Homemade Soft Oreos From a Cake Mix
on Sep 17, 2012, Updated Aug 22, 2024
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These cake mix soft Oreos are seriously divine and everything you need if you love chocolatey, creamy, and fun desserts!
Oh boy! I am so excited to refresh this recipe with new photos and updated content because it means I have to make and enjoy these soft Oreo beauties once more… And they are a favorite around here. Think whoopie pie meets classic Oreo cookies if you’ve never had them.
If you aren’t in the mood for soft and cake-y, you might like my other recipe for more traditional Oreos. Either way, you can’t really go wrong with a homemade Oreo, soft or crunchy. Pour yourself a tall glass of milk, get your favorite helpers in the kitchen to stir and shape, and have a ball with these easy, delicious homemade Oreos!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- They’re super simple to whip up for a fun dessert for kids (and you) that is no fuss and delicious.
- These cakey, soft chocolate cookies envelop rich and creamy cream cheese frosting that is to die for. If you like chocolate, frosting, and irresistible sweets, you’ll want to add this recipe to your grocery list, stat!
- You can use store-bought vanilla or cream cheese frosting to make this recipe even easier and quicker!
Recipe Ingredients
- Devil’s Food cake mix
- Eggs
- Oil
See the recipe card below for full information on ingredients and quantities.
How to Make Homemade Soft Oreos From a Cake Mix
Step 1: Add the cake mix, eggs, and oil to a large bowl and beat until thoroughly combined.
Step 2: Roll the dough into balls and flatten them.
Step 3: Bake the cookies for 7 to 8 minutes.
Step 4: Take the cookies, place the filling in the center, and press it until the filling comes to the edge of the cookie. Enjoy!
Recipe FAQs
You can use store-bought vanilla or cream cheese frosting, but I prefer and love an easy homemade cream cheese frosting made of butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and powdered sugar. It’s the best!
Once your homemade Oreos are cooled and iced, store extra in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. You can also freeze them for up to 2 to 3 months.
Bake your cookie dough for 7 to 8 minutes at 350 degrees. The cookies have a pretty short baking time because you want them to be very soft. Allowing them to sit on the pan out of the oven allows them to cook a bit more from the heat of the pan without getting crispy from the heat of the oven.
Expert Tips
- Roll the dough into balls slightly larger than a quarter and place them on a greased baking sheet 2 inches apart.
- Use the bottom of a glass cup to flatten the dough balls to 1/2-inch thick.
- When the cookies are cool, match them with a mate according to size and press it until the filling comes to the edge of the cookies.
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Homemade Soft Oreos from a cake mix
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- 1 box Devil's Food cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup oil
For the icing filling:
- 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
- 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- Splash of milk, if needed
- -OR-
- 1 container of cream cheese or vanilla frosting
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Add the cake mix, eggs, and oil to a large bowl, and beat with an electric mixer until thoroughly combined. Roll the dough into balls that are a little bigger than a quarter, and place them on a greased baking sheet 2 inches apart.
- Use the bottom of a glass cup to flatten the dough balls to 1/2-inch thick. Bake the cookies for 7 to 8 minutes. Remove from the oven, and allow the cookies to remain on the baking sheet for 5 minutes.
- Place the cookies on a wire rack, and allow to cool completely before adding icing.
- For the icing, cream the butter, cream cheese, and vanilla until combined. Add the powdered sugar and stir to incorporate. The icing should be a medium to medium-thin consistency. If you need a slash of milk to thin it out, you can add it and remix. If it is too thin add a bit more powdered sugar.
- If you don’t want to make icing you can use store-bought. You know which is better. 😉
- When the cookies are cool, match them with a mate according to size. Take one cookie and place a few tablespoons of the filling in the center on the flat bottom of the cookie. Take the mate and place it on top (flat sides together), and press it until the filling comes to the edge of the cookies.
- Store any extras in an airtight container.
Notes
- The cookies have a pretty short baking time because you want them to be very soft. Allowing them to sit on the pan out of the oven allows them to cook a bit more from the heat of the pan without getting crispy from the heat of the oven.
- Bake your cookie dough for 7 to 8 minutes at 350 degrees F.
- Allowing them to sit on the pan out of the oven allows them to cook a bit more on the pan’s heat without getting crispy.
- This recipe can be tweaked to make different varieties of Oreos, such as Oreo Balls, Oreo Mint Cookies, or even regular Oreo Cookies!
Stolen from Taste of Home.
Highly possible, I got the recipe from my friend Ashley and didn’t ask where she got the recipe from. Stolen is a pretty strong word for a list of ingredients though, I wrote up my own instructions and took my own pictures…
How many cookies does this recipe yield? TIA
Hi, this makes about 2 dozen cookies.
Just finished baking a batch of these delicious gems. I had to refrigerate my dough as it was too sticky to work with right after mixing. Do any leftover cookies need to be refrigerated due to the cream cheese in the filling?
Thanks!
I like to keep them in the fridge because of that reason!
Ooh, homemade Oreo cookies are definitely fab, but then you make them with a cake mix?? Yum!
Thanks so much for entering the cookie contest!
Great recipe! I just wanted to let you know I featured it in my round-up of recipes with cake mix.
https://www.recipechatter.com/recipes-using-cake-mix/
Have a great day!
Took a look, loved it, and pinned it! Thank you!
These are my favorite quick cookie. I am a lover of oreos. Thanks for posting this. I think I am going to go and make some today:) Yum Yum.
You can thanks Ashley Esplin for introducing them to me 🙂 It must be an Orderville thing!
Are you not allowed to call them Whoopie pies? My sister Cindy is obsessed with theses. Corner Bakery has the best ones ever. I may have to make her these and see if they compare.
Whoopie pies are bit different in my book! The cake is more domed and is a lot fluffier, but the concept is the same. I actually have a whoopie pie recipe in the wings that you’ll have to try too!
Ahhh. I see. Well now you are forcing me to make them both to compare. 😉
Those look yummy! And so pretty too. Temptress I tel you TEMPTRESS!!! What is going on down there?
A whole lotta something! I need to call you…
Oh my goodness! These look delicious!