These Nutty About Oreo Cookies have to be my favorite of the ones I made for my March extreme cookies series! These things are so good! They are actually made with the same base dough as my Ultimate Reese's Cookies. These are chocolate dough with peanut butter chips. The center in then filled with an Oreo and a scoop of peanut butter. To top off the cookie, I placed a Nutter Butter and drizzled peanut butter ganache on top! This cookie is definitely not for the faint of heart!
INGREDIENT HIGHLIGHTS:
Below is a summary of some of the key ingredients in these Nutty About Oreo Cookies!
- Espresso Powder. If you don’t have espresso powder as one of your pantry staples, I highly suggest changing that ASAP. I typically use espresso powder in chocolate baked goods to enhance the chocolate flavor. It can also be useful to give your baked goods a coffee flavor. I chose to add the espresso powder to these cookies to enhance the chocolate flavor and ensure that they were rich and delicious! Espresso powder can be found in most grocery store baking isles and is optional for this recipe, but it is definitely recommended!
- Cake Flour. Utilizing cake flour in cookies gives them a more light, fluffy, and delicate texture. I wanted these cookies to be very soft but not as cake-like as my Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cookies so you’ll notice that these ones don’t have as much cake flour and more all-purpose flour. If you do not want to buy cake flower, there is a common substitution for it that you can try instead. For the ¾ cups of cake flour that this recipe calls for, you would measure out ¾ cups of all-purpose flour. You then remove 1 ½ tablespoons of the flour and replace it with 1 ½ tablespoons of cornstarch or corn flour (preferably corn flour but either works).
TOOLS TO MAKE THIS RECIPE:
Below is a summary of the key tools that you will need to make these Nutty About Oreo Cookies!
- Stand Mixer. You will need this to mix the cookie dough. Stand mixers are great! I love Kitchenaid stand mixers. I have owned both tilt head mixers and bowl lift mixers from Kitchenaid and I prefer the bowl lift option. It seems more stable to me when mixing thicker doughs.
- Sheet Pan. This will be needed to bake the cookies (Note: I have not tested this linked product. The one that I have is not found online anymore but this is the same brand as the one I have.)
📖 Recipe
Nutty About Oreo Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 c unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 ½ c brown sugar
- ¼ c granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ c all-purpose flour
- ¾ c cake flour
- 1 c cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon espresso powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 c peanut butter chips
- 16 Oreos
- 16 teaspoon peanut butter for centers
- 16 Nutter Butters
For the Peanut Butter Ganache
- ½ c peanut butter chips
- ¼ c heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Scoop out one teaspoon of peanut butter for each cookie and place on parchment paper on plate and freeze.
- Cream butter and sugars together until smooth.
- Add egg and vanilla and beat until combined.
- Add flours, cocoa powder, espresso powder, and baking soda. Mix on low speed until combined.
- Fold in peanut butter chips.
- Scoop about 3 tablespoon of dough and form into a ball. Flatten dough and place one thing of the frozen peanut butter in the center. Top with Oreo. Form dough around the peanut butter and Oreo until completely covered. Place dough on cookie sheet.
- Bake for 15minutes. Allow to cool slightly before transferring to cooling rack.
- When cookies are cooling and still slightly soft, stick a nutter butter in the top.
For the Peanut Butter Ganache
- Heat peanut butter chips and heavy cream in saucepan, continuously stirring until melted and smooth. Allow to cool slightly before drizzling over the top of the cookies.
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