Last week one of my good friends hosted a kid free cookie exchange. I was excited to go - not just for the cookies (fantastic by the way) but for the socializing without kids. It was such a treat to enjoy the moment without worrying about your kids getting their fingers all over her freshly painted white walls :)
If you remember my red velvet christmas baking disaster from last week, it was for this cookie exchange. I settled on doing Easy Oreo Truffles. I thought that because easy was in the title that they would be in fact easy. They really weren't.
Creaming the cream cheese was as easy as it got.
A whole bag of oreos waiting to be crushed
Finley liking the crushing of the oreos.
I thought you mixed all of the oreos and all of the cream cheese which is what I did. Turns out you only use part of the crumbs which is why mine was way darker than the photo. The recipe also says to roll the balls right away but i found that pretty much impossible to do.
I decided to chill it in the freezer so that the mixture would stiffen up making it easier to roll. The problem was I let it chill too long so I had to let them soften up a bit before rolling them into balls.
I stuck tooth picks in the balls to make them easier to dip in the chocolate.
Melting chocolate freaks me out for some reason so I waited until Greg got home to help me with it. We tried first with the double boiler system of melting chocolate but he got water in it and ruined it. So we melted chocolate chips in the microwave. The recipe calls for semi sweet which is what that was above but i had use to milk chocolate for them because that was all i had left.
Greg dipping the chocolate. We melted a little at a time and kept most of the balls frozen taking out 10 at a time because if they got too soft then it melted in the chocolate.
Finley helping out with the dipping
She struggled with getting chocolate covering all of the truffles so we moved her to the sprinkling of the sugar....
ooooops....
The recipe called for the truffles to be dusted with the extra cookie crumbs but I thought the red sugar was much more christmasy
Greg touching up the truffles with chocolate after the toothpicks were pulled out.
These turned out so good. Like ridiculously good. Like you could eat them all in one sitting which I may or may not have done with the leftovers!
Thanks for treats and conversation V!!
Happy Holidays
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