Faux-Reos
"Adapted from a recipe by Kathy at allrecipes.com. Not crunchy like the originals, but boy, are they good! DON'T make them too big, or they get unwieldy."
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
24 sandwich cookies
- Serves:
- 24
ingredients
-
Cookies
- 2 (18 1/4 ounce) boxes devil's food cake mix
- 1 1⁄2 cups shortening
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Filling
- 3 ounces cream cheese
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
directions
- Set oven racks for upper third and middle third of oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
- Combine all cookie ingredients and mix well. Batter will be thick.
- Roll dough into balls the size of nickels; you should have 48 balls. Place on two greased cookie sheets, about 2 inches apart. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, switching sheets up for down, and rotating back to front, halfway through.
- Cool on cookie sheets 5 minutes, then transfer to cooling racks until completely cool.
- Meanwhile, beat together all filling ingredients. If using a stand or hand mixer, start VERY slowly, or sugar will spray all over the room! When blended, transfer to a gallon-size ziptop bag and refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
- When cookies are cool and filling has set up slightly, cut off a corner of the ziptop bag and, using it like a pastry bag, pipe filling onto the bottoms of half of the cookies. Stick bottom-to-bottom with another, unfrosted cookie.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
DrGaellon
New Rochelle, 0
I'm a 48 y/o gay Jewish man in the suburbs immediately north of New York City. I'm a general internist, practicing and teaching at a medical college north of NYC. I also earned a Masters in Public Health degree in 2013.
After a Walt Disney World trip in Dec 2006 where I had to rent an electric scooter because I couldn't manage the walking, I decided to have gastric bypass surgery, which was done Feb 28, 2007. I lost 160 lbs (though I've gained back about 60 of that since). I can't eat as much as I used to, so I want every bite to be extra good!
