One of Many Christmas Traditions---Cookie Baking With Grammy

It's that time of year once again, Christmastime!  One of my favorite family traditions is that of baking Christmas cookies with my Grammy.  We usually tackle many cookies and recently added this family favorite.  From our family to yours, I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as our family and friends do!

OREO BALLS

Ingredients:

16 ounces Oreo cookies, crushed (typically 1 full package & five extra cookies from another package)

8 ounces cream cheese, softened

White or Milk Chocolate Bark for dipping

1.      Crush Oreo cookies in the food processor.

2.      Mix crushed Oreos and softened cream cheese together.  I use a wooden spoon and cream together.

3.      Roll into walnut size balls and place on parchment paper lined cookie sheet.

4.      Freeze in deep freezer for an hour and a half.

5.      Melt chocolate bark.

6.      Stick toothpick in Oreo ball and dip into melted chocolate bark.

7.      Place on wax paper and remove toothpick.

8.      Allow to harden.

9.      Drizzle with alternating color chocolate if you so desire.  To achieve the look as shown, I put melted chocolate into a small Ziploc and cut a very tiny corner off and then quickly squeeze back and forth above the Oreo balls.  Once again, let harden completely and then store Oreo balls in refrigerator.

**To make mint Oreo balls, add ¾ tsp mint flavoring and use Mint flavored Oreo cookies.  They taste just like Andes mints!  Yum!**