Homemade Oreo Cookies

Be prepared! Not a low calorie food and far better than store bought Oreo's!

Recipe:

Mixed cookie dough.

   Cookies:
      1 box of devil's food cake mix
      3/4 cup shortening
      2 eggs
    Mix in bowl until combined. Roll into balls. Bake in oven at 350* 4min on bottom rack and 4min on middle   rack.
 

Cookies out of the oven. They should be a little puffy and crinkled.

Filling:
      4oz cream cheese
      1/4 cup butter
      powdered sugar as needed
   Mix soft cream cheese and butter adding powdered sugar until thick. Put filling into cooled cookies.

Finished Filling

Finished Oreo

You will want to put cookies into fridge for at least 30min for them to set up.

Peanut Butter Cups

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

2 TBS unsalted butter (room temp)

1/8 tsp salt

1/2 cup powdered sugar

Chocolate coating

9 oz semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped

9 oz milk chocolate, coarsely chopped

1 TBS shortening

Line 36 mini muffin cups with paper liners.

Place the peanut butter, unsalted butter, and salt in a microwaveable bowl, and heat in the microwave for about one minute or just until soft, but not melted (check and stir the ingredients every 20 seconds). Stir in the confectioners sugar.

Melt the chocolates and shortening in a heatproof bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water.

Drop a teaspoon of the melted chocolate into each of the paper lined miniature muffin cups. Top with a scant teaspoon of peanut butter mixture. Then top with another teaspoon of melted chocolate. Refrigerate until set. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Makes about 36 peanut butter cups. Preparation time 30 minutes.

Found at :http://www.joyofbaking.com/candy/PeanutButterCups.html#ixzz1Y9rwD9T4

-Candace