Peppermint Oreos

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Happy Friday!! Do you know what today is? My first ever Guest Post on a blog!! I couldn’t be happier to be posting for the wonderful Chef Dennis at A Culinary Journey. I was lucky to meet Dennis at the Foodbuzz Festival last month and since then I’ve been looking forward to an opportunity to contribute to his wonderful site.

Can you believe Christmas is almost two weeks away? I can’t. I haven’t bought a gift or sang a carol! This needs to change. I have however been baking a bazillion cookies! Are you surprised that I’m making yet another version of Homemade Oreos? These are essentially the same recipe as those, but with crushed candy canes on top and a delicious minty filling. So make sure you say Hello to Chef Dennis!

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Peppermint Oreos
makes 25-30 sandwich cookies
Ingredients
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch process cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 to 1 1/2 cups sugar (depending on how sweet you want the cookies- I used 1 cup.)
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) room-temperature, unsalted butter
1 large egg
2 Crushed Candy Canes

Filling
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) room-temperature, unsalted butter
1/4 cup vegetable shortening (I used the Spectrum Organics Brand I’ve mentioned before.)
2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
A few drops of peppermint extract (the stuff I have is strong so I can’t use too much, I’d mix it in gradually until it’s the right level of minty-ness)
Green food coloring (optional)

Instructions
1.Set two racks in the middle of the oven. Preheat to 375°F.
2. In a food processor, or bowl of an electric mixer, thoroughly mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda and powder, salt, and sugar. While pulsing, or on low speed, add the butter, and then the egg. Continue processing or mixing until dough comes together in a mass.
3. Take rounded teaspoons of batter and dip the tops in crushed candy canes. Place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet approximately two inches apart. (These cookies will spread a lot so give them plenty of room!) Bake for 8-11 minutes, rotating once for even baking. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool.
4. To make the cream, place butter and shortening in a mixing bowl, and at low speed, gradually beat in the sugar and mint extract. Turn the mixer on high and beat for 2 to 3 minutes until filling is light and fluffy.
5. To assemble the cookies, in a pastry bag with a 1/2 inch, round tip, pipe cream into the center of one cookie. Place another cookie, equal in size to the first, on top of the cream. Lightly press, to work the filling evenly to the outsides of the cookie. Continue this process until all the cookies have been sandwiched with cream.

Recipe adapted from “Retro Desserts” by Wayne Brachman

9 Comments

  1. Chef Dennis says:

    Hi Audra

    Those oreos are gorgeous!
    thanks so much for all your hard work and such a delicious guest post!
    Dennis

  2. RavieNomNoms says:

    I would LOVE these!!

  3. It was so fun to find you on Chef Dennis’ blog today! My Oreo addicted family would adore these cookies! Thanks for sharing!!!

  4. mmm mint creme oreos are my absolute favorite! so happy to see your homemade version on here. great guest post! have an awesome weekend :)

  5. One can certainly never have too many homemade oreos in their life! I’ve been meaning to pick up a pack of the mint creme ones…but why buy them when I can cover my whole kitchen in flour and make my own! I wouldn’t ahve it any other way. these look amazing.

  6. These look delicious. Off to see you over at Chef Dennis’s now.

  7. These look so good! I found a homemade oreo recipe a while back and added a layer of peanut butter frosting in in the middle over the cream and they were awesome. Very rich but really good! Can’t wait to try this one!

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