Stop what you are doing! Go buy cream cheese, a box of Oreo cookies, and melting chocolates. You need to make these. Like right now.
These are one of the simplest recipes, yet they taste like you slaved away and became a master chocolatier.
Empty a whole box of Oreo cookies into a food processor. Process the shit out of them. You will end up with an almost powdery substance. DO NOT USE DOUBLE STUFFED OREOS. I thought this would be a good idea, more icing how could you go wrong? I was wrong. They were much too soft and would not keep their shape. Just don't do it.
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| Oreo crumble! |
Cube an 8 ounce block of cream cheese and mix it into the Oreo crumble (still in your food processor). You want to make sure this gets blended up really well. No big cream cheese chunks. None.
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| Eat a little of this. It's Mandatory. |
The next step is really messy. Not a really fun messy. Just messy. Cover a cookie sheet with wax paper, or tin foil if that is all you have and set aside. Take a spoon and scoop enough of the mixture for about a bite and a half and roll it into a ball. These are fairly rich so you don't want them to be too big. Roll them all out and put them on your cookie sheet. When the mixture is all rolled out, pop it in to the fridge to cool for an hour or so.
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| These were too big. I split each one in half after this. |
Once they are sufficiently chilled (in the sense that they are firm and holding their shape when you pick them up), you will need to melt your chocolate. You can melt it in a couple different ways. If you have a double boiler than you are doing better than me and should probably take over my blog. I will assume you know how to use your double boiler to melt chocolate. If you don't have a double boiler you can pop some melting chocolate or just milk chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and warm up for 30 seconds at a time until smooth. Another trick, if you don't have a double boiler, or if you have a weird microwave, is to bring a pot of water to a boil and put a heat safe bowl on top of the pot so just the bottom of the bowl is in the water, and stir you chocolate up. This is the way I do it. I hope to get a double boiler soon though! **hint hint**
You are going to need some patience, maybe wine as well, for the next step. Your chocolate needs to stay nice and smooth for dipping, so if it starts to get too cool just warm it up again. You may find a different way that works best for you, but I drop a ball in to the melted chocolate, scoop it up with a fork, shake off the excess, and then slide it off the fork on to the covered cookie sheet using a skewer. You want the side that was on the fork to end up on the cookie sheet.
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| Also a messy, messy step |
Instead of just cooling my truffles, I froze mine. Not an awesome idea when you are dipping them in warm chocolate. They expanded a little and some of the chocolate shell cracked. They also did this weird thing where the filling started to squeeze out of the bottom and it looked like they were moving on their own. Just cool. Don't freeze. Lesson learned.
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| Perfect Enough right? |
To make them Christmas-y and adorable, I also bought some red and green melting chocolate from Bulk Barn. I got real crafty with this and just popped a few in a zip lock bag and then put that bag in a pot of hot water. They melted up perfect and made no mess! How did it take me this long to figure it out? Not sure. Now I know. You can get as creative as you want here, but I will tell you... less ended up looking like more. Don't go overboard if you are also going for looks. It also turns out that taking a picture of yourself carefully decorating truffles while trying to carefully decorate truffles is pretty hard. My apologies for the terrible picture.
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| Nice nail polish, Jen. Jeez. |
But wait! Those ones are white?! Yes. Yes they are. I also made a batch of Golden Oreo and white chocolate truffles! Same recipe applies, just swap out the Oreos. These would also be really great dipped in milk chocolate. I find white chocolate pretty damn sweet.
Cool and enjoy! Make sure to keep these in the fridge before serving. Cream cheese and all.
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Ingredients
- One box regular stuffed Oreo cookies
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 2 cups of melting chocolate or chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup colored melting chocolate (optional)
Directions
In a food processor, completely process the entire box of Oreo cookies. Add 8 ounces of cream cheese, cubed. Mix until completely combined.
Cover cookie sheet in wax paper or aluminum foil. Roll the mixture in about bite and a half size balls and place on cookie sheet. Cool completely.
Melt chocolate until completely smooth. Dip Oreo and cream cheese balls into melted chocolate and set on cookie sheet to cool.
Optional: Once cool, melt colored chocolate and pipe onto truffles.
Store in airtight container in fridge or freezer until ready to serve.
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