Homemade Happieness... oh and cookies

     What's better then a chocolate wafer filled with sugary paste like filling? I think nothing, which is why today I attempted to make homemade Oreos. I found a recipe online at food.com (http://www.food.com/recipe/homemade-oreo-cookies-36513), figured out that I had most of the ingredients already and then after my chores around the house I embarked on my journey to Oreo land! 

     The instructions were super simple and the pre-made cake mix sped things up alot. I got double chocolate fudge cake mix because that's the closest I could find. It took forever for the dough to not be sticky anymore, and I decided to roll it out and make star shapes because I thought they would be more festive. (I actually later regretted doing a star shape because it's hard to get the filling all the way out to the points of the star.)

I rolled the dough to be about 1/4 of an inch thick and I think next time I would do them a little thicker. I baked them for 8 minutes and they came out soft but hardened up pretty quick. I used two different sizes of stars and it ended up making enough for 12 big cookie stars 16 little star cookies. 

The filling was not hard at all. I kind of felt like I was going to get diabetes just making the filling though! The filling made more then I had cookies, but that's because I used big cookie cutters. The filling is like the consistency of play dough or moist sand. I'm trying to say that this is not something that you spread on, you roll into a ball and then squish it down to make a sandwich.  

Right as I finishing the last batch, some friends showed up (imagine that!) and were totally open to being the taste testers. Everyone gave thumbs up and Jim even used curse words to describe how tasty they were! I feel like these cookies weren't hard to make, just a little time consuming. I will say that if you take these anywhere or make them for a gathering I'm sure everyone will be super impressed with your baking skills. All in all I would totally make these again, with a few tweaks to my dry run! 

     I hope this has inspired you to try these cookies or even a different recipe. I had a ton of fun and even the husband helped with the cookie cutting. It's time for a nap and then work so I'll update soon and I hope everyone is good and happy!