The virtues of Doublestuff Oreos

[chocolatetartguy]

I don't like the stuff in regular Oreos. I dislike the doublestuff doubly. However, the doublestuff is thick enough to peel it off the chocolate cookies. Oreos without the stuff. Chocolate heaven! No fair scraping off with a knife.

[burlgurl]

here is the absolute reason for Double Stuff Oreos....Oreo ice cream cake. They are a must to put a pack of double stuff's into a food processor with vanilla ice cream and put into a cookie crust. Bam...AMAZING@@@@@@!!!!!!!!!

[librarinan]

A couple of months ago, I saw a container of just the cookie part of Oreos, although they were a bit larger, maybe 2.5" diameter. I bought them and used my own icing to fill them. My sister is also not a fan of the filling, so when I went back, I got her a container of the cookies. (I think she made ice cream sandwiches of some of them.) The next time I went, they were nowhere to be found. This was at Ocean State Job Lot in Athol MA. I still look for them but it may have been just a one-time thing.
I also love the Nabisco Famous Wafers. Like Mallomars, they may be seasonal.

[vegasmike]

For those who remember Hydrox, much better than Oreos, but disappeared through the years as the company was sold to Keebler's. They tried to introduce them again as Droxies, but did not use the original recipe. Tuxedos, Safeway's private brand taste like Hydrox and much, much better than Oreos.

[lilmomma]

I will have to try the Tuxedos. I nwhat way do they taste better than oreos?

[chocolatetartguy]

I do remember Hydrox. Was that the brand from Sunshine Baking or is that a third competitor. I always preferred Oreos, but will try Tuxedos when I get over oding on Oreos and Famous Wafers. I've had my fill of chocolate cookies for this week.

[Tripeler]

I don't know why Oreo doesn't just release the stuffing in a jar, like marshmallow creme.

[lilmomma]

And perhaps, they should make half stuff, for those who just want a tiny schmear of stuff!

[winedude]

I think if they actually just released the stuffing in a jar, once we saw what was in it, they'd have to mark it as toxic (based on fat content). I say this as someone who loves the stuff.

[laliz]

I don't like the stuffing, so I don't like the double stuffed.

Famous Wafers (in my area, So California) are found above the ice cream case, with the ice cream toppings.

Now, if you were talking White Fudge Oreos, those are divine.

[FarFar]

I read in my paper this morning that they're about to roll out "Triplestuf Oreos" (or are they "Double Double Stuf"?). There will be three chocolate cookies filled with one layer of vanilla cream and one layer of chocolate cream. This type of Oreo apparently has been available previously in Argentina and now they're going to introduce it in the States.

[jpc8015]

The stuffing in the middle of the Double Stuff Oreos is thick enough to be peeled off in one piece. This means you can stack multiple layers of double stuffed filling between two chocolate wafers.

[mpjmph]

Always good to know I'm not the only one out there making quadruple stuf'd oreos.

[kathleen440]

How about this?

[chocolatetartguy]

Like I said, I don't like the stuff, but you are a mad genius. How long did it take to fashion that oreo stuff tower?

[kathleen440]

Ha! Sadly, not my creation - it's popped up on Reddit a few times and I'm just cross-posting it here.

[chefathome]

That is brilliant!

I am NOT a fan of commercial Oreos - never have been, never will be. Homemade are far better in my opinion. However, if someone were to force me to choose between the wafer and the filling I would pick the filling.

[bobbert]

The same technique also alllows you to make quadruple stuff'd E L Fudge's

[Humbucker]

They should make "Just Stuf" Oreos for those you just want the insides.

[PotatoHouse]

Heretic.

[acgold7]

I'm pretty sure the Nabsico Famous Wafers are just the cookie part. You could just buy those.

[chocolatetartguy]

Easier said than done. I have never seen those in stores, although maybe I should be haunting Dollar stores. Anyway they are evidently thinner cookies than the oreo cookies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...

[acgold7]

That article's pretty old. I've seen them in most supermarkets in my area, but they may be only regionally available. Amazon has them, as do a few eBay resellers and some other online vendors, including some food service suppliers. They may not in fact be what you want, but they are available for anyone who wants them.

[chocolatetartguy]

Left work early yesterday after finishing a project and found Famous Wafers at the 2nd store I looked, a Safeway (and the 1st was a drug store that has little selection). There were only 6 boxes and they were shunted to the side with the Pepperidge Farm and odd brand cookies. Funny thing was that a couple walking by me at checkstand saw the box, got very excited and asked where they were stocked. She said they were very hard to find in Northern Ca and they ended up in line behind me.

They were very like Oreo's and may be the same batter. They are crisper as one might expect from their thinness. I think I like Oreo's better and for the price of one box of Famous Wafers, I can buy 2 of Oreos at the Grocery Outlet. I had never heard of them before your post.

[acgold7]

Well, at least I'm glad you were able to find and try them. Like you, I too prefer the cookie part of the Oreo to the filling -- I guess that makes us heathens. I use the Famous Wafers for pie crusts when I don't want all that Crisco + Sugar in them, especially when the recipe calls for added butter and sugar anyway.

But it is ironic that the wafers are way more expensive than the Oreos (or maybe not -- I guess shortening & sugar as raw materials are cheaper than the whole Oreo process). What's weirder is that at my local Restaurant Supply place, broken Oreo *pieces* are more expensive than whole Oreos.

I remember reading the Post article years ago and assuming they weren't available locally anymore and panicking and overpaying for a whole bunch online, and then being chagrined to find that all my local stores had them, and to this day mostly still do....

[chocolatetartguy]

Well, thank you for telling about them. I have eaten Nabisco cookies all my life and nver heard of them here in California. I was really looking forward to a difficult search for Famous Wafers but there they were, albeit away from the other Nabisco products.

Next thing, you're going to tell me there are crispy Lorna Doones!

I suppose there are better crispy chocolate cookies around, but aside from those at Greens To Go in San Francisco, I can't think of any.

[acgold7]

Um.... about those crispy Lorna Doone's.... some of the articles that came up when I Googled the Famous wafers *did* mention some other flavors, but they are long since discontinued.

Have you tried the crispy Mini Chocolate Chip cookies at Trader Joe's? My kids can go through a two-pound tub at one sitting. The clerk at our local store says she likes them with milk poured over them, like cereal. Ethereal.

[chocolatetartguy]

Not a fan of TJ's, but shop for my mom there and will look for those mini CC cookies.

I seldom eat cereal with added sugar, which allows me to binge on sugary treats that are supposed to be sugary. For me the stuff in the Oreo is not worth the calories.

I think I'll eat the rest of my oreos tonight.

[acgold7]

Just for fun I checked around today and for those of us on the left coast, both Safeway and Albertson's have Famous Chocolate Wafers on the shelf with all the other cookies. About $4.75 per box, more or less.