Ok, I’m taking a break from the Christmas Traditions on the Cheap series for a minute.
Yesterday I decided to try making some Oreo Cookie “Truffles” that I had tasted a few years back. They were supposed to be for folks to eat at the community Christmas concert yesterday evening (in which I was supposed to do a solo). But the whole thing got canceled due to the threat of awful weather we had up north here. So I guess I’m ahead on my cookie making.
These were SO easy to make (a tad messy, but easy), and they are absolutely decadent to eat. They would be a great gift to give to coworkers, as a hostess gift etc. Also these things will get gobbled up at holiday parties!
Here is the recipe:
Take one package of Oreos (or in my case about 1 LB of the cheapest off brand version you can pick up at Aldi’s, Save a Lot etc) and throw it in your food processor. Pulverize totally. Add an entire block of cream cheese. Pulverise again until it forms a dough. Roll dough into walnut sized balls. Stick in fridge for 1 hour to firm up. Melt white chocolate (or regular chocolate) in a double boiler or the microwave. Dip balls into the chocolate and lay on wax paper to harden.
Tada! That’s it! Admittedly, if you don’t have a big food processor and have to do it in batches, or a few at a time in a blender, then mix it up in a mixing bowl (I’d cut the cream cheese into chunks and let it soften up on the counter first for that) it would be a bit more time intensive and messy. Plus the chocolate thing takes a little bit. You can eat them without the chocolate dip (Buddy and DH ate plenty that way) but it just makes them SOOOO good.
I made this with the chocolate cookies and white filling (dipped in white chocolate), and with the white cookies with white filling (dipped in dark chocolate). I bet if you bought something like nutter butters you would wind up with something that tasted pretty awesome too!
With the store brand cookies and cream cheese the price isn’t too bad (more expensive than other cookies that you cook from scratch, but much more decadent too). I was able to buy both Hershey and Ghiradelli chocolate chips at our local dollar store (I bought about a years supply too!) so that wasn’t so bad. The white chips I bought full price at AC Moore-less than $2 a bag I think and one bag covered all the truffles, as well as 6 pretzel logs and 6 mini pretzel twists (I wasn’t going to waste that melted chocolate.)
The pretzel logs dipped in white chocolate and rolled in sprinkles look like something out of a Harry and David catalog and taste way too good. I had to put all the completed truffles and pretzels into a plastic tub and then into the fridge we keep out in the garage-maybe that way they won’t all be gone by tomorrow!
OK, for those of you who would like this in actual recipe form to print out, I found the exact same thing at Recipezaar. Just click on Oreo Balls and you’ll be redirected. There is even a picture.
Wow, those sound good. I think I’ll have to make some as part of my holiday cookie stash!
Which brings up a question…do you think I could freeze these, or would the cream cheese get all weird?
Wow, these sound wonderful! I’ll have to try them one of these days. I would have never thought of making truffles out of oreo cookies.
I don’t know if they will freeze well or not. I would think so though. I guess I could pop one in the freezer for a few days and see what happens. . .
If you do, let me know if you’re successful, LOL!
I think nutter butter cookies would taste great!!!
I will have to try it!
made these the other day……delicious! and yes they do freeze well, eat em right out of the freezer if you want! ho ho ho
I just have to tell you I made these at Christmas for my family, and they were the biggest hit! Everyone was raving about how amazing they were, and they were easy enough for the kids to make. Thanks so much!
Anon-Glad they worked out for you. These are one of those wonderful things that people seem to love and be totally impressed by that really just don’t take much effort. If you roll them in cocoa powder or powdered sugar instead of dipping in choc they are even less mess! (however nowhere near as yummy!!!)
Ya gotta just love quick, easy, cheap and impressive all rolled into one.
These sound so great & I love all the important info that you’ve included! I’m definitely giving these a try!
These are awesome! I had a co-worker bring a batch in to share and I almost melted. Too good, a must try!
I made these last year – they were fantastic! The family was divided if they prefered the regular Oreos or the Mint Double Stuffed Oreos (same technique, different package).
To finish them off, I melted a small amount of white almond bark and drizzled it over the truffles. To distinguish the mint truffles, I added green food coloring to the almond bark. They looked very fancy and professional!!
A very nice lady in the grocery store told me about these (i was buying ghirandelli for regular trufles) so, after surfing a while, I found these. I’m using the mint oreos. But, while surfing, I found on AAA-Recipes a really cute “Christmas Mouse” idea, and I’m going to try using the truffles instead of the chocolate covered cherry for the Mouses’s bodies. How cute is that?
I had them with chocolate mint cookies with melted almond bark for the coating and it tasted like thin mint girl scout cookies. Gorgeous!
I BOUGHT SOMETHING LIKE THESE IN A CANDY STORE AND WAS IN HEAVEN! CAN’T WAIT TO MAKE THESE THIS WEEKEND.
I have made them with strawberry filled vanilla cookies and drizzled with white choc but will try with dk choc next
I keep these in the freezer and they are fine. They are great frozen otherwise they melt really easily.
Totally freezable. Just had some from Christmas stock!
signed,
Christmas cookie in February.