Viciously delicious

That pretty much sums it up.

I made homemade Oreo truffles for the kids’ teachers for Valentine’s day, and they are killers. The truffles… not the teachers. Even though, I’m sure at some point they’ve probably been tempted.

Start with Oreos… (this picture was after I had taken all the cookies out of the package and then thrown the package into the trash. It was *then* that I decided I should dig it back out in order to take a picture of it. You know, to document the process. Because I thought maybe you didn’t know what Oreo packaging looked like.)





Crush them into smithereens. This is best achieved by putting the cookies in a gallon zip-loc bag, and banging them with a rolling pin, in time to John Mellencamp’s ‘Crumbling Down’. (Um… ‘crumbling’? Say what you will about my opinion meaning nothin’, but I think it’s the obvious choice.;)

Then add a package of softened cream cheese. Choose your own musical accompaniment for this step.

Smmmmoooosh all that together. Sneak a bite to make sure that… um… to make sure… that… hey! Look over there!



After that, roll them into little balls about the size of… well, truffles. Do I have to explain EVERYTHING to you?!

Chill them on wax paper in the refrigerator for about ½ hour, and then dip in melted semi-sweet chocolate. You are actually supposed to save and crush up about 9 cookies to have as sprinkles on top of the finished truffles, but when kids and/ or husbands hear that packaging being ripped open, there is no such thing as 9 extra cookies. As a result, my truffles are cookie crumb-less.

Put those little nuggets of awesome back in the fridge for about an hour to get them good and chilled. And then…put them in adorable little candy boxes to give as gifts…








…or just snarf ‘em down like a deranged Cookie Monster.




Whichever.