Oreo Cookies

Total Time: 48 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 48
• 18 ounces devil's food cake mix
• 1/4 cup water, cold
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup crisco
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• 1 lb powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup bitter cocoa powder
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 envelope unflavored gelatin

Recipe

• 1 blend all cookie dough ingredients together until you can shape the dough into a smooth ball.
• 2 let it stand 20 minutes, loosely covered.
• 3 form dough into marble-sized balls.
• 4 place 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheet.
• 5 flatten each with smooth bottom of a drinking glass greased once and dipped into nestles' quick powder. (or use sweetened chocolate drink powder).
• 6 bake at 400 degrees for 8 minutes.
• 7 remove cookies at once from baking sheet, to paper toweling and at once, flatten each cookie with back of pancake turner.
• 8 let cool 20 minutes.
• 9 fill with cookie filling mixture.
• 10 cookie filling:
• 11 soften gelatin in cold water.
• 12 place in heatproof cup in pan of hot water till gelatin is transparent.
• 13 meanwhile beat crisco till fluffy, adding vanilla and sugar a little at a time.
• 14 beat in gelatin mixture when it is completely cooled, but not yet "set" or firm.
• 15 this is used to give the filling stability - as well as protein!
• 16 when cooled, shape filling into 1 inch balls.
• 17 place between the two bottom sides of the cooled cookies, pressing gently till filling has spread to edge of cookies and rounded-out like the originals.