If you’ve ever wondered exactly how big an Oreo cookie really is, you’re not alone. A standard Oreo measures about 1.8 inches across, weighs around 11 grams, and holds a nearly perfect balance of 60% chocolate wafer to 40% cream filling. Each cookie has two crisp wafers that are roughly 3 millimeters thick, sandwiching a sweet cream center that’s about 2.5 to 3 millimeters high.
Whether you’re baking, scaling up recipes, or just curious about your favorite cookie’s dimensions, knowing the real size of an Oreo makes it easier to compare, recreate, or remix them at home.
Huge Oreo Cookies
When you scale an Oreo up to a three-inch cookie, everything changes. A regular Oreo is about 1.8 inches wide, so a 3-inch version is roughly 1.6 times larger in diameter and almost three times heavier. That means more chocolate wafer, more cream filling, and a lot more drama. To keep the proportions true, the middle cream needs to be about 4 to 5 millimeters thick, weighing close to 12 grams all on its own. The result is a cookie that looks like an Oreo’s supersized cousin. Familiar, but wildly satisfying to hold and eat.
Does Oreo sell just the cookie?
Unfortunately, Oreo doesn’t officially sell the cookies without the filling, at least not in regular grocery stores. However you can buy the large 3" Oreo wafers online! Mine came from Walmart but you can also get them from the Webstaurant store.
Oreo inside cookie recipe
- Crisco Shortening
- Powdered Sugar
- Vanilla
The creamy center of an Oreo is surprisingly easy to recreate at home. You only need three ingredients: Crisco, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract. Mix them together until the texture turns smooth, and thick, like playdoh that holds its shape. That’s it. This quick blend gives you that signature sweet, slightly firm Oreo filling without any special equipment or long ingredient lists
Equipment
- Stand mixer with paddle attachment
- Parchment Paper
- Rolling Pin
- 3" round biscuit cutter
Recipe
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Huge Oreo Cookies
Ingredients
- 32 3" oreo wafer cookies
- 180 grams shortening about ¾ cup + 2 tablespoons
- 450 grams powdered sugar about 3¾ cups
- 1.5 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- combine shortening and powdered sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
- Mix on medium until combined. Add Vanilla
- Mix a few seconds longer, until a dough forms.
- Place on parchment paper and put another sheet of parchment paper on top.
- Roll out until filling is around 4 mm thick.
- Using a 3" round biscuit cutter, cut circles of filling. Place between two sandwich cookies.
- If cream filling is too warm, place in fridge until workable.
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