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Title: Nabisco Oreo (Wafers)
Categories: Cookies, Copycat
Yield: 54 Cookies

18 1/4 oz Pkg Betty Crocker chocolate
- fudge cake mix
3 tb Shortening; melted
1/2 c Cake flour;
- measured then sifted
1 Egg
3 tb Water
2 tb Brown paste food coloring
- (optional) *

When I first designed the Oreo cookie clone recipe for the second
book, More Top Secret Recipes, I decided that a cake mix would suit
the recipe best. However, the variety and brand I chose--Duncan Hines
Dark Dutch Fudge--became unavailable in many parts of the country.
Now, for all of my faithful readers, it is time to fix that problem
with a cake mix that should be available everywhere. Many of the
ingredients have changed to create an even more tender, chocolatey
cookie that can be the same color as the real thing if you decide to
add some brown paste food coloring. You will also note that the
method has been improved to create cookies that are more uniform in
size by using a spice bottle lid on the thinly rolled out dough. This
will allow you to make your wafers faster, and they will all be the
same size. The filling recipe remains the same, and can be found on
page 68 of More Top Secret Recipes.

Combine the cookie ingredients in a large bowl. Add the water a
little bit at a time until the dough forms. Cover and chill for 2
hours.

Preheat oven to 350?F.

On a lightly floured surface roll out a portion of the dough to just
under one 16" thick. To cut, use a lid from a spice container with a
1-1/2" diameter. Schilling brand is good. Arrange the cut dough
rounds on a cookie sheet that is sprayed with a light coating of
non-stick spray. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove wafers from the oven and
cool completely.

As the cookies bake, make the filling (recipe in More Top Secret
Recipes on page 68).

When the cookies have cooled, roll a heaping 1/4 ts filling into a
ball, just over 1/4" in diameter, and press it between two of the
cookies. Repeat with the remaining cookies.

* This is an optional step to help recreate the color of the original
cookie. If you do not use the paste food coloring be sure to change
the amount of water added to the wafer cookies from 3 tb to 1/4 cup.
The food coloring gives the cookies the dark brown, almost black
color. The coloring can be found with cake decorating supplies at art
supply and craft stores.

Tips:

If the dough seems too tacky, you can work in as much as 1/4 cup of
flour as you pat out and roll the dough. Use just enough flour to
make the dough workable, but not tough.

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