Remember sitting down to school lunch, zipping open your lunchbox, and seeing that Mom sent you with oatmeal cream pies for dessert? That was the best feeling in the world. Now that you’re an adult, you can treat yourself to oatmeal cream pies for dessert anytime you please! But rather than the store-bought version, you can make Sunny Anderson‘s Brown Butter Oatmeal Cream Pies instead to give your favorite childhood treat a majorly good upgrade.
To make Anderson’s version of these delicious and nostalgic treats, you first want to start with rolled oats. Half of these oats will be blitzed in the food processor, and the other half will stay whole. To your oats, add flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.
Next, melt your butter in a pan on medium-low heat until it becomes foamy, rich, and brown. This will take between five and eight minutes. Put your butter into a bowl, add in your brown sugar and granulated sugar, and blend these three ingredients together with a hand mixer until everything is dissolved. Then, add an egg and mix until the batter becomes creamy. Add your oat mixture to this and blend well before scooping dollops of your batter onto a cookie sheet.
And the best part about these cream pies is that Anderson likes to use store-bought frosting in the center — no need to go above and beyond when you don’t have to! Once the cookies are cooled, you can spread some of your favorite cream cheese frosting on each flat side and stick two of them together to create your delicious oatmeal cream pies.
“These are way better second or third day,” Anderson said in the above clip from The Kitchen, because this will give the cookies and frosting time to set and become super crunchy. But you definitely have to give them a taste test before putting them away until then.
Grab the full recipe for Anderson’s Brown Butter Oatmeal Cream Pies and get hit by that nostalgia wave.
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