Mint Oreo Truffles Recipe

One of the things I love about holidays is creating yummy food to help get me in the spirit. We just had Valentine’s Day this month and I posted a couple of recipes. Both of the recipes for Strawberry Brownie Skewers and Valentines Day Chocolate Bark were both very easy to make and DELICIOUS recipes, so if you haven’t yet already checked them out you can totally still make them! I guess my love for chocolate is coming out and it’s really showing with all of these holidays! In lieu of St. Patrick’s Day it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t come up with another festive treat!
I don’t know if these cookies are for you, but if you’re not a fan of chocolate or mint then you might want to stop reading this! These Mint Oreo Truffles are made with a package (yes, a full package) of Mint Oreo’s, some cream cheese, and melted chocolate chips. I mean, it’s literally 3 ingredients. How can you NOT make these sweet treats?

I had to get a little creative by visiting the bakery section of my grocery store to see how I could make these look more festive. We can’t have St. Patrick’s Day without green, and I love the way the truffles look with a touch of gold! Beware, they taste just like Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies so you might need a little bit of self restraint like I did!

Mint Oreo Balls recipe
These look delicious! Featuring when my link party opens up tonight.

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooling time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients

•     1 package Mint OREO Cookies finely crushed (15.25 oz. pkg)
•     2 cups chocolate chips mint green & semi-sweet
•     8 oz cream cheese 1 brick, softened

Instructions

1. Crush the OREO cookies.  I used a blender, but you can use a small food processor, or you can place the cookies in a sealed plastic bag and smash them with a meat mallet!  I found that the blender worked best when I did half the cookies at a time, rather than trying to crush all 36 at once. Use a fork to stir the mixture up between blends to get the finest consistency.
2. Mix the crumbs with the cream cheese until well blended.
3. Use a cookie scoop to measure out about 1.5 TBSP of the cookie mixture and roll each scoop into a ball. Place Oreo balls on a parchment or wax paper lined cookie sheet.
4. Freeze the balls for about 20-30 minutes before dipping.*
5. Melt the candy coating or melting chocolate in the microwave for about 1 minute 20 seconds. Stir gently until smooth, returning to the microwave in 15 second increments, if needed.
6. Dip each ball in the chocolate and place back on lined pan.
7. Place 1 TBSP green chocolate chips or semi sweet chocolate chips in a sandwich bag. Microwave for 40 seconds. Gently massage the bag. Snip a tiny corner of the bag and drizzle chocolate onto each Oreo ball. Sprinkle with green sprinkles, if you’d like.

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