This is my favorite time of year! I love breaking out my holiday cookie books to figure out what sweet treats I will be baking for our friends and family. I am always looking for something new to add to our cookie trays and I thought that this year I would try out the OREO cookie ball recipe. I have never made them but my sister has for several parties and I always obsess about them.
I decided to try out a snickerdoodle OREO cookie ball pop variation and because I love OREO’s so much I couldn’t just stop at snickerdoodle and went for double chocolate as well.
While I was at Walmart I picked up the following ingredients: 2 packages of OREO’s (double chocolate and vanilla), 2 8-oz. packages of cream cheese, vanilla chocolate wafers and holiday sprinkles.
I rarely crush cookies in a plastic bag to save time, but if you don’t have a food processor you can easily crush your cookies that way. I just have a little OCD and love when the crumbs are uniformed in size. I always like to thumb through the crushed cookies to pick out any large chunks that didn’t crumble.
I like to refrigerate my dough before shaping into balls. It also makes it easier once you dip your sticks into the chocolate to set faster. I refrigerated the balls for roughly twenty minutes before dipping. I decided to mix it up a bit with colored chocolate.
Your Holiday OREO Cookie Ball Pops will make the perfect addition to any cookie tray or for a cookie exchange party! Have you made OREO cookie balls before? I’d love to hear how you make them!
- 1 pkg (8 oz.) brick cream cheese, softened
- 36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed (about 3 cups)
- 4 pkg. (4 oz. each) semi-sweet baking chocolate, melted
- holiday sprinkles (optional)
- ½ tsp. cinnamon(optional)
- ½ cup brown sugar (optional)
- holiday pop sticks (optional)
- MIX cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended.
- SHAPE into 48 (1-inch) balls. Freeze 10 min. Dip balls in melted chocolate; place in single layer in shallow waxed paper-lined pan.
- CUSTOMIZE it with your own ingredient additions or decorative skills.
- REFRIGERATE 1 hour or until firm.
If you love OREO’s just as much as we do join the #OREOCookieBall Pinterest party taking place on Pinterest on Saturday, December 6 at 12pm ET.
Summer Davis says
I made them for the first time ever about 7 years ago and I couldn’t believe how delicious they were. I started having babies after that and didn’t take time to make them for quite a few years, but I made them again a few days ago and they were so delish! Mine aren’t nearly as pretty as yours are. My balls were great but as soon as I dipped them in chocolate, they were SO lumpy looking. Yours are gorgeous!