Red Velvet Oreos Recipe

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I was going to wait and post these tomorrow.

But I just can’t possibly hang on to them for another minute. I’m bursting at the seams to share these with you!

Red Velvet Oreos | somethingswanky.com

Red Velvet Oreos.

And I don’t mean the soft, cake-y cookies with cream cheese filling that people like to call Oreos (although those are also pretty good). I mean crunchy, crispy red velvet cookies filled with real Oreo cream.

I mean Red Velvet actual Oreos.

Red Velvet Oreos | somethingswanky.comI pressed rubber letter stamps (found in the dollar section at Target about a week ago) into the cookie dough before baking. As you can see, there’s hardly any spreading at all– so your words will stay in tact if you choose to add a sweet message!

I was thrilled with how these turned out, and I’m even more excited to be able to share them with you. Happy Red Velvet season, folks!

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Red Velvet Oreos

Yield: approximately 14 sandwich cookies (with extra cream)

Ingredients

Red Velvet Cookies:

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • ΒΎ cup powdered sugar
  • 1Β½ cups all purpose flour
  • Β½ cup corn starch
  • Β½ teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbsp red food coloring*

Oreo Cream:

  • 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp granulated sugar
  • 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 Tbsp hot water

Instructions

Red Velvet Cookies:

  1. Preheat oven to 325ºF.
  2. Beat together the butter and powdered sugar until smooth. Mix in the flour, corn starch, and salt. Mix in the vanilla and red food coloring.
  3. Turn the dough out onto a well floured surface and roll out to 1/4 inch thick (thinner for an even crispier cookie). Cut out circles and transfer to a parchment or silicone lined cookie sheet. Freeze cookies on cookie sheet for 10 minutes. If desired, stamp letters onto the dough after freezing.
  4. Bake for 15 minutes, transfer to wire rack for cooling.

Oreo Cream:

  1. Beat together the vegetable shortening, vanilla, powdered sugar, sugar, and hot water until smooth.

Assembly:

  1. Spread the cream on the bottom of a cookie and top with a second cookie.
  2. Store in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.

Notes

Red Velvet Cookie recipe adapted from: The Cafe Sucre Farine

Oreo Cream recipe from: Cookies and Cups

 

Don’t miss a bite!

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36 thoughts on “Red Velvet Oreos Recipe”

  1. They are so awesome and creative! I love it! Pinned!

    Totally random question but I noticed you used 2 tbsp red food coloring and ive been making a few red velvet things and between tests and trials, I am going thru red food coloring like mad and the stores in my area sell it in a set. I have to buy green, blue, and yellow! So I have like 10 tubes each of those other colors, and no reds. Lol. Where do you get yours?

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  2. Awesome! Can’t wait to try these. So glad to see a recipe to make real Oreo-like cookies rather than the whoopie pies I see everywhere. <3 Averie, McCormick makes larger 1oz. bottles of their food colorings that you buy separately. I know Wal-Mart sells it. http://www.walmart.com/ip/McCormick-Specialty-Extracts-Red-Food-Color-1-oz/10308886. I also saw green while looking for the link. Ooooh! Wouldn't the oreos be pretty in blue or green to make them mint oreos! Yum!

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  3. So if I wanted to make a chocolate version of these, what do you recommend? The red is adorable but I try to skip the whole artificial coloring bit. I’ve made the Oreo Cream before and love it!! I’ve been hoping for a crunchy Oreo cookie recipe so I’m hoping you can give advice on how to adapt this one… Thanks!

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    • Just leave out the food coloring, up the vanilla to 1 tbsp, and use special dark chocolate cocoa powder. That’s just a guess on my part… I don’t really know πŸ™‚ Or just google search “chocolate shortbread recipes” and look for the one that appears to have the crispest edges (no spreading)!

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  4. Yes! These look absolutely perfect. My boyfriend is addicted to Oreos so I’ll definitely have to surprise him with these for Valentine’s Day! Plus then I can feel better about him not eating all those icky preservatives in the real things :).

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  5. These look amazing, can’t wait to try. Question though – why are they considered Rev Velvet when they have no vinegar in them?

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  6. Has anyone actually tried making these??
    I know their cute and stuff but
    I made a batch yesterday with country crock butter substitute and the dough was so oily! Then I used butter today and it wasn’t very oily, it just wasn’t very good dough, to mushy. I even added a little bit of extra flour to try to thicken it up, didn’t really work either and I didn’t want to add a lot and cut down on the flavor. The cream, great!! Identical to real Oreo cream! I used one teaspoon of vanilla instead of half tho. (Typing this on my phone, sorry for the bad grammar!)

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