Welcome to October! With the holidays coming up, I thought I’d share some Oreo Truffles with you because they make great treats for all the parties you’ll inevitably be invited to during the holiday season.
If you’ve never had Oreo Truffles before, you really need to try them. They are simple to make and only include three ingredients: Oreos (or similar cookies), cream cheese, and chocolate. I’m amazed I’ve never made a blog post about them before now, to tell you the truth.
There’s something about the mixture of the cookies and the cream cheese that really makes these special. They are decadent and rich. The added chocolate coating only makes them better.
I saw these Halloween themed Joe Joe’s cookies at Trader Joe’s and thought the box was cool looking so I decided to try them. They were not very good. The chocolate cookies were fine but the filling was bland. It tasted like nothing, and definitely not vanilla. Should I just throw the box of cookies away? Continue eating the cookies and hating life? No! Just make them into Oreo Truffles! Even the blandness of the cookies could be fixed with a little cream cheese and chocolate. Once the cookies are combined with the other ingredients, they didn’t taste that much different than the truffles made with real Oreos. So if you ever end up with a crappy box of Oreo knock-offs, you know what to do!
Ingredients
- Package of Oreos or other chocolate sandwich cookies
- 8 oz. block of cream cheese (softened)
- 8-14 oz. of semi-sweet baking chocolate or chocolate candy melts
- Chopped nuts
- Sprinkles
- Sugar confetti
- Crushed Oreos
Instructions
- Put the cookies whole in a large food processor* and crush until the cookies are a fine crumb. If you want to use crushed cookies for topping set some aside at this point.
- Put the softened cream cheese into a large bowl and pour the cookie crumbs on top.
- With your hands, combine the cookies and cream cheese until completely incorporated. It's a messy job, but at least you get to lick your fingers clean when you're done!
- Chill the mixture for 15-20 mins. to thicken it up.
- Then roll it into 1 inch balls and place on a wax paper covered jelly roll pan. Chill again for 30 mins.
- Melt the semi-sweet baking chocolate in the microwave on 30 sec. intervals, decreasing the time to 15 sec. intervals when the chocolate gets close to melted. You don't want to over heat your chocolate or it'll be ruined.
- When the balls are chilled, place each ball, one at a time, in the melted chocolate making sure it's covered completely.
- With two forks, pick up the truffle out of the chocolate and place back on the wax paper. While the chocolate is still melted sprinkle the top with your toppings of choice.
Notes
*If you don't have a food processor, split the cookies apart, scrape the filling into a large bowl with the cream cheese and place the cookies in a large ziplock bag. I remove the filling ahead of crushing, because I find the cookies difficult to crush finely when the filling is included.
Crush the cookies finely in the ziplock bag with a mallet or something similar and then place them into the large bowl with the filling.
These little truffles are great for the holidays and an easy, quick treat when you need to make something last minute.
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