Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

I don't really know what to call these. They exist in the baking world, they're not an original idea of mine, but what on earth do you call them? My initial thought went to the movie Inception. I don't think my brain can take the amount of screwing-over this movie allegedly provides, but I've heard of the whole "dream within a dream" thing and how  "x within a x" has itself become a "thing." And that's exactly what this is! A cookie within a cookie, cookieception if you will.

These are unashamedly... shall we say, indulgent. I appreciate a more euphemistic tone over "food that will make you fat and stuff." These are living proof that it is in fact possible to make chocolate chip cookies/oreos even better than they already are, and aren't all that difficult to make.

The recipe I used was the same chocolate chip cookie dough as one featured in one of my other posts, I'll post it again anyway, though.

There isn't much else to say about these so here's the recipe!

Chocolate Chip Cookies (Adapted from spicy icecream)

• 240g (approx two scant cups) plain flour
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp sea salt (table salt is fine)
• 140g soft unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 110g (just over half a cup) caster sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 tsp vanilla essence
• 250g milk chocolate chips

Additionally

• One packet of oreos

1.  In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and baking powder.
2. In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy (around 3-5 minutes) with an electric mixer on medium speed.
3. Add in the egg, mixing until it is well incorporated.
4. Add the vanilla and mix briefly to combine.
5. Add half the flour mixture, mixing on low speed to combine.
6. Repeat with remaining flour mixture.
7. Fold in the chocolate chips with a large metal spoon.
8. Form the mixture into a dough with your hands, ensuring the chocolate chips are well distributed throughout the dough.
9.  Roll the dough into a large ball, wrap twice in cling wrap and place in the fridge to chill for at least twenty minutes.
10. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 175 degrees and roll the dough out into a cylinder with your hands.
11.  Using a sharp knife, cut off two small portions of dough; enough to encase your oreo.
12. Sandwich the oreo in between the two pieces of dough, pushing it all together so that the oreo is completely covered and no longer visible.
13. Repeat with remaining dough/oreos, placing them on a greased and lined baking tray with enough room for the cookies to spread.
14. Bake in the oven for approximately fifteen minutes or until the cookies are golden brown.
15. Cool cookies in baking tray for five minutes, before easing them off the baking paper and placing on a wire rack to cool completely.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

There are photos at the end, I promise! 

I don't have much to say about this recipe, chocolate chip cookies kinda speak for themselves, don't they?

This recipe was adapted from the "Foolproof Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe" from raspberri cupcakes. Putting the word "foolproof" in the recipe's title is a big call, and I've had issues with recipes from this blog before so I was a tad anxious.However, the recipe looked easy enough, and the cookies did in fact turn out very well.

I'm yet to meet a person who isn't sold on the deliciousness of Subway Cookies, and I, like many others, have found myself converted to soft, chewy cookies over the crunchy ones. These cookies can be baked for longer to make them crunchy, or taken out of the oven when they are just cooked to keep them chewy/soft.

The recipe on the blog speaks the truth - the cookies will spread quite a bit. I made some of mine too big and ran out of space on the trays, so some of them did get stuck together.

I also had some issues where greasing was concerned. If you're Indian (or Fijian-Indian like me), you should (almost) definitely be familiar with ghee, which is clarified butter. My mum brushes it onto her rotis, and since her little ghee tin is next to the pastry brush I use to grease my pans, I usually just use the ghee in place of butter. However, we're temporarily out of ghee, meaning I had to use normal butter. The difference the ghee makes was very noticable as most of the cookies were stuck firmly onto the butter-greased baking paper, resulting in cookies with imcomplete looking undersides when I finally pried them off the paper. Hopefully my dad will make another trip to one of the random "Fijian/Indian/Sri Lankan/Pacific Island" shops in the area before I attempt my next batch..

The cookies were still tasty, though, and I shall leave you with the recipe and some.... photos.

(Adapted from raspberri cupcakes' Foolproof Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

• 125g butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cups tightly packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 egg lightly beaten
• 1 1/2 cups plain flour, sifted
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and  line two large baking trays with greased baking paper.
2. Beat the sugar and butter with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
3. Stir in the vanilla and egg until just combined.
4. Stir in the flour and baking powder until just combined.
5. Fold the chocolate chips through the mixture, aiming to distribute as evenly throughout the mixture as possible.
6. Place heaped teaspoons of mixture onto the baking trays.Ensure there is plenty of space for them to be able to spread while cooking!
7. Cook for 10-15 minutes, or until cookies turn golden (or golden brown if you want a crunchier cookie).
8. Allow to cool in trays before transferring cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.

The photos I post are never anything special, they're more just to show what my end product looked like for these posts. This recipe yielded even worse photos than usual, as I only remembered to take a photo for the blog when I had individually wrapped a bunch of them a few minutes before I had to go to school. Soz guise.

 

Oh, and there's also this photo from when they were in the oven. Yep, oven light just helps the whole photo reach a new level of amazingness (*Cough*). Aw come on, you know what a chocolate chip cookie looks like. I'm just here to talk.