Donald Trump and Golden Double Stuf Oreo, Photo: Joseph Rosen

Donald Trump, the real-estate mogul renowned for his marriages and his involvement with a variety of pageants beginning with Miss, likes his Oreos ... especially when they dance.

We found the Donald last week at Trump Tower with a dancing Golden Double Stuf Oreo mascot. "The Apprentice" host was there to announce his intent to "purchase" the Oreo Double Stuf Racing League (DSRL), a faux league where family and friends race to see who can finish an Oreo cookie and single glass of milk the fastest.

"I only do products that I really like, and this product I really like," Trump said. "I started by loving Oreos and now I ended by doing a commercial for the people who made Oreos."

I was one of those twist and lickers. I never cared about the crunchy Oreo cookies that just got in the way of my beloved filling, and always preferred to lick and dump. In my childish inclinations, I even dreamed of a day when I'd have a partner who would love the cookies and disregard the delectable inside -- the perfect pair, like whites lovers matched with yolk lovers. But my Oreo creativity never stretched beyond marriage musings.

Man, I'm probably lucky that I never thought of stacking Double Stuf Oreos, like that picture to the right -- the Duoseptuagenuple Stuf Oreo. I don't know what I love more, that JasonGraphix.com made a huge and towering Oreo, or the fact that he used a cheese slicer to be exact with his creamy extraction. Such delicious dedication!

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Between my weakness for novel new cookies and my love for artificial banana flavor, I had no choice but to buy a box of these limited edition Banana Split Creme Oreos when I spied them on a grocery store shelf tonight. Opening the package gave me a heady whiff of faux banana, recalling Bonnie Bell Lip Smackers and Laffy Taffy. There's something so 1980s about artificial banana; it's the sunny, unabashedly fake Valley Girl of the fruit flavoring world, cruising the shopping mall in a yellow spandex tube dress.

The cookies themselves are normal chocolate Oreos, with a canary-yellow banana cream that's softer and slicker than regular Oreo filling. The banana flavor is more subtle than the smell might indicate. I think they'd be pretty good crushed over vanilla ice cream. The Nabisco website says nothing about the Banana Split Creme Oreo, so I have no idea how widely available they are or how long they're here.

In honor of a friend (who shall here remain nameless) whose guilty secret is that she likes the Oreo shakes at Jack in the Box, I thought that I would mention that the popular fast food chain will be offering a Chocolate Oreo Cookie Shake for a limited time. It is a twist on the regular Oreo shake, which is made with real vanilla ice cream and Oreo cookies and is widely reputed to be one of the best milkshakes in the fast food sector. The restaurant will still use the same vanilla ice cream, but will be adding bittersweet chocolate syrup to the mix for an extra-chocolaty kick.

So, if you like the shakes from Jack in the Box (you know who you are!), you might want to consider giving one of these a try before the limited time offer expires. Or just start carrying chocolate syrup in your car so you can make your own from the regular ones.

Anna, from Cookie Madness, made a great find the other day at her local supermarket in Austin: Dulce de Leche Oreos. These limited edition cookies aim to pair a slightly milky caramel-flavored cream filling with the classic chocolate wafer cookies of Oreos, though Anna said that the filling tasted mostly buttery with only notes of caramel.

For some reason, the limited edition cookies are not listed on the main Oreo website, though they do get a brief mention on the wiki entry for Oreos and I finally found them listed on the Comida Kraft site, Kraft's spanish-language counterpart, which may be an indication that the cookies are not going to be mass marketed in quite the same way that the peanut butter and mint chocolate Oreos were when those flavors were first released. And buttery or not, the chocolate/caramel combination still sound like a promising one for Oreos, so keep an eye out for them.

I recently came across a Popular Science article about candy rockets, model rockets that use sugary foods like Pixy Stix and Oreo filling as their fuel. By adding an oxidizer like potassium nitrate or potassium perchlorate to the sweet stuff, you can get it to burn with the speed and intensity needed for things like launching a small rocket. The Popular Science article features a link to a page of "Candy Propellant Experiments," with descriptions, photos and video of rockets fueled by Snickers, Oreo creme and Pixy Stix. There's also a link to another group that's in the process of trying to launch a sugar-powered rocket into space.

Nabisco makes more than a dozen varieties of Oreo cookies, not including the ones that have their fillings dyed for each holiday, in addition to 4 Oreo ice creams and 8 other Oreo-related products. They do not sell what is rapidly becoming one of the most popular types of Oreo, albeit the unhealthiest: deep fried Oreo's.

A popular fair and carnival food, just like the deep fried Snickers bars, it involves dipping an Oreo into a thick batter and popping it into a sizzling hot pot of oil. When pulled out, hot and crispy, they are topped with powdered sugar and served. According to many,  they are delicious and more easily justifiable than a Snicker's due to their relatively small size. One blogger described them : "The Oreo loses it's hard crunchy texture and becomes a warm chocolately cake delight. The creamy center melts and creates an inner glaze." Should you want to risk the health hazards of deep-fried foods for the delights of one of these treats, you can find instructions both here and here.

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This summer, Oreos are changing their classic, round shape for six weeks. The new Oreos, called Dunkers, will be oblong, stretched out to enable easier dunking. Apparently, the most popular way to eat Oreos is to dunk them in milk, but most of their advertising has focused on the "twist" and "lick" aspects of their "Twist, Lick and Dunk" theme. Additionally, instead of having the "Oreo" logo printed on the cookies, they will feature new slogans, like "Dunk Me," "Milk's Favorite Cookie" and lines that indicate suggested levels of dunking. The campaign's success, when it is launched in June, will determine whether the classic cookies will make their shape-shifting permanent.

AdJab doesn't like the idea of the shape change because they're not big fans of the dunking concept. I could go either way as far as dunking is concerned, but I suspect that the "twist" part of the Oreo-eating process will be made much more difficult by having an oblong cookie. As the twist is my favorite part of eating Oreos, I think I'll be in favor of sticking to the traditional shape.

Nosheteria was craving some Oreo cookies and happened to stumble upon Wayne Harley Brachman's cookbook Retro Desserts, which contains a recipe for homemade Oreo cookies. I happen to love my copy of his cookbook and have made homemade graham crackers and other goodies on many occasions. I have not tried these chocolate sandwich cookies, but I definitely will now. Nosheteria says that the cookies taste surprisingly similar to - if not better than - the original Oreos. They are crisp, with just the right amount of delicious vanilla cream filling. I recommend picking up a copy of the book, but the recipe is posted online, too.