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Home-made Oreos

And this is why I should type recipes immediately after making them… can’t remember how many this makes. Shall just have to do them again to find out, which shouldn’t be too arduous a task! These tasted delicious :)

For the cookie:

160g plain flour

8tbsp cocoa powder

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

250g sugar

140g room-temperature butter

1 large egg

1. Mix the dry ingredients with an electric mixer, then, on low speed, add butter and then the egg
2. Continue until dough comes together in a mass.
3. Take rounded teaspoons of the dough and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet approximately two inches apart. With moistened hands, slightly flatten the dough. 
4. Bake for 9 minutes at 190oC. 
5. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool. 

Filling:

115g butter

260g icing sugar

2 tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp milk (if required)

1. Place butter in a mixing bowl, and at low speed, gradually beat in the sugar and vanilla. 
2. Turn the mixer on high and beat for 2 to 3 minutes until filling is light and fluffy. 

To assemble the cookies

1. Spoon teaspoon-sized blobs of cream into the center of one cookie. 
2. Place another cookie, equal in size to the first, on top of the cream. 
3. Lightly press, to work the filling evenly to the outsides of the cookie. 

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