I'm the only girl in my house which means we don't see much of the color pink, so when Valentine's Day rolls around I finally have an excuse to bake and decorate with pink!
What could be better than pink cookies?!
Strawberry Valentine Oreo Cookies Recipe:
(Recipe adapted from 30 Handmade Days)
Cookies:
1 package of strawberry cake mix
2 eggs
3/4 cup of shortening
Frosting:
8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 stick of butter, softened
2 tsp. vanilla
4 c. powdered sugar
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix together strawberry cake mix, eggs and shortening until well combined. The dough will be pretty thick. Roll dough into balls, making sure they are all similar in size. Place dough onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8 minutes. Immediately transfer cookies to a cooking rack.
Mix together cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar until smooth. Spread onto cooled cookies and sandwich together.
*Makes 12-15 cookies after they are sandwiched together
These look fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI love a good cake mix cookie!!! and Strawberry...yummy!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo gorgeous and fun - my girls with love these!
ReplyDeleteMary x
Look yummy & what little girl wouldn't love pink cookies? :)
ReplyDeleteI cannot wait to make these!
ReplyDeleteI will definitely be making these - I have strawberry cake mix I've been needing to use! Thanks so much :)
ReplyDeleteyum!!!
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Just a question. I'm interested in making these, and I LOVE cream cheese, but for those who might not like cream cheese frosting, do you happen to have alternative suggestions for the filling? Would regular store bought frosting work? Just curious!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of shortening did you use? These look lucious and want to make them. I like cake mix cookies, too.
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Pretty cookies! And yummy too. :)
ReplyDeleteThese look like fun!
ReplyDelete@Dianne,
ReplyDeleteI just used regular vegetable shortening. Thanks!
@Renee,
ReplyDeleteI think vanilla store bought frosting would be great or here is a link to homemade frosting that would be good, too.
http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2011/11/sugar-cookie-bars-and-moms-frosting.html
Oh My! Yummo! These look too delicious! I may have to make these next weekend for my SundaySchool class...this goes beyond a little bribery tho, they had better be soo good! ;)
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ReplyDeleteI feel silly but I am ready to make these and am thinking - do I include the ingredients on the cake mix box too - or just the eggs and shortening?
ReplyDeleteUhhh, that gooey icing totally grabbed me-these look amazing:) I would love it if you stopped by to share this at my linky party going on right now:)
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Drooling over here !!! I so need to try these.
ReplyDeleteWay way cute idea! If I had a strawberry cake mix, I would make these tonight.
ReplyDeleteI followed the recipe exactly and my batter was way too soft and gooey to form into balls! Has anyone else actually tried following this recipe? Did I do something wrong??? Too bad, it looked good.
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ReplyDeleteThese look great! I wanted to let you know that I featured this in my "What I Bookmarked This Week" post - stop by and see!
ReplyDelete@riabeth,
ReplyDeleteJust use the cake mix, eggs and shortening. You can ignore what is on the box! :)
Love this!
ReplyDeleteNatasha xx
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I used butter instead of shortening. My batter was very gooey and sticky, but I just used plenty of flour on my hands. However, I ended up with half my frosting left over! Unless you want tons of frosting in your cookies, halve that part of the recipe!
ReplyDeleteJust tried these (found them on pinterest) and they are delicious! Thanks for the idea!! I did put a little less shortening, but added a tablespoon or so of milk. Yum!
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ReplyDeleteI just made these and they are so cute! I'm wondering, because the frosting is made with butter and cheese do I have to refrigerate the cookies?
ReplyDelete@Erika,
ReplyDeleteI haven't eve kept them in the fridge so they'll be okay either way!
Since I had leftover frosting from my original bath, I decided to make chocolate ones. I used devil's food cake mix, since that's what I already had. At first, I wasn't sure how they would turn out. I ended up cooking the balls for 11 minutes at 350, then flattening them out right after they came out of the oven. They ended up firming up better than the strawberry ones which made it easier to spread the frosting, but they are still super soft when you eat them. They ended up being a winner!
ReplyDeletethey look great! question - can i use butter or oil instead of the shortening?
ReplyDeleteOil would make a really flat cookie. You could try butter just at room temperature, don't melt it. Shortening works the best, just not the healthiest option. Hope this helps. -The Six Sisters
ReplyDeleteLove it! I love that they are pink, too!
ReplyDeleteYour photo so gorgeous - it made me drool...these look delish!
ReplyDeleteI used carrot cake mix not as good as the strawberry..u followed the recipe exact fir the strawberry and mine looked excatly like the picture..
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ReplyDeleteYour yummy recipe is featured this weekend !
Hope you will join us again this weekend :)
Claire @ Polkadotpretties x
these cookies look delicious i wish i could bake but thats why i paint. I would love to feature them , if that would be ok please let me know,
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Lauren, That would be great if you wanted to feature our cookies from Six Sisters Stuff. Thanks so much! -The Six Sisters
DeleteI'm not big on Valentines day (maybe because my birthday is so close?) but these are getting me excited! Hooray for Pinterest. :)
ReplyDeleteI am finding that 8 minutes is definitely not enough time for these to bake through. I'm making them now and have to put them back in the oven for the third time for a total of at least 15 minutes.
ReplyDeleteJust got done making these, and you could definitely cut the 4 cups of sugar in the frosting to two! Yowza super-sweet, but gooooood!
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