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Christmas trees! Christmas ornaments! Christmas Cheer! It’s time to bring out all the decorations and decorate everything in sight. More importantly, it's time to fill the house with the smell of fresh-baked cookies. Chocolate is one ingredient that’s at the top of my holiday baking list. And what could be a better treat to start the season than these dark chocolate sandwich cookies filled with white chocolate ganache. Yum. These pretty trees and ornaments are one of my favorite treats to bake and they’re a cookie that my whole family loves to eat.

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” Norman Vincent Peale

As usual, I made a list of several different kinds of cookies to bake this year and decided to start out with a cutout cookie. Thomas Keller Oreos (TKOs) were the perfect way to get into the holiday spirit. These chocolate sandwich cookies are so rich and the filling is so creamy that I couldn’t resist making them first...to kick off the Christmas baking season. See the Recipes section below for details about ingredients and where to get the recipe.

Thomas Keller’s elegant take on the Oreo cookie is a recipe you’ll be happy you found. It is by far the best chocolate sandwich cookie I’ve ever eaten.

Fun Fact about Original Oreos
50 percent of people
pull their Oreos apart
before eating.

How about you? How do you eat an Oreo cookie?

 

Cookie specifics

What I’ve learned...

These cookies were made with the best ingredients I could find and baked in a small batch of two dozen. I’ve experimented with less expensive ingredients, but have come to the conclusion that flavor is best when I use the best. Why spend all this time baking and decorating if taste and texture are just so-so? Decorating the cookies takes time, but it’s an enjoyable process for me and I know that those who receive them appreciate that. Life is just better when you can share something you love with someone you love. Don’t you agree?

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