Semi-homemade oreos

My darling daughter requested homemade oreos tonight.  This needed to happen as quickly as possible, so I turned to a recipe using a cake mix and voila!  Success!

 recipe from: your cup of cake
Semi-Homemade Oreos

Yield: 24 cookies, 12 sandwiches

Ingredients

Cookies:

1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix

2 eggs

1/3 cup oil

Filling:

4 ounces cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 1/2 - 2 cups powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Mix Devil's Food Cake mix, eggs and oil in a bowl, the dough will be thick.

3. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper and make dough balls smaller than the size of golf balls.

4. Place dough balls on cookie sheets, about 12 per sheet and pat down to make disks with fingers.

5. Bake for 7-10 minutes.

6. Let cool on cookie sheets for 3 minutes and then move to cooling racks.

7. !Filling: Beat cream cheese and butter for 3 minutes. Add powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Thicken with more powdered sugar if needed.

8. Frost the bottoms of half the cookies (once cooled) and sandwich them!

Place cookies in a tupperware and chill for at least an hour. *I didn't do this.  I served them immediately and they were awesome!