Christmas Peppermint Oreo Truffles
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These Christmas Peppermint Oreo Truffles are so delicious and easy to make with only 5 ingredients! Perfect sweet treats for all your holiday goodies when entertaining and gift-giving.
This peppermint candy truffles recipe made with Oreo cookies, cream cheese and peppermint extract dipped in the chocolate of your choice with crushed candy cane crunch or some fun holiday sprinkles on top! Speaking of festive, you’ll love these Candy Cane Frosted Cookies, these Peppermint Frosted Chocolate Cookies and this Peppermint Candy Brownie Trifle!
These decadent Christmas candy peppermint truffles are quick, easy and the perfect no-bake sweet treat for the holidays, much like these 60 Easy No Bake Christmas Treats!
These truffles are a family favorite candy recipe, as well as these Butterfinger Truffles, No Bake Cookie Dough Cups, Pumpkin Oreo Truffles, these Chocolate Coconut Truffles and these scrumptious Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles!
Ingredients You Need
- Oreo cookies
- cream cheese, softened
- peppermint extract
- 16 ounces white, milk or dark chocolate melting wafers – I love using Ghirardelli
- Crushed candy canes
or holiday sprinkles for tops
How to Make Oreo Peppermint Truffles
- Pulse Oreo cookies in a food processor until cookies are crumbs.
- Add cream cheese and peppermint extract and pulse until the mixture is well combined and smooth.
- Using a cookie scoop or a spoon, scoop some dough into your hands and roll one-inch balls and place balls on cookie sheet.
- Place the truffle balls in the freezer until well chilled, at least 15 minutes to an hour.
- Melt the chocolate melts in microwave in 30-second intervals until melted and smooth. Stir in between each interval.
- Remove Oreo cookie truffles from freezer and dip in melted chocolate.
- One at a time, dip the balls into the chocolate and gently remove using a fork. Shake off the excess chocolate and place back onto the tray.
- Top with crushed candy canes or sprinkles.
- Transfer truffles to refrigerator for 1 hour to set.
Tips & Variations for Oreo Truffle Recipe
- Use regular, not Double Stuf Oreos. Double stuff has too much cream filling for these.
- Use full fat cream cheese. It tastes better than the low-fat, it is thinner and not as rich.
- Be sure to chill the Oreo truffles before you try to dip them, otherwise bits of Oreos will break off into the chocolate.
- Use a fork or dipping tool to dip in chocolate, then use a spoon to pour more chocolate over them, then lift and let excess run off.
- Variation: You can use different flavor of Oreos, like the red velvet Oreos or the golden Oreos
are excellent!
- Add 1/3 cup of crushed candy canes to your Oreo truffle mixture to add extra crunch to your truffles! ‘Tis the season!
- Leave out the peppermint extract and just add crushed candy canes or some fun Christmas sprinkles to the tops of the truffles for some peppermint flavor that’s not overwhelming for the not-so-much peppermint lovers.
- Use peppermint extract
, not mint extract for the best peppermint flavor!
Storage & Freezer Options
For best results, store in an air tight container in the refrigerator up to 1 week or in the freezer up to 3 months. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight. They can sit at room temperature up to 2 hours when serving.
If you’ll be using this Oreo truffle recipe for entertaining or gift giving, you may want to double your batch of these scrumptious Christmas Peppermint Oreo Truffles! They go really fast!!
Add these to your plate of cookies for your friends and neighbors for extra deliciousness and loveliness along with these Chocolate Cake Cheesecake Truffles!
More Delish Peppermint Sweets!
- Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars
- Easy Brownie Truffles
- Peppermint Marshmallow Fudge
- Holiday White Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake Mousse Pie
- Peppermint Tres Leches Cake
- White Chocolate Truffles
Christmas Peppermint Oreo Truffles
Ingredients
- 36 Oreo cookies
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- ½ teaspoon peppermint extract can add up to 1 teaspoon if you want more peppermint flavor
- 16 ounces white milk or dark chocolate melting wafers, I use Ghiradelli (can also use chocolate chips)
- 3 Crushed candy canes or add sprinkles for tops
Instructions
- Pulse Oreo cookies in a food processor until cookies are crumbs.
- Add cream cheese and peppermint extract and pulse until the mixture is well combined and smooth.
- Using a cookie scoop or a spoon, scoop some dough into your hands and roll one-inch balls and place balls on cookie sheet.
- Place the truffle balls in the freezer until well chilled, at least 15 minutes to an hour.
- Melt the chocolate melts in microwave in 30-second intervals until melted and smooth. Stir in between each interval.
- Remove Oreo cookie truffles from freezer and one at a time, dip the balls into the chocolate and gently remove using a fork. Shake off the excess chocolate and place back onto the tray.
- Top with crushed candy canes or sprinkles.
- Transfer truffles to refrigerator for 1 hour to set.
