Ahhhh yes. The Oreo ball truffles. These are quite popular around the holidays and for good reason. They are danged good.
When I make these, I skip the cream cheese and go for even more rich chocolately goodness by making a chocolate ganache as the wet part of the mixture. This is for those people who like to practically choke on a desert from it being so rich. The dark chocolate helps it a little though. It elevates the truffle, while still being fun and yummy for kids.
As you can tell by the not-very-fancy photos of these truffles, little hands helped make them. Having toddler minions take part on the kitchen leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to execution and photo worthy results. But I swear, the taste makes up for the less charming looks.
Ganache Oreo Truffles
Ingredients
- 1 package Oreo cookies
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1.5 cups dark chocolate chips
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups shredded white almond bark
- Crush your Oreos into fine crumble with either a food processor or in a Ziploc bag with a rolling pin.
- Place you dark chocolate chips in a sauce pan with the heavy cream minus two tablespoons of the cream. Slowly heat the chocolate and cream on low heat until melted.
- Quickly incorporate the Oreo dust and chocolate mixture together until it form a dough.
- Use a tablespoon of this chocolate dough for each ball. Mold and form the balls in your hands. You will want to work quickly before the dough cools and turns too solid.
- Use a cheese grater to shred your white almond bark bar until you have two cups or so. You could also use candy melt wafers for ease. Add the almond bark to a sauce pan with two tablespoons of heavy cream. Use low heat to melt together, stirring often.
- Use the almond bark mixture to dip your balls and lightly coat them.
- Place the Oreo balls on a piece of parchment paper.
- at this point you could choose to decorate them with crushed nuts or drizzles of chocolate. Or just leave them plain.
- Place the balls on parchment in the fridge for at least an hour to set them. You can store these in the freezer for six months. Since they have cream without extra preservatives, you’ll want to keep them in the refrigerator when not serving.
The great thing about dark chocolate ganache truffles, is you can sound super fancy in front of your friends and you get to save your cream cheese for more important things. Things like cream cheese and jam sandwiches for four year olds. Or 40 year olds. We don’t judge around here.