Three ingredients. One hour. 36 mind-blowing cookie truffles. This is an easy dessert recipe you will want to make over and over!
OH THESE COOKIE TRUFFLES. They are ridiculously easy, ridiculously delicious, and make a ridiculously good gift from your kitchen.
Here’s How You Make Cookie Truffles!
You need one package of Nutterbutter cookies. One package of cream cheese. Some chocolate candy melts.
You grind up almost the entire package of cookies in your friendly food processor until they are completely pulverized. Then dump the cookie crumbs into a bowl and mix them up with the softened cream cheese.
Honestly, the best way to do this is with your hands. It will seem like a REALLY bad idea for the first 30 seconds or so but trust me, it will all come together.
Once the cookies and cream cheese have come together in a smooth truffle dough, start rolling pieces of dough into little one inch balls of heaven. You will be powerless against taking little bites of the truffle dough as you go along, and you will see that it tastes kind of like Nutterbutter cheesecake.
Once you are done making the little balls, it’s time for the coating. I dumped the candy melts into a bowl and nuked them for about 2 minutes on 50% power in my microwave, stirring them at 30 second intervals until they were perfectly melted and creamy and smooth.
Then all you need to do is roll the little truffle balls in the melted chocolate (I found this easiest by putting them on a teaspoon and swirling them around).
Place them on a cookie sheet covered in wax paper, and when you are done, put them in the fridge so the chocolate can harden back up.
From there on in, you are in Nutterbutter truffle heaven. I thought life could not get any better. And then…
…I made Oreo truffles, with white chocolate coating. All I will say is, I left some on the counter the day my beloved housecleaning guy came this week, and he left me the following note:
“Sweet Mother of God, those Oreo truffles are out of this world FANTASTIC!!!”
That pretty much sums things up.
Cookie Truffles
Three ingredients. One hour. 36 mind-blowing cookie truffles. This is an easy dessert recipe you will want to make over and over!
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 minutes
- Total Time: 47 minutes
- Yield: 36 truffles 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Microwave
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 16 oz package Nutterbutters or Oreos
- 1 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
- 18 ounces of candy melts (about a package and a half)
Instructions
- Place all but 6 cookies in food processor and process until ground to fine crumbs.
- Put crumbs and cream cheese in bowl and mix until completely combined.
- Form dough into one inch balls
- Melt candy in microwave in 30 second increments, stirring in between each heating, until melted.
- Coat each ball in candy and place on cookie sheet covered in wax paper.
- Chill in refrigerator until candy is hardened.
- Do what you will with those 6 extra cookies.
Carina says
How did you put the chocolate on the truffles? I like the way it looks not so “smooth”
Kate says
Hi Carina! I use two spoons – I use the first one to gently drop the truffle in the melted chocolate, and the second to roll it around a little and then scoop it out. Once you get the hang of it it actually goes pretty fast.
YuGin says
What did you use to make the white chocolate coating for the Oreo truffles? I tried melting white chocolate with butter and it turned out a mess :(
Kate says
Oh no! Melting chocolate is SO tricky. I used Nestle white chocolate chips, but if you want them to be COMPLETELY safe in terms of melting, you can use candy melts. This is chocolate that has been specially made for melting. I use the Wilton brand…they aren’t in supermarkets, but I can always find them in craft stores like Michaels. They work every time!
FramedCooks says
Hmmm…I think you could probably pulverize the cookies in a blender, or even with a mallet or a rolling pin….just make sure you really make them into dust-like crumbs. As long as you can do that you are good to go!