Old School Homemade Oreos Recipe

comment icon 57 more comments Homemade Oreos. This is important to say right off the bat: there’s no crunchy cookie and no dry frosting here. We’re just borrowing the concept of all Oreo layering but swapping the dry stuff for a soft, buttery, moist, perfectly dense little chocolate cookie stuffed with cream cheese frosting. Oh my word they’re so good. They’re an easy holiday baking win, giftable, party-able, and a total gift to humanity. It feels wrong and unholy to say these are better than real Oreos but honestly, these are better than real Oreos. Give me a soft, moist, cakey-meets-fudgy-meets-cream-cheese-frosting situation over a dry cookie any day. Or every day.

Say Hello To Boxed Cake Mix (Yes)

Okay. Now. Please accept that this is a recipe which uses a boxed cake mix. If you need something more homemade than that, you’ll need to find another version on the internet. This is old school, and old school means we use the box cake mix like the low-to-moderately ambitious home bakers that we are. Trust.

A Fudgy, Dense, Buttery Miracle

What results from this mind-bendingly easy combination of ingredients is nothing short of a holiday miracle. Bless you, Homemade Oreos. The fudgy cookie, the thick swirl of cream cheese frosting, the dense, soft, buttery texture of all of it together after chilling in the fridge (or sitting on your snow-covered Midwestern porch) for a few days is a specific brand of joyful moment that I wait all year for. Put on the cozy sweater, get a mug of milk, or eggnog, or hot dark coffee (omg), and let the magic loose.

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More Old-School Dessert Gems

Give us all the retro baked goods and desserts (like good Midwesterners). Some other favs from the blog:

The Best Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies (classic of all classics!) The Best Easy Peanut Butter Pie (peanut butter, cream cheese, whipped topping, YES) Blender Lemon Pie (grandma’s favorite ❤️) Golden Grahams Bars (gimme all the cereal bars) Modern Scotcheroos (modern makeover on a classic) Fruit Pizza (more cream cheese frosting happiness!) Chocolate Peanut Butter Saltine Toffee (yes, saltines – trust)

The sweet mom of the family that I babysat for in high school used to make these, which is why I’m calling these old school. ♡ Sometime in the early 2000s, I got the recipe from her and then gave it to my mom who went on to make these for all our swim meets. To this day, I have friends who make these every year as a Christmas cookie (myself often among them). They’re wonderfully basic, charmingly old school, and dangerously good.