Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies

For those of you who don't know, I love to bake.  Part of the reason why I love it is due to my sweet tooth. I love me some cookies.  However, the biggest reason is to share the final product with others.

Cookies = Happiness

I can thank my mom for my love of baking.  She has taught me a lot of valuable lessons in life, but the most important is how to bake.  I know I'll never be as good as she is, but I will certainly try my best!

Every year at Christmas time, I do a baking marathon, where I spend a whole week baking as many cookies as I can.  There are the staple cookies that I like to include every year in my offering, but sometimes I like to switch it up and toss a new recipe into the mix.  I don't want to brag, but people love these cookies so much that when I walk in the door on Christmas Eve holding my GIANT platter of cookies, instead of "ALISON IS HERE!" I'm usually greeted with "ALISON'S COOKIES ARE HERE!"

My husband, Sam, and I were craving a little sweet treat the other day.  After searching Pinterest for a while, making sure to pin lots of things that would be handy when I renovate my bathroom in the house I don't own and a bunch of hair dos that I will spend several minutes at before giving up and throwing my hair up in a knot, I found a winner!  The recipe can be found here and it. is. DELICIOUS!  I am a HUGE fan of Little Debbie's Oatmeal Cream Pies, but they don't compare to these bad boys.  The recipe was pretty easy and I followed it exactly until the frosting.  I added a bunch of extra powered sugar, like..a bunch more.  I ended up using 12 tablespoons so that it didn't just taste like cream cheese.

These guys have made the cut for the Christmas platter this year.

If you are a fan of oatmeal cream pies, I strongly suggest you try these!  Let me know what you think in the comments.  I look forward to hearing from you! :)

Here are some photos of that time I made the most delicious cookies, ever.

Here is the link to the recipe again, just in case you missed it above:  YUM!


--Alison--