Description
Creamy Oreo Balls offer a delightful no-bake dessert that blends chocolate cookie crumbs with rich cream cheese. Chocolate-dipped and sprinkled with crushed cookie bits, these irresistible treats will satisfy your sweet tooth and impress guests at any gathering.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1 package oreo cookies (about 36 cookies)
- 8 ounces (226 grams) cream cheese, softened
Coating Ingredients:
- 1 bag chocolate chips (milk or dark)
Decorative Ingredients:
- Sprinkles (optional)
Instructions
- Transform Oreo cookies into fine, uniform crumbs using a food processor or manually crushing them within a sealed plastic bag until texture resembles coarse sand.
- Transfer the pulverized cookie fragments into a spacious mixing vessel, incorporating softened cream cheese. Thoroughly amalgamate the ingredients until achieving a consistent, homogeneous composition.
- Methodically shape the creamy mixture into compact, spherical portions approximately one inch in diameter. Arrange these nascent confections onto a parchment-lined tray, ensuring adequate spacing between each globe.
- Consign the proto-truffles to the refrigeration unit, allowing them to stabilize and solidify for roughly half an hour, enhancing structural integrity.
- Simultaneously, initiate chocolate preparation by gently liquefying chocolate chips through microwave technique or traditional double-boiler method. Continuously stir until achieving a glossy, seamless consistency.
- Extract chilled Oreo spheres and systematically immerse each one into the molten chocolate. Allow excess coating to cascade away, then carefully position each glazed morsel back onto the parchment surface. Consider adorning with complementary decorative elements like festive sprinkles prior to chocolate solidification.
- Return the embellished confections to refrigeration, permitting the chocolate coating to completely set. Once stabilized, these delectable morsels are primed for consumption and sharing.
Notes
- Crush Oreos thoroughly to ensure a smooth, consistent texture without large cookie chunks, which can make rolling and dipping challenging.
- When mixing cream cheese, ensure it’s completely softened at room temperature to blend seamlessly with cookie crumbs and prevent lumpy consistency.
- Use cold hands or slightly dampened palms when forming balls to prevent sticking and create uniform, compact shapes that hold together during chocolate coating.
- Experiment with different chocolate coatings like white chocolate, milk chocolate, or even colored candy melts for varied flavor profiles and festive appearances.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Chilling
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 36
- Calories: 130
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 70 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 16 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 15 mg