This recipe needs no introduction. It’s a homemade mint oreo. What more do I need to say? It’s happy, happy, delicious, happiness – perfect for a holiday gathering.
Besides the fact that these are made with whole food ingredients, perhaps the most exciting bragging point of these cookies is this: After you eat one of these, you can smile at your friends without fear of having “oreo teeth.” You know what I’m talking about, right? Oh my goodness.
Allow me to introduce you to your new friend:
Homemade Oreo Cookies
1 cup melted butter
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 cup sucanat or brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups whole wheat flour (less or more as needed)
Stir together melted butter, cocoa powder, and sucanat. Add eggs, baking soda, salt, and vanilla until well combined. Stir in flour. Use a cookie scoop to place cookie dough two inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes in a 350° oven. Once the cookies have cooled, use the following filling recipe to create cookie sandwiches.
Filling
3 cups unbleached powdered sugar (more or less as needed)
2 Tablespoons melted butter
4 Tablespoons milk (more or less as needed)
Sprinkle of sea salt
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
Mix all ingredients together with a hand mixer until smooth and it has reached desired consistency. Spread filling onto cookies to form sandwiches like oreos.
Makes about 25 Mint Oreo Cookie Sandwiches. Want just a “plain” oreo? Simply leave out the peppermint extract in the filling recipe.
I literally had a package of Newman’s Own “oreos” in my hand today when I reluctantly talked myself out of them! Yay for your recipe! Can’t wait to try it.
If you added spinach ;), it would make your mint filling a nice pretty shade of mint green!! Ha ha!
Oh, my!!!! Your timing is perfect!! My daughter was just asking if we had a chocolate mint cookie recipe to take to a church Christmas party on Sunday. We may just have to do a trial run this week to make sure they turn out ok before making them for Sunday!! Be still my Oreo loving heart………and it just so happens that the mint Oreo variety are my favorite. Thanks for sharing!!
I started making homemade Oreos when I gave up processed food. Then a few years back I started making peppermint Oreos at the holidays to emulate Trader Jo-Jo’s peppermint sandwich cookies. Luckily, my husband finds the homemade versions better then the originals. If you really want to guild the lilly, try rolling the cookie edge in dye free, corn syrup free candy cane bits. My local whole foods used to sell jars of candy cane bits, but this year I had to buy whole candy canes to crush myself.
Are the chocolate cookies crunchy like an Oreo or soft like a whoopie pie? I think I’d like to try these instead of the homemade peppermint patties this year.
These are soft. :)
I have not made these yet. They sound good, but hearing that they are soft gave me an idea. What if I use the chocolate Graham crackers instead?
Laura –
Thanks for your daily cheerful posts and inspiration!
This has absolutely nothing to do with oreos, but do you (or any readers) have any non toxic product suggestion or tips on getting stains out of clothing (especially set-in stains?)
Thanks for any help anyone has!!
Amy
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This recipe makes me so happy, Laura! Thanks so much. I was just at Trader Joe’s the other day and I put one box of candy cane Jojo’s in my cart. I changed my mind and put them back. Now I have your recipe so I’m so glad I did! Thanks so much – pinning to my Christmas board.
These “Oreos” are delicious! I ended up making nine “regular” Oreos and nine mint ones, by stopping and frosting half before adding the mint and then only using 1/4 teaspoon of mint instead of 1/2. Great recipe!