Homemade oreos

I was searching the Chocolate-covered Katie blog and found a recipe for homemade oreos. I tried making them and they turned out okay.



Ingredients:

Cookies:

- 3/4 cup (95 grams) flour
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoon (45 grams) cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoon (75 grams) white sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1/4 teaspoon (2 grams) baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoon (45 ml) milk
- 2 tablespoon (30 ml) maple syrup
Filling:
- 1/2 cup (62 grams) powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon (1 ml)vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) shortening (you cannot substitute it with butter, since then the filling will have butter flavour)

Directions:

1. In a medium sized bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt and baking soda.
2. In another bowl, combine the vanilla extract, oil, milk and maple syrup. Add in the dry ingredients until it forms into a dough.
3. Refrigerate for half an hour.
4. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F or 150 degrees C. Roll out the dough and cut out circle shapes with a circle cookie-cutter. They don't have to be too big since the cookies will spread. Put them on a cookie sheet and bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool for at least 10 minutes.
5. To make the filling, mix all of the ingredients in a small bowl with a fork. 
6. Put a teaspoon of the filling onto half of the cookies and cover them with the other half of the cookies.
7. Refrigerate the cookies so the filling firms up.
8. Store in an airtight container in the fridge so the filling stays hard.

Enjoy!