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 Copycat Arby’s Roast Beef

Roast Beef:

Thinly sliced roast beef (several slices for each sandwich you are making)

Beef broth (use as much as you need to cover the amount of roast beef you have)

Arby's Sauce:

1⁄2 cup ketchup

2 Tbsp brown sugar, packed

1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1⁄2 tsp garlic powder

1⁄2 tsp onion powder

Cheese Sauce:

1 Tbsp butter

1 Tbsp flour

1 cup milk

6 oz sharp cheddar cheese, shredded

Instructions:

Bring the broth to a boil. Add in the roast beef slices. Bring back to a boil. Cover and simmer until you’re ready to put your sandwich together. 

For the sauce, mix the ingredients together in a small bowl. For the cheese sauce, melt the butter. Add in the flour. Stir for a minute or two. Add in milk and mix well. Simmer for about 5 minutes to let it thicken. Remove from head and add in shredded cheese. Stir until melted.

Copycat

Oatmeal Cream Pie

Ingredients:

For the cookie:

1 1⁄4 cups all purpose flour

2⁄3 cup quick oats

3⁄4 tsp baking soda

3⁄4 tsp cinnamon

1 stick butter, softened

1⁄4 cup white sugar

3⁄4 cup packed dark brown sugar

1 Tbsp molasses

1⁄2 tsp salt

1 egg, room temp

2 tsp vanilla

For the cream:

1 stick butter, softened

pinch of salt

2 cups powdered sugar

2 Tbsp heavy whipping cream

1 tsp vanilla

Instructions:

Start by preheating the oven to 350F. Whisk together the flour, oats, baking soda and cinnamon

and set it aside. In your stand mixer (or a bowl with a hand mixer) cream the butter. Add in the

sugars, molasses, salt, egg and vanilla. Mix until creamy. Turn your mixer on low and slowly add

in the dry ingredients. Mix until just combined. Finish mixing by hand. Scoop cookies onto a

cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, leave plenty of space for the cookies to spread. Bake

for 10 mins. They will be puffy when they come out. Let them cool completely. They will flatten

as they cool. Once cookies are cool, make the cream. 

In your mixing bowl, add in the butter and mix until creamy. 

Put the mixer on low and slowly add the powdered sugar. 

Add in the salt, vanilla and 2 Tbsp of cream. 

You can add a little more cream if you need it. It shouldn't be too thin. 

Think of how the middle of a store bought oatmeal cream pie looks. Once you have the cream made, match up the cookies in pairs of the same size. Add a little spoon of cream to one cookie and spread out. press the other cookie on top. 

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