Soft dark chocolate cookies with luscious cream cheese frosting sandwiched in between, these Homemade Oreo Cookies are very different from the original but very delicious!
But these cookies aren't anything like real Oreo cookies! No, they aren't, and that's okay. They are homemade Oreo cookies. Similar idea. Like my Mint Chocolate Sandwich Cookies! Two dark chocolate cookies sandwiched with icing.
My homemade cookies are soft and fudgy with cream cheese frosting between them. We can just call them Chocolate Sandwich Cookies if we cannot come to terms with calling them Oreos!
Try my Birthday Cake Sandwich Cookies or Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches next if you love your cookies made into sandwiches!
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⭐️ Why You Need to Make This Recipe
- Rich chocolate flavor. We use a chocolate fudge cake mix with extra cocoa powder added for a super deep chocolate cookie.
- Buttery cream cheese filling. Although it isn't traditional of an Oreo cookie, the sweet and tangy cream cheese frosting adds another flavor dimension to these homemade Oreo cookies.
- Soft texture. Sink your teeth into super soft and fudgy cookies and creamy filling.
🧈 Ingredients
Here are the ingredients needed to make these chocolate sandwich cookies.
- Salted Butter - Unsalted butter may be used with ¼ teaspoon of salt added to the recipe.
- Eggs - 2 eggs are needed for structure.
- Chocolate Cake Mix - I tested this recipe with a 375-gram box of Betty Crocker brand chocolate fudge cake mix.
- Cocoa Powder - Dutch-processed cocoa powder is what I recommend for its smooth and dark chocolate flavor.
- Cream Cheese Frosting - All you need to make the yummy cream cheese filling is softened butter and cream cheese, powdered sugar, and a little vanilla extract.
See the recipe card for the full list of ingredients with measurements.
📃 Instructions
Step 1: Cream the softened butter until fluffy. Add the eggs and mix until incorporated. The mixture may look grainy and separated but that's alright.
Step 2: Add the cake mix and cocoa powder.
Step 3: Mix just until fully incorporated. The mixture will be very soft and sticky. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes to firm up.
Step 4: Roll the chilled dough into uniform balls, using about 1 ½ tablespoons of dough per cookie. Arrange on a prepared baking sheet, leaving spreading room between each cookie.
Step 5: Bake in a preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until crinkly on top. Let cool before filling with frosting.
Step 6: Cream together the softened cream cheese and butter with the powdered sugar until smooth and fluffy.
Step 7: Pipe or spread frosting onto the bottom side of half of the cookies.
Step 8: Sandwich the cookies together with one frosted side and one unfrosted.
💡 Top Tip
I think it would be fun to bake the cookies super tiny (be sure to reduce the baking time) to make mini homemade Oreos!
❓ Recipe FAQs
Yes, you could definitely make them with buttercream filling instead of cream cheese frosting.
I don't know what the measurements would be to substitue the cake mix in this recipe as I have only tested it as made with cake mix.
I have not tested this recipe with gluten-free ingredients but I think you could use a gluten-free cake mix! Just make sure the volume of the cake mix is around 375 grams.
Because they are made with cream cheese frosting, these cookies need to be stored in the refrigerator. Cover with plastic wrap or store in an airtight container to prevent them from drying out.
🍫 More Chocolate Cookie Recipes
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If you tried these Chocolate Sandwich Cookies or any other recipe on my website, please leave a ⭐️ star rating and write a little note telling me how it went in the comments below. Thank you!!
📖 Recipe
Homemade Oreo Cookies
Equipment
- baking sheet
- parchment paper or non-stick spray
- mixing bowl
- measuring cups & spoons
- electric handheld mixer
Ingredients
For the Cookies:
- ½ cup salted butter * softened
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 box chocolate fudge cake mix * (375 gram box)
For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 2 ounces cream cheese softened to room temperature
- ¼ cup salted butter softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar (confectioners sugar)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350℉. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large-size bowl using a handheld electric mixer, beat together the softened butter and eggs until combined. Add the cocoa powder and cake mix to the wet ingredients and mix on low speed until the dry ingredients are well combined - the dough will be very soft. Cover the dough and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- When the dough is done chilling, remove from the refrigerator and roll the dough into balls, using about 1 ½ tablespoons of dough per cookie. Place on the prepared pans, 12 cookies per pan, and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the tops start to crack. Let cool on the pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling completely.
- Once the cookies are completely cooled, place the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla in a medium-sized bowl and beat with a handheld electric mixer on low speed at first increasing the speed to high as the powdered sugar mixes in, beating for 2 minutes until the frosting is light and fluffy.
- Sandwich 1 tablespoon of frosting between two cookies and do so with all the cookies and you will have 12 cookie sandwiches in all.
Notes
- Unsalted butter may be used with ¼ teaspoon of salt added to the recipe.
- This recipe was tested with a 375-gram box of Betty Crocker brand chocolate fudge cake mix.
Raquel
Thanks for the recipe! I found that the baking time was a little shorter than the recipe, but they came out great! I would definitely make them again! (:
Naomi
Thank you for leaving a review, Raquel! I am happy to hear you enjoyed this recipe!
Naomi
Jodie
Made them, ate them, LOVED THEM! Not that there is many left but how do you store them? In the refrigerator? In the pantry?
Naomi
Hi Jodie!
I’m so happy to hear that you loved them!! I would store them in the refrigerator for optimum freshness. 🙂
Naomi
Naomi Tarves
I have a question...instead of using the mix, is there a recipe you have that could be used? I like never have mixes haha
Naomi
You pretty well need to use the mix to make this recipe, but I will see about coming up with an Oreo cookie recipe from scratch!
Haylie
I’m baking them tonight but didn’t have any parchment paper on hand. Hopefully they still work out and I’m able to scrape them off without ruining their shape. If parchment paper is vital then it would be nice to have that included on the ingredient list so when we go to the store we know we need some. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Naomi
Hi Haylie,
Thank you for the feedback, I will look into adding a list of the equipment needed in each of my recipes. I hope they turned out well!
Naomi
Alicia
It does not say what temperature to bake at
Naomi
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, Alicia. I have revised the recipe to include the baking temperature. So sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you!
Happy Baking!
Naomi
Rebecca
These look amazing! My grandma made some similar to these, and they were sooo good!
Naomi
Thank you so much, Rebecca!!