- Hello, I'm Alvin,
welcome back to Tasty's Making it Big,
the show where I make giant versions
of some of America's most beloved foods.
Today, I'm gonna be making a giant Oreo.
Why?
I love Oreos, let's get goin'.
(jazzy music)
Boom, okay, so this is an Oreo.
Do you guys see a problem?
'Cause I do.
It's small and we don't do that here.
I'll save you for later.
So to start, I'm going to sift dry ingredients into a bowl.
This is flour, baking soda, salt,
Dutch-processed cocoa powder.
This is the special dark cocoa powder
that gives the Oreo its signature color.
Little whisk.
Ooh, that looks cool.
All right, dry ingredients are set.
I'm going to cream the butter and the sugar
in my trusty little KitchenAid.
His name is Todd.
Put in a lot of work last season.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down now.
Came back from the dead.
Here we go.
(mixer whirring)
I'm gonna say that's good.
Now four eggs.
(Alvin humming)
(Alvin blowing)
Back on we go.
Ooh, it's dark.
When I look into it, I can't see anything.
It's like looking into a black hole.
And we're done.
(upbeat music)
Oh wait.
It's not cooked.
Maybe I shouldn't have done that.
Boop, looks like something from a volcano.
Ooh, that's nice.
Look at that, so soft.
Ooh, this is not shaping
just like the circle I wanted it to.
Now we're gonna get this onto a tray.
The question is how do we get this onto this?
The answer?
I don't know.
I think it's sticking to the table a little bit.
(wood scraping)
Ooh, starting to break a little bit.
(wood scraping)
Well, this Oreo is very interesting.
Hold on, I got it.
Oh, it looks like we're gonna flip it over.
Ta-da and I dropped the dough.
Good job, Alvin.
We'll be right back.
(loud beeping)
So this is some dough that we re-rolled using the scraps
and I'm going to start cutting shapes,
because a regular Oreos design
is actually very, very, very complex.
A lot of triangles, lines, circles.
I'm starting with a square.
Down you go. (groans)
Nice.
This is very fun.
It reminds me of arts and crafts class
that I did very poorly at.
I'm gonna cut these into triangles,
so I'm going to go half way.
Good job, Alvin, thanks.
Now I wanna cut some circles, this guy.
Oh (beeps), how do I get you out?
Get out, oh, ignore the hole in the back.
I'm gonna be here for a while.
Think I'm just gonna cut out my own name,
so we have little letters.
I'm gonna start from the back.
And (groans), oh God, come on, come out.
Ah, I should have floured it.
All right, Alvin, what are you doing?
Yeah, it's a little ugly.
I wanna do that again.
We're gonna flour it this time like smart people.
All right, come out.
Oh, well, we're gonna give this one more try.
Ah yes, that's an N, great.
How do you get this A out, what?
Yeah, this ain't it, chief.
Aiyo, this is a terrible A.
Yeah I'm gonna, I think I'm just gonna hand cut this A.
'Kay, I might've made the legs a little too long.
That's okay.
This is Alvin, but the A is bold.
(whimsical music)
While the little shapes are chilling in the fridge,
we actually have two of these dough circles.
Culinary helped me make another one.
So again, thank you guys.
Because an Oreo has that ring on the outside
and I wanna see if I can get that design too.
Center, please be center.
Now we can cut a ring around.
That is a lot stiffer than I thought it was gonna be.
(paper crinkling)
Nice.
I wanna save this for later.
This is a little ring
and this guy goes on this guy.
Kind of like making dumplings,
you gotta wet the edges a little bit so it sticks.
It's an ancient Chinese technique
passed down from generation to generation.
Oh God, is it gonna break?
Oh, don't break.
It broke, that's okay.
That's just how it goes sometimes.
One, two, and we go around.
That looks pretty cool.
All right, now we've got to get this guy back onto the tray.
(paper crinkling)
Here we go.
I'm gonna use this ring to shape him up a little better.
Looking great, feeling great.
Clear your hearts.
Cold minds can't lose.
Nope, that's not how it goes at all.
All right, outer ring is done.
Let's see if I know how to spell.
Oh God, that's not centered, is it?
Oh, let's highlight this.
Ooh, I like that.
One, two, one, two.
Oh, that looks like a clock.
Now let's get these wedges on.
Ooh, now that looks cool.
All right, I think...
(metal clattering)
I think this is it.
I'm just gonna, for safety,
put this guy in the freezer and then I'm gonna bake him.
I'll see you guys after I take a little nap.
Ooh, good Oreo.
(melodic whistling)
Time to make the frosting.
Apparently, there's a lot of stuff that goes into it.
We found a recipe which is actually made
by a Buzzfeed alumni, Scott Loitsch, and we scaled it up.
We scaled it up a lot.
Eight sticks of butter and we're gonna cream it.
Wow, it smells so good, oh my God.
This is clear vanilla extract.
I don't know where this comes from,
but it smells like a rainbow,
so we're gonna put it in.
This is eight cups of powdered sugar.
Another eight cups.
Oh God, look what you did Alvin,
you messed it up again, you doofus.
Oh Jesus, oh geez, it's spilling again, come on Alvin.
Oh God, oh Jesus.
Get back in there.
No, don't come out.
It's kinda looking like frosting.
Wow, that's stiff, Jesus!
Okay, frosting is done.
I'm going to get it into this bowl.
Oh my God, I made a,
it's like a sugar crime scene over here.
Shh, don't tell the police.
Oh my God!
This is your brain on drugs.
Nope, I should not say that.
This is a family-friendly show.
That's for making it big after dark.
Whew, probably wallpaper my house with this
if I had a house, I can't afford a house.
(lounge music)
The top of the cookie is in the oven.
It's gonna bake for a little bit, it's gonna chill.
Now we have the bottom, which has been baked off
and we have all this amazing frosting that we made.
So I think it'll be fun to use an ice cream scoop.
Ooh, that's nice.
I like that very much.
This is like building a sundae, but it's not ice cream.
It's just butter.
I feel like each one of these scoops has enough filling
to almost like fill a whole sleeve of Oreos.
I'm pretty sure this is not how they make Oreos
back at the factory.
Smoosh them all together, so they become good friends.
Look at this, look at this.
This is a smooth Oreo.
So this is my Oreo that I baked
and the goal is to get it onto here.
Not sure if I'm gonna be able to get this,
but we will do our best.
Just get this on.
Hmm, this is an interesting...problem.
How do I get you on there?
(paper crinkling)
It's not coming off.
Oh, there it is, yeah.
All right.
Okay, that's on.
It's me in an Oreo.
I heard that our culinary team,
wonderful people in the back,
have actually been making more of these.
So, you know, as Oreo is proud to say,
they are milk's favorite cookie,
so we have a nice giant glass of milk.
Look at this, it's like 10 pounds, holy moly!
This giant Oreo is at least a hundred times
the size of a normal Oreo.
I am very happy with this.
Let's eat it.
This is one thick cookie.
Oh, it's like trying to get Excalibur out of the ground.
Would you look at that?
This is my Oreo sandwich.
Oh, this tastes like an actual Oreo!
It has that crumbliness when you dip it in the milk.
Oh, that filling is thick.
My heart is beating very fast.
Well if you excuse me,
I have a lot of Oreos to eat.
Buh-bye!
(upbeat music)