Description
Sweet sugar cookie truffles blend creamy cream cheese with crumbled cookies and white chocolate coating. These indulgent bites offer a delightful dessert that melts in your mouth and satisfies classic cookie cravings.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 oz (113 g) cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups sugar cookies, finely crumbled (homemade or store-bought)
- 1 cup white chocolate chips or white candy melts
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- Optional: holiday sprinkles
- Optional: crushed candy canes
- Optional: colored sugar
Instructions
- Pulverize: Transform sugar cookies into ultra-fine crumbs, guaranteeing no substantial fragments remain. Integrate softened cream cheese and vanilla extract, blending until a cohesive, pliable consistency develops.
- Shape: Craft uniform, compact spheres approximately one inch in diameter from the cookie mixture. Arrange truffles on a parchment-lined surface, maintaining precise spacing.
- Chill: Refrigerate formed truffles for 30 minutes, enabling them to solidify and retain structural integrity for subsequent coating.
- Melt: Heat white chocolate or candy melts in a microwave-safe vessel, stirring periodically to prevent burning and achieve a silky, luminous liquid.
- Coat: Submerge each chilled truffle into the molten chocolate using a dipping utensil, ensuring comprehensive, seamless coverage. Delicately eliminate excess chocolate by gentle tapping.
- Embellish: While chocolate remains liquid, adorn with decorative elements like sparkling sugar crystals, crushed peppermint, or vibrant confetti to enhance visual allure.
- Set: Allow truffles to stabilize at room temperature until chocolate hardens completely, or accelerate the process by placing in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Notes
- Crumb Consistency Matters: Crush cookies extremely fine to avoid lumpy texture; use a food processor or rolling pin for uniform, smooth crumbs.
- Chill for Structure: Refrigerate truffles before and after coating to maintain shape and prevent chocolate from sliding off during dipping.
- Chocolate Melting Technique: Melt chocolate in short 15-second intervals, stirring between each session to prevent burning and ensure silky-smooth coating.
- Dietary Adaptation: Swap regular sugar cookies with gluten-free or vegan alternatives for individuals with specific dietary restrictions; use dairy-free cream cheese and chocolate for lactose-intolerant guests.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Mixing
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 23
- Calories: 130
- Sugar: 9 g
- Sodium: 50 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 15 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 10 mg