No Bake Cookie Truffles

I found a ton of recipes on Pinterest one day that fit perfectly into my busy holiday and football season toward the end of 2015. So I gathered up the easiest ingredients and process from each and added my own spice to it. I needed an easy to dress treat that I could customize to each themed holiday party I was attending, in addition to the various football gatherings. It was such a hit that I kind of just kept making them whenever someone would request! I have tried out a few different flavors of cookies, and they were all really good. Getting the melting chocolate process down pat was a little tough at first but after I perfected that, making batches was much easier.

This was a quick batch I made up one morning before a Football Sunday.

Oreo chocolate turkey truffle && Samoa white candy glaze truffle I whipped up for Thanksgiving 🍂🍁

The Ingredients you'll need for this recipe are:

1 package bricked cream cheese

1 package of Oreo cookies

1 package of melting chocolate

You'll also need:

-Blender

-Wooden mixer to move around batter in blender

*bricked cream cheese just means the type of cream cheese that comes in the shape of a block/brick

*you can really get any kind of cookies you want, I've even used Samoas

*doesnt have to be chocolate flavor, you can get whatever color you want to match your theme

Directions:

Take the cream cheese out of the fridge and it's cardboard outer package, let it sit for 30 minutes in the tin foil on a paper towel on the counter so it starts to thaw out, it'll make it easier to mix.

Then take the package of cookies out and have that and the thawing cream cheese next to each other. You'll want to put in a spoonful of cream cheese and then a few cookies that you have to crumble up with your hands into smaller pieces into the blender, every three pairs of the two ingredients, blend them until they're mixed. (example: 1 spoonful of CC && 3 crumbled cookies, 1 spoonful of CC && 3 crumbled cookies, 1 spoonful of CC && crumbled cookies, blend until mixed, 1 spoonfull of CC && 3 crumbled cookies, 1 spoonful of CC && 3 crumbled cookies, 1 spoonful of CC && crumbled cookies, blend until mixed, use wooden spoon to mix batter and new CC and cookie crumbles together, blend until mixed, repeat)

*1 spoonful is a scoop with a table spoon, but its with my bigger spoon in my silverware set, so i just take a glob of cream cheese out with that, I'm not using a measuring cup or anything

I do this until the blender is one fourth full, or until the batter && the cream cheese/crumbled cookies are having a hard time mixing together. Once you have batter, you'll want to put the batter in a bowl and work with it from there. You can take a spoonful of batter, roll it up into a ball of whatever size you want (I have found that bite size is the most popular) and then place it on wax paper on a cookie sheet. Once all the batter is rolled into the truffle shapes you want to put them in the fridge on the tray for 20 minutes.

When there are four minutes left before the truffle shapes are done chilling, you'll want to start your melting chocolate. I recommend following the directions on the package of whatever kind you buy because diferent colors and textures can come with different instructions. When the melting chocolate is melted you can use tooth picks to pick up one truffle shape and dip it into the melted chocolate and then place it on the wax paper on the cookie sheet. The tooth pick might be hard to get out of the truffle, so I usually use a second tooth pick to pull the first one off. I then take a spoon and scoop some melted chocolate on top of the hole on the truffle. If you get good enough at it, doing this can make them look pretty fancy.

You'll want to place the waxed cookie sheet back into the refrigerator after all of the truffles have been dipped in chocolate. If you are planning to add anything fancy to the truffles, like I did above where they look like turkeys then you'll need to add the candy/sprinkles/etc. on AS SOON AS you take the truffle out of the melting chocolate. If you wait too long then the melting chocolate will harden and your decorations wont stick. Making the truffles look like turkeys took a lot longer then no decorations because you have to dip one truffle, place it on the wax paper and then decorate it, then dip the next truffle, put on wax paper and then decorate it. The end result was well worth it though, they were a hit! I've had a ton of people ask me for this recipe, I hope this post helps out anyone who wants to make them! Let me know if you have any questions! [:

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