Homemade Double Stuf Oreos

I’d like to clear up a misconception here.

Not all food bloggers are brimming with genius dessert and dinner ideas all the time.  In fact, I’d venture to say that more than half of the time, we sit here on Pinterest for hours on end, catch back-to-back episodes of Giada at Home on Food Network and flip furiously through cookbook upon cookbook to try to find something to make or even a glimmer of inspiration.

Or maybe that’s just me?  Except replace Giada at Home with Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Pinterest with eBay.  I’m terrible, I know.

People always assume I’m some kind of genius dessert vending machine — ask me to make something and I’ll spout out some life-changing recipe one second later.  Not the case, compadre.  More than usual, I’ll stare blankly back at you and hope you’ll forget you asked a question that I hopefully won’t have to answer.  It hasn’t happened yet, but I’m betting one of these days I’ll luck out with someone who has short-term amnesia.

Last week, I was having this exact problem.  I couldn’t figure out what to bake because everything sounded A) boring, B) overdone, C) I’ve already made it, or D) I wasn’t thinking about food because my brain cells were dying as I watched Khloe pack up her old house.  So I began rummaging through my baking shelf (which looks like a bunch of sugar fairies died in there — it’s a gruesome, sugary mess) in hopes that I’d find some magical ingredient or something that would spark some brilliant ideas.

Buuuuut no dice.

I did, however, find a half-eaten package of Double Stuf Oreos that I got excited about because duh, Double Stuf Oreos.  And then I realized they expired in February and became distraught that my life has come to my contemplation of whether or not I should eat 6-month old expired cookies.  But then I realized I could make my OWN Double Stuf Oreos and they’d be fresh and every bit as delicious.

So I made them.  And y’all — they are scrumptious.  They taste like those Oreo Cakesters (RIP) they used to make — part cookie, part whoopie pie, part cake — and all delicious.  Chocolatey, fudgy, and chewy with slightly crispy edges and that decadent, sweet white filling.  You won’t be able to stop at one, I guarantee you that.

However, I do not guarantee that I’ll be getting off the couch anytime soon — methinks I need an intervention for this Kardashian business.

I love the texture of these fluffy, chewy cookies!  They’re just crispy enough to pass as a cookie, but soft enough to be considered a Cakester.  The perfect Oreo cookie hybrid!  All that’s missing is the milk — and the reality TV marathon 😉

Have a fantastical day!

xo, Hayley