These Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies are soft, chewy oatmeal cookies sandwiched around sweet marshmallow creme filling making these the BEST grown up version of your favorite childhood snack. Sorry Little Debbie!
Here we go!! If you only knew how long I have wanted to make this recipe for Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies .. not because I wanted them but because I NEEDED them.
You see, my favorite sweet treat from days (decades!) past has always been Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies.
That soft cookie sandwich was a dream come true to a kid like me! I absolutely loved oatmeal creme pies!!!
To this day, I cannot walk by and pass them up if I see them on sale. The ‘sale’ part is my gateway excuse … I mean, really, how do you not buy them if they are on sale?
Now, let me admit that I have no excuse for making these Oatmeal Cream Pies.. no birthday that needed a dessert .. no kids bake sale .. no celebration or relationship break up that needed mending ..
Nope, Nope, Nope! Just an insane craving for a sweet and chewy oatmeal whoopie pie and my sweet tooth was happily rewarded for it’s bad behavior.
This is the part where I have to confess what a bad person I am … I didn’t want to share these Copycat Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies with anyone.
Seriously, I mean I didn’t want to even share these with my husband and legally, I have to!
I will even go one step further and say that when Dog #1, #2, #3 and even #4 all looked up with me with those sweet puppy dog please feed me mommy eyes …. well ….
we will just stop there because I am too ashamed to say that those poor neglected dogs continued to starve in that moment.
*Side note … for the record, A) nothing starves in this house EVER which is why we are all chubby and B) those dogs are more spoiled than the Kardashians!
Why These Are The BEST Oatmeal Creme Pies!
- These are homemade oatmeal cream pies!
- You control the amount of marshmallow creme filling you put in the middle of you cookie sandwiches.
- Tons of flavor!!
- Soft, chewy oatmeal cookies and melt in your mouth fluffy marshmallow creme filling!!
- You are helping the environment by not needing to discard the plastic wrappers from the individually wrapped Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Sandwiches.
- No one can judge you based on how many you eat since there is no predetermined amount specified on a box.
To make this soft oatmeal cream-filled cookie sandwich, you will need:
- Dark brown sugar
- Sugar
- Butter
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
- Cinnamon
- Molasses
- Cocoa powder
- Baking soda
- Baking Powder
- Quick Oats
- Butter flavored shortening
- Powdered sugar
- Marshmallow fluff
How to Make Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies
To make your Oatmeal Cream Pies, preheat oven to 375 degrees and line your cookie sheet pans with parchment paper.
Grab a large mixing bowl and cream together the butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and creamy. Mix in the the molasses, vanilla and egg.
Combine the flour, salt, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, ginger and cinnamon and slowly add to the sugar mixture.
Stir in the oats and using a large spoon or cookie scoop, drop 2 tablespoon size cookies on your prepared baking cookie sheet pans. Bake for 9-11 minutes.
They will spread out a bit and will appear under-cooked when you remove them from the oven. Let them sit on the pan for 1 minute before moving them gently to a baking rack to cool.
Once the oatmeal cookies are completely cool, make the marshmallow filling.
In small bowl, dissolve the salt in the hot water and set aside to cool while you make the rest of the filling. In a large mixing bowl, combine marshmallow cream, shortening, powdered sugar, and vanilla.
Beat mixture 1 – 2 minutes or until fluffy. Add the cooled salt water and mix well until incorporated.
Spread filling on flat side of one cookie and press second cookie on top. Leftover Oatmeal Cream Pies can be stored in an airtight container within the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Pro Tips for Perfect Oatmeal Cream Pies
- To get the perfect texture. pulse your oats in a food processor 3-4 times before adding them to the cookie batter. You want smaller pieces, not crumbs.
- Be sure to match up similar size cookies together before you start frosting.
- Make sure your cookies have cooled completely before you start frosting them. If not, your marshmallow creme filling will melt everywhere and you will be sad.
- I always have old-fashioned whole rolled oats in my pantry but they will not work in this recipe. You can make you own quick oats by measuring 3 cups of whole rolled oats and pulsing them in the food processor 4-5 times.
- This filling recipe makes alot! I like double filling in my oatmeal sandwich cookies 🙂
That’s IT! That right there is how easy it is to gain 50 lbs in a week, if left unsupervised.
Seriously, these Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies are so soft and chewy and completely addictive!
Now see how good of a person you REALLY are when it comes to having to share these with the same people that live in the house with you.
Natural selection, indeed.
More Easy Cookie Recipes
- Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
- Chewy Snickerdoodle Cookies
- Soft Baked Orange Sugar Cookies
- Copycat Lofthouse Sugar Cookies
- Green Christmas Crinkle Cookies
Enjoy!
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Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies
Ingredients
Oatmeal Cookies
- 1 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups quick oats
Cream Filling
- 4 teaspoons very hot water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 14 ounce jar marshmallow cream
- 1 cup shortening
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- To make your Oatmeal Cream Pies, preheat oven to 375 degrees and line your cookie sheet pans with parchment paper.
- Grab a large mixing bowl and cream together the butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and creamy. Mix in the molasses, vanilla and egg. Combine the flour, salt, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon and slowly add to the sugar mixture. Stir in the oats and using a large spoon or cookie scoop, drop 3 tablespoon size cookies on your prepared baking cookie sheet pans. Bake for 9-11 minutes.
- They will spread out a bit and will appear under-cooked when you remove them from the oven. Let them sit on the pan for 1 minute before moving them gently to a baking rack to cool. Once the oatmeal cookies are completely cool, make the marshmallow filling.
- In small bowl, dissolve the salt in the hot water and set aside to cool while you make the rest of the filling. In a large mixing bowl, combine marshmallow cream, shortening, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Beat mixture 1 - 2 minutes or until fluffy. Add the cooled salt water and mix well until incorporated. Spread filling on flat side of one cookie and press second cookie on top. Leftover Oatmeal Cream Pies can be stored in an airtight container within the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Notes
Nutrition
Update Notes: This post was originally published in August of 2018 but was republished with an updated recipe, new photos, step by step instructions and tips in April of 2020.
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