Description
Sweet peppermint oreo balls create a festive holiday treat that melts in your mouth. Chocolate-covered spheres blend creamy crushed cookies with cool mint for a delightful seasonal dessert you’ll crave again and again.
Ingredients
Scale
- 8 oz (226 g) cream cheese, softened
- 36 Oreo cookies
- 16 oz (454 g) white or dark chocolate melting wafers
- 1 tsp peppermint extract
- ½ cup crushed candy canes or peppermint candies
Instructions
- Pulverize: Transform oreo cookies into ultra-fine, uniform crumbs using a food processor, ensuring no substantial fragments remain.
- Blend Mixture: Fold softened cream cheese and peppermint extract into cookie crumbs, kneading thoroughly until a cohesive, malleable consistency develops.
- Shape Confections: Craft uniform, compact spheres by gently rolling the mixture, creating smooth bite-sized orbs with consistent dimensions.
- Chill Preparation: Refrigerate the shaped balls for 30 minutes, allowing them to firm and simplify the subsequent chocolate coating process.
- Chocolate Immersion: Carefully melt chocolate wafers in a microwave-safe vessel, stirring periodically to achieve a silky, luminous texture without burning.
- Coating Technique: Employ a dipping tool to submerge each chilled sphere completely in melted chocolate, ensuring comprehensive and elegant coverage.
- Decorative Finish: While chocolate remains liquid, swiftly embellish the tops with crushed candy canes, adding a festive and textural dimension.
- Setting and Storage: Allow chocolatey treats to solidify at ambient temperature or accelerate the process via refrigeration, then transfer to an airtight container for preservation.
Notes
- Crumb Consistency Matters: Ensure Oreo cookies are ground into ultra-fine, uniform crumbs to prevent lumpy texture and achieve smooth, professional-looking balls.
- Temperature Control: Keep cream cheese at room temperature for easier mixing and smoother incorporation with cookie crumbs, preventing clumpy or uneven mixture.
- Chill for Success: Refrigerate balls before chocolate coating to firm up the mixture, making dipping process cleaner and preventing crumbling during coating.
- Chocolate Coating Technique: Maintain melted chocolate at consistent, warm (not hot) temperature to achieve smooth, thin, glossy coating without chocolate cracking or becoming dull.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 23
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 100 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 6 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 21 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 15 mg