Today on Sugar Spun Run, we'll be making cookies and cream cookies.
Hey Sugar Spun Bakers! Today's recipe is a sort of cookie inception. We are taking
some perfectly good Oreos, breaking them up, and baking them inside these cookies
and cream cookies. Now today's recipe is so simple you don't even really need a
video but I already did my makeup and the baby sleeping so we're gonna go
ahead and shoot this anyway. Plus I love having these cookies in my house. Now the
first thing you're going to need is a large bowl, and we are going to add one
and a half sticks, or 3/4 cup of butter, to this bowl, and you want this to be
unsalted butter that's a softened to room temperature.
We're also going to be adding three ounces of softened cream cheese.
I love the cream cheese in these cookies. It gives them a nice depth of flavor makes, them extra soft. So good
and plus it fits in with our cookies and cream theme. Now the next thing you're
going to need is 3/4 cup of granulated sugar.
And a lot of you know I love using . brown sugar wherever I can. So we're also using 1/3 cup of firmly packed light brown sugar.
Now you're going to want to use an electric mixer,
and we are going to beat these ingredients together until they are very creamy and well combined.
This looks pretty good so we're going to add 1 large egg.
And by the way, don't copy me. You should never crack your egg directly
into your mixing bowl. You should always crack it in a separate
bowl. That way if any shell gets in it's just easier to get out, but we didn't get
any shell in, so we're good this time. So now we're also going to add 3/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
And we're going to stir everything together with our mixer until it is well combined.
Pause right here. Scrape the sides of the bowl. Make sure everything really is truly well combined.
This looks perfect. So we're going to set our butter mixture
aside, and we are going to need a separate bowl for our flour. This recipe
uses all-purpose flour, and you will need two and two-thirds of cups. We'll add a teaspoon of cornstarch.
3/4 teaspoon of baking soda.
And just 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
We'll stir everything together so our dry ingredients are completely combined.
Alright now let's bring back our butter and our cream cheese and we
are going to gradually stir our flour mixture into our liquid ingredient mixture.
Keep your mixer on low speed so your flour doesn't go flying everywhere.
Just going to add the flour about a third at a time.
Alright so this looks pretty good. Let me just take a look make sure there no
hidden pockets of flour. Everything's well combined. S o it looks pretty good so
now we are going to add some mini chocolate chips I like to use 2/3 cups of mini chocolate chips.
And of course we are going to need our Oreos. So you will
need 12 Oreo cookies, or chocolate sandwich cookies, for this recipe.
And we're going to break them up before we add them into our batter, and we are
going to smack them around a little bit. I am just going to use a rolling pin, and
you don't want them to be crushed in completely into fine crumbs. I personally
like to have some discernible pieces of cookie in my cookies and cream cookies.
So break them up according to your preference but make sure you leave some pieces in there.
This is also a great way to get out any pent-up anger, like when
your husband sets his alarm clock a little bit too early and it wakes up the
baby. He's filming this right now so he'll appreciate that. Okay so our
cookies are nice and crushed. So we can go ahead and add these into our cookie dough batter.
Looking good.
Alright now we'll just stir everything together and I like to do this part with my spatula rather than trying to use my mixer.
Now once your Oreos and your chocolate chips are nicely combined into
the dough, it should look a lot like cookies and cream ice cream. We are going
to have to chill our cookie dough. N ow you'll just want to cover the bowl with
some plastic wrap. This will just keep it from drying out while it's chilling in the fridge.
And we'll chill this for 30 minutes.
Now about 15 minutes before your cookie dough is finished chilling, before you're ready to bake the cookies,
you'll want to pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. When your cookie
dough has finished chilling, and your oven is preheated, we can go ahead and start scooping this.
Now we're just going to scoop this cookie dough by about a heaping one and a half tablespoon sized scoop.
And you can drop this directly on to your baking sheet and bake it as a drop cookie that way, but one thing I
like to do to make my cookies a little more uniform and round, is I like to just
quickly roll the dough between my palms for a nice round cookie dough ball.
That's optional. It just makes the cookies look a little extra nice.
And you will want to space these cookies about two inches apart on the baking sheet.
They're not going to spread a ton, but they will spread a little bit. So you
want to give them some space. I don't know about you but I am so excited to eat these.
We'll take these over to our 350 degree Fahrenheit preheated oven
where we will bake them for about 10 to 12 minutes. Now you'll just want to let
these cookies cool completely on their baking sheet before enjoying. Once
they've cooled, we can go ahead and dig in. That is how easy it is to make these
cookies and cream cookies. I told you you don't even need a video for this. If you
try this one out, please let me know what you think. I always love hearing from you.
Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
These are good.