Buffeos
The UC-Boulder Buffalo gets the Oreo treatment with these cookies, which is a signature item at the university's bakeshop.
Ingredients
Cookie dough
Yield: 144 single 1 oounce layers
3 lb. cold butter
1 ½ lb. sugar
2 lb. + 14 oz. flour
1 tsp. salt
12 oz. cocoa powder
Filling
Yield: 1 oz. per cookie
6 oz. sugar
5 lb. cream cheese or mascarpone
1 ½ tsp. vanilla
3 lb. + 15 oz. marshmallow crème
Steps
1. For dough: Combine butter and sugar, mix low speed for 15 seconds. Add flour, salt and cocoa powder, mix 3 to 5 minutes, until dough attaches.
2. Roll out to ¼ inch thickeness. With buffalo cookie cutter, cut out cookies. Place on baking sheet and chill. Bake at 300°F for 15 to 20 minutes.
3. For filling: Cream sugar and cream cheese. Add vanilla and marshmallow cream until filling is soft.
Recipe by University of Colorado, Boulder