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Say hello to the cookie of your dreams: studded with crushed chocolate sandwich cookies and a layer of sweet vanilla cream filling hidden inside.

These deeply chocolate, delightfully chewy cookies are sure to be a fast favorite with their intensely chocolate chew and bits of crunchy cookie throughout, not to mention the heavenly cream filling.

Take one cookie, disassemble it and stuff it inside another cookie… is that considered cookie cannibalism?

If that’s wrong, well, I don’t want to be right.

These soft and chewy chocolate cookies are ever so decadent, made with ample amounts of rich, Dutch-processed cocoa and studded with crushed up sandwich cookies that also gives these cookies a delightful crunch.

Sounds good, doesn’t it?

And I certainly could’ve stopped there and had myself a fantastic cookies ‘n cream cookie recipe.

But, if you know me at all, you know that I like to take things over the top… which typically involves stuffing one good thing inside another good thing (indeed, stuffed desserts are some of my favorite things to make).

And so, I stuffed these already over-the-top cookies with a hidden layer of vanilla cream.

I love stuffed cookies because they look so innocent on the outside… or, well, not exactly innocent in this case (they look downright sinful), but just by looking at it you really have no idea as to the sheer level of deliciousness you’re biting into.

Don’t get me wrong, these cookies look amazing, mouth-watering even. But that outer appeal is still no match for the extra layer of vanilla cream hidden inside.

Even better, get one that’s still warm out of the oven, when the vanilla cream almost oozes out as you bite into it. Swoon.

The act of stuffing these cookies ‘n cream cookies is a lot like some of my other stuffed cookie recipes (from White chocolate-stuffed to marzipan stuffed to maraschino cherry stuffed… I told you I liked stuffing things).

First you’ll need to extract your cream filling. This involves slicing (or twisting, if you’re skilled) the cream filling off of the chocolate cookies (don’t waste the cookies themselves, finely ground and mixed with butter they make for one of my favorite pie crusts, for this chocolate chip cookie pie, for example, or this crunchy peanut butter chocolate tart). Stack two pats of cream together, one double stack per cookie.

Then take one ball of dough (I use a medium cookie scoop here for consistent sizing), split it in half, roll and press each half out into a smooth circle, then place your filling in the middle. Press around the edges to seal the filling inside, forming a puck-shaped piece of dough.

I wanted the outside of the cookies to hint at the cookies ‘n cream inside, so I also pressed a few pieces of crushed cookies into the top of each unbaked dough ball. As the cookie bakes, these pieces will spread out but stay on top of the cookie, resulting in a picture perfect final product that gives your eyes a taste of what’s inside.

I figure you’ve got 3 options with this recipe:

unstuffed. Just bake up the batter as is (with the crushed up cookies), and you’ve got one hell of a cookie.

stuffed. carefully separate the cream filling from some double stuf sandwich cookies, stack two of them together, and wrap your dough around it.

extra stuffed. why not stuff an entire cookie inside? (you’ll need a bit more dough, more like 45g instead of 35g).

So yes, you could certainly stuff an entire Oreo into the middle (there are lots of cookie recipes out there that do this), but I like using just the filling (I find the overall size of the cookie more reasonable and the cookie-to-filling ratio more balanced).

I personally prefer Trader Joe’s Joe Joes – the filling has a more prominent natural vanilla flavor and isn’t as overly sweet as the name brand Oreos. I also found that it was much easer to extract the Joe Joes filling than the Oreos (the later seemed more ‘stuck’ to the cookie itself); it also got meltier in the oven (making the act of biting into a warm cookie a truly transcendent experience).

You could also play with flavors here—I imagine the candy cane Joe Joes would turn these into an amazing Christmas cookie, same for the mint Oreos or even something like pumpkin spice. Hello lover.