Calling all cookies and cream fans! The perfect alternative to ordinary sugar cookies: Cookies and Cream Cut Out Sugar Cookies!

I love my original classic sugar cookie dough, but I thought the holiday cookies needed a shake up this year. So I made these cookies and cream sugar cookies with mixed in Oreo crumbs and they are soooooo good. 

Not only were they tasty, but they also met all the other requirements of a good cookie.  The baked cookies came out with perfect edges and texture.

They also stayed flat on top so they can be decorated with cookie icing easily. Basically, they are everything you want in a good cut out cookie!

Adding crushed cookies to the dough also makes them darker and speckled. The speckled cookie look is perfect for my melted snowman cookies. It reminds me of all the poor snowmen melting on the dirty snowy ground. 

They were also great for making these pine tree cookies! I felt like I could be more lazy about decorating the one on the bottom of this picture. The cookie was already the color of tree branches so no need to fill it in completely, right?

How to Make the Dough

I based the recipe off of my rolled sugar cookie dough which I usually make in a food processor.

Since I had to crush my Oreo cookies anyway, I used the food processor for this dough too. You can use a stand mixer too, but the recipe instructions are for a food processor. 

When crushing the cookies, be sure not to leave large chunks but don’t make it too fine either. If it’s too fine, it will turn the dough too dark and more streaky.

To make the dough, cream the butter and sugar in the food processor. Then add the egg and vanilla and pulse to combine. Add all the dry ingredients last.

It helps to mix all the dry ingredients together first in a bowl  to make sure everything is evenly distributed.

If you find that the dry mixture is not mixing well with the rest of the ingredients in the food processor, then turn it out into a large bowl and mix by hand. There is no need to chill the dough yet.

Rolling the Dough

Divide the dough into two. Roll out each half on a sheet of parchment paper to a quarter inch thickness. It helps to use rolling pin guides to roll evenly.

You can also use two ¼ inch dowels on either side to prevent your dough from getting too thin. Just make sure the rolling pin is always rolling over the dowels. 

Once both portions of dough are rolled out, they should be chilled for at least 30 minutes. Don’t skip this step! This is how you will get perfect edges and shapes. Preheat the oven while the dough chills.

Cutting and Baking

Once the dough is chilled, quickly make your cut outs and bake the cookies while the dough is still firm and cold. If the dough is no longer cold, you should chill the cookies again after cutting them out.