Oreos

OREOS

Serving: 12

Time: 3 hours

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COOKIES

¾ cup gluten-free flour

⅓ cup cocoa powder

⅓ cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon baking soda

⅓ cup avocado oil

1 egg

1 tablespoon vanilla

FROSTING

½ cup unsalted butter (softened)

¾ cup powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt, and baking soda in a bowl. Mix the avocado oil, egg, and vanilla in a separate bowl. Once everything is combined, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix.

Take the dough and mold it into a disc-like shape, then wrap with saran wrap and stick it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Once it is firm it is ready.

Sprinkle cocoa powder onto a flat surface. Set the dough on the surface and roll until it is about ¼” thick. Cut out the same sized circles. It is important that they are the same size because they will be made into a cookie sandwich. It is helpful to use a cookie cutter, but not necessary.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a baking tray with cooking spray and set aside.

Put the cookies on the baking tray and stick them in the oven for 14-16 minutes until they are firm. Let the cookies cool.

Add the butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla into a bowl and mix until creamy and combined.

Once the cookies are completely cooled, spread the frosting on one cookie, then put another cookie on top to make a cookie sandwich. Do the same with the rest of the cookies.

OREOS

The first time I travelled outside of the United States was in eighth grade during our week off for spring break. My friend Anya invited me to go to Turks and Caicos with her and her parents, which of course I agreed to because the Bahamas always looked incredible. She invited me a while in advance, so I remember spending our entire art class raving about the trip three months prior to actually going.

Sitting on the plane we kept saying that it wasn’t hitting us, as in we weren’t really realizing that we were going to this beautiful place. I remember staring out the window at a sky full of clouds when all of a sudden turquoise water appeared right before my eyes. Anya and I squealed and bounced in are seats saying it finally hit us.

When we arrived we were shown our room, which was about twenty feet from the beach. One of the most significant things that I remember is the beach looking exactly like the pictures, maybe even more beautiful, with white sand and bright turquoise water.

One day, Anya and I decided to go grocery shopping for snacks for our room, walking for about twenty minutes in the blazing sun and humid air. Anya was one of the biggest snackers I had ever met, never actually eating a meal, but rather snacking on junk food all day long. I was always amazed at how fit she was because it seemed as though she only ate chips and cookies, which were the items that we bought at the grocery store. We purchased a family sized bag of Lays lemon-lime chips, and a family-sized bag of Oreos. I had always enjoyed Oreos, but they were never exceptionally special to me.

Once we got home, we somehow managed to eat the whole bag of cookies in under an hour. Instead of feeling the need to take a break from eating, or maybe even getting sick of the chocolate cookie sandwiches, we went back to the grocery store and bought three more bags: one for me, one for her, and one to share.

For the rest of the trip we spent every morning, night, and afternoon, after playing on the beach, or snorkeling, or jet skiing, or tubing, eating bags of Oreos. In total we ate six bags of Oreos in under a week, not including the two bags that we purchased for the plane ride.

Ever since this trip the two of us have kept our obsessions with Oreos, though we don’t eat six bags a week any more. Everytime we hangout we make sure to bring at least one bag of Oreo, which we somehow never get tired of.

Inspired by:

Gore, Makinze. “Keto Oreos That Could Pass As The Real Thing.” Delish, Hearst

Magazine Media, 2 Apr. 2019,

www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a26881970/keto-oreos-recipe/.