Magic Tricks

This isn't a perfect, 5-star trick because it's really a one-note effect that shouldn't be performed more than once or twice in front of the same audience (reasons follow). But it is a terrific, highly-recommended, 4-star-plus trick, primarily because it is easy to learn, it is great fun to perform, and it makes people smile. Everyone loves Oreos, and no one expects you to make the cream filling re-appear and expand after it has been removed from the cookie. BUT ... if you perform the trick in close quarters, you should anticipate that audience members will (1) ask/demand to EXAMINE (and perhaps eat) the cookie, or (2) REACH for the cookie while it's in your hands after you have performed the trick. I have performed this trick in front of kids (i.e., my pesky nieces and nephews) and friends (i.e., my adult, slightly inebriated dinner guests), and it produced a joyously baffled response ... but in both circumstances someone insisted upon seeing, holding, or eating "the cookie" after I performed the trick. Which led me to develop this work-around: Buy a bag of Oreo cookies and carefully create actual, "overstuffed" Oreo cookies that can be discreetly swapped for the gimmick after the trick has been performed. (One bag of Double Stuf Oreos yields about 20 "overstuffed" cookies. After you make the actual, "overstuffed" cookies, you can keep them in the freezer, to keep them fresh and available for future performances.) To avoid suspicion that a gimmick is involved, I now strongly believe that the trick's logical conclusion requires that "the cookie" be provided to an audience member after the trick has been performed. It really is the natural ending to an unusual and fun trick.