Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Tasty Tuesday!

And now, the day you've all be waiting for...........my newest weekly addition to the blog: Tasty Tuesday! I will make a recipe and share it with yall! Either a favorite or a new recipe (to submit a recipe for me to make and then document for Tasty Tuesdays, send to thefloatingviolin@gmail.com)

Today's recipe is not a new recipe, but a favorite, and very yummy and easy. It's fancy, and it looks like you worked way harder than you did to make it happen. (like all the best recipes) 

Oreo Truffles (from JH)
Ingredients:
Package of Oreos (any flavor)
8oz package of cream cheese
Chocolate chips
dump the oreos into a bowl, and get the cream cheese out to soften a little bit and warm up. 


if you're smart, you'll have a friend over to crush up the oreos into tiny smithereens!
any way you like, sometimes i put it in a bag and beat it with a spoon.
 but the best way i've found is to use a potato masher: 
smithereens.



Mix the cream cheese into the oreo crumbs. 
There is no good way to do this, other than with your hands. 
(Make sure to wash your hands first!)
(you're going to get your hands messy in the next step anyway - you might as well just do it)


roll into 1 inch balls
 Lay out onto foil covered cookie sheets,
 and chill for a couple hours or overnight, 
if you have that much time. 
While you're waiting, lick the bowl and anything else with chocolate on it.


Makeshift double boiler - a bowl in a pot with water in the bottom. 
This is the best way to get the chocolate dip-ready.
 I've tried a few different ways,
 using a microwave or stove, 
but this is best. 

Once the chocolate is melty, throw one of the chilly balls into the chocolate. 
make sure it's covered, and pull it out. 
It works best using two forks, flipping it back and forth 
between the forks to get the excess chocolate off, 
and then plopping it back onto the foil. 
I also used some white chocolate!


Garnish as you please, 
with a fork flip 
or a chocolate chip on top for decoration, 
or powdered sugar sprinkled on top,
or sprinkles, even,  
or just leave plain. 
Stick it back in the fridge for a little while to let the outer shell harden.  
Serve chilled with love. Feeds 1 to 40 people. 

5 comments:

  1. you should, its really east. the only hard part is dipping them, really, and that only takes some practice.

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  2. of course these are my fav!!! I drizzled pink chocolate on them for my sister-in-laws baby shower :-) oh and for the halloween party (that you missed where Dustin almost set our house on fire with the blazing pumpkins!) we created monster eyeballs with them.

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