{"id":1940,"date":"2013-06-18T00:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T07:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.sugarhero.com\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2024-01-08T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T19:21:58","slug":"cookies-and-cream-oreo-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sugarhero.com\/cookies-and-cream-oreo-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookies and Cream Oreo Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These Cookies and Cream Oreo Bars have the perfect elements of a beautifully crunchy Oreo crust and soft, fudgy blondie!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You might be familiar with Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick<\/em>, driven mad by his search for the white whale. The story’s all well and good, in an English Literature 201 sort of way, but believe me when I tell you that that<\/em> guy’s obsessiveness has nothing on me and my own hunt for an unattainable object of desire—the perfect white chocolate blondie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you follow me on facebook<\/a>, you may have seen my anguished post about these bar cookies. I made them four times last week, struggling to get them to match the vision in my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted a bar with a crunchy Oreo cookie base, and a moist, fudgy blondie texture that wasn’t cakey but wasn’t at all greasy. The white chocolate flavor had to be pronounced, but not cloying, and they couldn’t suffer from the familiar high sides\/sunken center malady that so many brownies and blondies experience. In short, they had to match a perfect bar that I had dreamt up, and wouldn’t it be swell if I could get all of those attributes right on the first attempt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, it didn’t happen on the first try…or the second. The third version was probably the worst one of all, and got unceremoniously tossed after an exploratory bite or two. But the fourth attempt, the recipe I’m sharing with you, is magic. I don’t know how much farther I can take the Moby-Dick<\/em> analogy without grossing you out, but just in case we’re not there yet,  I harpooned<\/em> that sucker and got my white whale. And it tasted like victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The combination of a crunchy Oreo cookie crust and a soft, fudgy blondie is wonderful—you really need both elements of these bars to balance one another out. The blondie batter itself has white chocolate folded into it, in addition to white chocolate chips and chunks of Oreo cookies. White chocolate desserts can easily become too sweet, so the barely sweetened cookies help offset that. You can also add some dark chocolate chunks instead or in addition to the white ones, but I wanted to keep the cookie and cream flavor pure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think this picture above gives you a great sense of the final texture—rich, soft, and definitely more like a fudgy brownie than your typical bar cookie. I’m excited to think of the other variations I can make with this base recipe—I think a “berries and cream” version, with freeze-dried strawberries or raspberries, would be amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you find yourself with extra Oreos after making these bars, put them to good use in Oreo Fudge<\/a>, Cookies and Cream Cake<\/a>, Dirt Pudding Cups<\/a>, or Mini Oreo Icebox Cakes<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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