Imagine the icing and crunchiness of an Oreo united with the chocolate and soft dough of a chocolate chip cookie in one recipe- sounds too good to be real.

Meet the Oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookie – a thick chocolate chip cookie with an entire Oreo stuck in the center. If you already have a guilty pleasure food, these unique cookies might take their place; you have been warned.

This recipe was adapted from tablespoon.com.

Oreo-stuffed chocolate chip cookies

Total cook time: 50 minutes

Servings: 12

2 sticks butter, softened

¾ cup light brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 cup sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

3 ½ cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

10 oz chocolate chips

1 package double-stuffed Oreo cookies

Preheat oven to 350 F. In a large mixing bowl combine butter, sugars, and cream with a fork or mixer until well combined. Next add in the eggs and vanilla and continue to cream until it reaches a smooth consistency.

In a separate mixing bowl, pour and mix together the flour, the baking soda, salt and mix. Add this dry mixture gradually to the butter and sugar mixture until there is no flour left and dough has been formed.

Adding theses ingredients in increments ensures the flour mix will not clump in the cookie dough and will be evenly spread out throughout the mixture. Finally, sprinkle the chocolate chips into the dough mixture and thoroughly mix with your hands or a spoon.

Once the dough is ready, it is now time to turn the chocolate chip cookies into Oreo-stuffed cookies. Remove the Oreo cookies from the package, then take a palm-sized clump of cookie dough and place half on the top and half on the bottom of one Oreo. Join the top and bottom clumps together until you cannot see the Oreo any longer.

Once the Oreo is engulfed, roll into a ball and place on a baking sheet. Repeat this process until you run out of dough or Oreos.

Place the finished dough balls on a baking sheet sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Be sure not to have the cookies too close to each other in the oven as they will expand considerably.

Bake 8-13 minutes depending on preference of softness or crunchiness.

Once the cookies turn a light golden brown color, they are ready. Remove from oven and set on stove top.

Allow to cool for 5 minutes and transfer to a cooling rack. To enhance your cookie-making experience, invite some friends over and enjoy a glass of milk with the cookies whey they are done.

For an innovative and fun alternative to the usual chocolate chip cookie, the Oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookie delivers the best of both worlds. I suppose engaging in the easy way, that being using pre-made dough, to make these would be fine, but the feeling of making the dough and assembling cookies from scratch is very satisfying.

These cookies also offer a spark of creativity to make them even more unique. Using the many different kinds of Oreos, such as peanut butter filled, mint flavored, berry splash, or even fudge cake as the center of the chocolate chip cookie create distinguishing flavors coupled with the warm goodness that is the chocolate chip cookie.

So go out and begin your creations, putting your own signature to these cookies. Gather the friends, some milk and watch their faces light up as they dive into these truly unique dessert treats with nearly endless possibilities; I guarantee that you will not regret it.

Cody Powell-McClintick can be reached at [email protected]