Description
Festive Grinch Christmas truffles bring mischievous holiday cheer with their green chocolate coating and playful heart-shaped design. Red and green colors dance together, creating a whimsical dessert that celebrates seasonal joy and delights guests with sweet nostalgia.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 36 regular oreos
- 12 ounces (340.2 grams) vanilla almond bark
Cream Cheese Component:
- 0.5 cup (118 milliliters) whipped cream cheese spread
Decorative Ingredients:
- Green gel food coloring
- 18 red heart sprinkles
Instructions
- Pulverize Oreos into fine, sandy granules using a food processor or manually crushing with a rolling pin, ensuring no substantial fragments remain.
- Integrate whipped cream cheese with Oreo crumbs, thoroughly blending by hand to create a cohesive, dense mixture.
- Craft uniform spherical shapes using a cookie scoop, gently rolling each portion between palms to achieve smooth, consistent truffles.
- Refrigerate formed truffles for 30-45 minutes at 40°F, allowing them to solidify and maintain structural integrity during coating process.
- Melt almond bark in microwave at 50% power, stirring every 30 seconds until completely smooth, approximately 2 minutes total.
- Infuse melted coating with green gel food coloring, stirring until achieving vibrant Grinch-like emerald hue.
- Submerge each truffle into green almond bark using a dipping tool, allowing excess to drip before positioning on parchment paper.
- Immediately embellish with red heart sprinkles while coating remains liquid, pressing gently to secure decoration.
- Return decorated truffles to refrigerator for additional 30-45 minutes at 40°F, permitting coating to completely solidify.
- Serve chilled or at room temperature, anticipating rapid consumption by gleeful guests.
Notes
- Crush Oreos thoroughly to ensure a fine, consistent texture that helps bind the truffles perfectly.
- Use room temperature cream cheese for smoother mixing and easier dough formation without lumps.
- Work quickly when coating truffles to prevent almond bark from hardening before adding heart sprinkles.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Chilling
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 90mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 15mg