Description
These White Chocolate Peppermint Truffles are the tastiest no bake Christmas treat! They're super easy to make in under an hour with only 5 ingredients. Get ready to bite into White Chocolate with a soft, creamy Oreo center.
Ingredients
Scale
- 36 regular Oreos
- 8 ounce cream cheese, softened for 1 hour before starting recipe
- 10 ounce White Chocolate Vanilla flavored Melting Wafers, Ghirardelli recommended
- 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 2 tablespoons crushed peppermint from 2 regular candy canes
Instructions
- (1) Add all the Oreos into a food processor and pulse to combine until fine crumbs. (2) Transfer half of the Oreo crumbs into a large bowl and leave the other half of the Oreos in the food processor. (3) Add 1/2 of the cream cheese and blend on high until the Oreo crumbs and cream cheese form together to look like wet dough. Transfer to a large bowl, then blend the second batch of Oreos with the remaining 4 ounces of cream cheese, and add to the bowl. Note: If you have a large food processor, you can do it all in one batch. (4) Roll the batter into one tablespoon sized balls.
- Place the Oreo balls on a plate and place in the freezer for 30 minutes.
- Line the countertop with a large sheet of parchment paper. In a double boiler on the stovetop over medium low heat, add 1 cup of water into the bottom portion and pour the melting wafers into the top bowl. Allow to melt. Stir to combine and pour in 1/2 teaspoon of peppermint extract *measure this because it's really strong and you don't want to over pour. Use a fork to dunk and flip each truffle into the white chocolate. Transfer to parchment paper. Keep the heat on low to keep the chocolate melted.
- Once you coat 2-3 truffles in white chocolate, sprinkle over the crushed peppermint. If you wait until the end, the chocolate will be hardened and won't stick. Towards the end of dunking, you'll need to roll them in the chocolate once it starts getting low.
- Allow the chocolate to harden completely, then serve and enjoy! Note: If the truffles have extra white chocolate near the base, you can flake it off easily.
Notes
- Allow the cream cheese to soften to room temperature for an hour so it blends well.
- My food processor gets too full and bogged down with the full Oreo amount and cream cheese so I process it in two batches.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Freezer Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: dessert
- Method: no bake
- Cuisine: American