Ube Oreos - Casa Creatures - Modern Twist on a Classic Cookie (2024)

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Why stick with normal Oreos when you can have Ube Oreos? This classic cookie got a new look and flavor with the addition of our favorite ingredient, ube! The purple color and ube taste makes this such a unique cookie to bake.

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My obsession for America’s Favorite Cookie has taken me to pursue making them myself. After watching one of my favorite bakers, Claire Saffitz, make her version of Gourmet Oreos, and being inspired by King Arthur Flour’s Faux-Reos recipe, I decided to try it myself! I loved the black cocoa version, but the ube extract in my pantry enticed me to try something different.

I shared these with a few of my friends and family, and they even preferred these Ube Oreos to the “classic” recipe! And what’s not to love about these? The ube flavor is a complex vanilla meets coconut taste, and the vanilla buttercream has the same texture as an Oreo filling, but a much more pleasant aftertaste and mouthfeel. While I don’t have a cookie press to make these into more decorative looking cookies, I love the sheen they have!

Tips on making homemade ube oreos

In order to deal with the extremely soft cookie dough, you should do a few things:

• Refrigerate the dough for at least 15 minutes. This will make the dough much easier to scoop and roll into balls. While it is possible to roll the dough into balls, I found that the heat from my hands caused the butter to melt a little.
• Use parchment paper (I like using this one). Once the balls are made, you can sandwich them in between a small square of parchment and squish it down with a heavy bottomed glass into your cookie disks. The parchment paper peels off nicely and you won’t have to use more flour to prevent sticking.
• Make sure the thickness of your cookies are at least 3/16″. I found that any thinner, and the oreos were too crisp and browned too much.
• Timing is everything. Test your oven with one or two cookies. I found that mine baked in exactly 10 minutes for perfectly purple colored cookies. They have a nice soft snap and chew. For slightly more crispy cookies, 12-14 minutes works, but some of them had a slight brown tinge on the edges.
• The filling doesn’t have to stop at just vanilla buttercream, you can also try using our homemade ube halaya jam for double ube flavor!

After making these, maybe you’ll want to also try some of our other ube recipes?

Easy Mini Biscoff Ube Cheesecakes

Double Chocolate Ube Cheesecake Swirled Brownies

Easy No-Churn Ube Ice Cream

Better Than Bakery Ube Pandesal

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