ice cream, and some fudge on top! It's a nice delicious (and fattening) treat after a great dinner with my boyfriend. I used some Bailey's instead of whiskey, oreos instead of wafers for the base, and well, karamel sutra ice cream instead of coffee. I know it's not the same, but it was delicious regardless. I really enjoyed making this. I used about 1/6 of the recipe and ended up with three little pies in cupcake liners. I made these before I left for a business trip. I was gone for a week to Sacramento so it was great to eat dinner, drink wine, and talk to him. It's those little things in a relationship that really count.

PS. Thanks to Club Baked and Jess for this awesome pick!

Cookies and Cream Cupcakes [msc]

YAY! It's my month to host.

It's been super busy month, so I apologize for not getting this up earlier. I've just been working on school and getting everything done before they're due or needed. This semester so far has been about heartbreak, meeting new people, finding a job, doing well in school, and most of school, staying healthy.

This recipe was super easy to make and although there are still a few in the house, I've been controlling myself and not eating as much. My neighbors and roommate however, have been slightly worse at controlling themselves. It's okay though, the more they eat, the less I have to.

I really enjoyed the creaminess of the cheesecake on top, but the nice crunch of the oreo at the bottom and throughout the cake. I do wish that I could make them perfect by somehow making the Oreo cover the entire bottom of the cheesecake, that would have made it even better!

The recipe for this month's Cupcake Club is found on page 104-105 of Martha Stewart's Cupcake book.

Oreo Fudge Bars

These Oreo Fudge Bars were something I was actually debating whether or not I should give him. He's a huge chocolate person - he loves it, but fudge, that may be too rich for him. Oh well, I had lots of extras and when friends came over to pick stuff one, one of them renamed it Oreo Orgasm. I am not promoting that name, but apparently to them, it was really good!

Vanilla Oreo Cupcakes with Oreo Ice Cream

To celebrate my 100th post (this one's number 100!), I decided to make something REALLY special. Vanilla and oreos and ice cream - some of my FAVORITE things.

So I took Magnolia's vanilla cupcake recipe, cut it in half, added 12 oreos crushed. I ended up with 24 cupcakes still. Afterwards, I added cookies and cream ice cream on top and brought them for my friends to try. They liked them enough. I think that it wasnt the best, but it was still pretty good.

I was going to do a giveaway, but it's one of those things where the 100th post just crept up on me so quickly (and being super busy with school and extracurricular activities) and I havent had the time to think about what I wanted to give away. Oh well, 200th post I'll be sure to do something special!

Oreo Cupcakes

So my friend Alex couldn't eat real food, well because he was vegan for Lent. So he hasn't had my baking stuff for the past 40 days. It was really tempting for him, I'm sure. All the different things that I've made, but now since it's past Easter, he can finally eat things with eggs and meat in it. Eggs and butter mostly.
I decided to celebrate him finally eating food by baking him these Oreo Cupcakes. So the in the cupcake, it was a really dense chocolate thing, but I wanted something more light, I chose these chocolate sour cream cupcakes. I actually dont know how they'll taste together. They may not taste good together at all, but I guess we'll see.

The cupcake is from here. I've made these fluffy things before and they were pretty good.

The frosting, though, was something that I found online here with a couple of changes of my own.
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups heavy whipping cream
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 C of Oreo cookie crumbs

Directions:
Combine the whipping cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract.
Beat on medium-high speed until the whipped cream holds stiff peaks.
Gently fold in the cookie crumbs with a rubber spatula.
Pipe onto the cupcakes and garnish with Oreo halves.

Enjoy!

<3 Nina
PS pictures by dmitiry again. and that's me in the background in the first picture =)