Cookie Truffles

Submitted by ElizabethKnicely

"These are so easy to make and so easy to eat! Cookies and Cream in truffle form. Divine!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Yields: 24 truffles
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 1 lb chocolate sandwich style cookies
• 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract, using different extracts allows for subtle flavour changes...I've used mint extract, upped to 1 teas
• 1 lb milk chocolate
• 1⁄2 lb white chocolate

directions

1. Using a food processor, grind cookies to a fine powder. With a mixer, blend cookie powder, cream cheese and vanilla extract until thoroughly mixed (there should be no white traces of cream cheese).
2. Roll into small balls and place on wax-lined cookie sheet. Refrigerate for 45 minutes.
3. Line two cookie sheets with wax paper. In double-boiler, melt milk chocolate. Dip balls and coat thoroughly. With slotted spoon, lift balls out of chocolate and let excess chocolate drip off. Place on wax-paper-lined cookie sheet.
4. In separate double-boiler, melt white chocolate. Using a fork, drizzle white chocolate over balls. Let cool.
5. Store in airtight container, in refrigerator.
6. NOTE: When I am exceedingly lazy (most often the case these days), I forego the chocolate "dip" and merely roll my truffles in various mixtures - chopped nuts, chocolate sprinles, vari-colored candy sprinkles, cocoa powder, chocolate shavings, colored sugars-still pretty-less work.