Scrumptious Saturdays #6 - Vanilla Oreos

I found this recipe online a couple of weeks ago, and was dying to try it out. I love Oreos and vanilla flavored things, so these sounded perfect. I tried to make them and I really liked how they turned out.

Cookies: makes 24

10 tbsp butter, room temperature (I used 150g)

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 tsp salt

1 large egg

1 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

2 cups of plain flour

Beat butter in large bowl until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Add sugar and salt and continue beating for another 2 minutes until pale and fluffy. Add egg and beat until well blended. Reduce speed to low and beat in vanilla. And the flour and beat on low until combined. Gather dough into a ball and Seperate in half. Flatten into disks and wrap in glad wrap. Keep on fridge for a minimum of 4 hours.

Remove one disk from fridge and roll out on over a sprinkle of flour with a rolling pin. It is quite tough to roll but you will get there eventually. Use cookie cutters to cut out some round shapes, and sprinkle with raw sugar. Bake at 170°C for 10 minutes or until the edges are slightly browned. 

Icing:

Icing sugar

Boiling water

1 tbsp butter

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Sift icing sugar into a bowl. Push to one side and add the butter. Boil some water in a kettle and pour over the butter. Stir to melt the butter. Mix the water and butter with the icing sugar. If you need more water, add some more. Add in the vanilla and mix again until combined. Spread onto one cookie and top with another cookie. Repeat until all the cookies are used up.

*The pictures are not mine because I forgot to take photos. They are from 'Cupcakes and Cashmere')

Have you ever made homemade Oreos?

Au Revoir xx