Sweet golden Oreo and cream cheese are mixed together for the creamiest Christmas Oreo balls that taste just like a sugar cookie and cheesecake combined! Wrap these creamy truffles in a coating of green-colored white chocolate with a red sprinkle for a fun Grinch-inspired dessert perfect for the holiday season.
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Why We Love Christmas Oreo Balls
- Only A Few Ingredients– You only need four simple ingredients to make this quick and easy recipe that makes really festive treats.
- Tastes Like Cheesecake- The insides of these cookies tastes like a combination of cheesecake and a sugar cookie, delicious!
- Adorable Treat For The Holidays! – The perfect treat for cookie exchanges, holiday parties and gatherings, these delicious Grinch-inspired Christmas treats feel extra fun.
- Make Ahead Dessert– These Golden Oreo truffles freeze well, you can easily make these truffles ahead and freeze them for your parties and special occasions.
Make more Grinch inspired Christmas desserts for your cookie tray or party! Try my no bake caramel pretzels dipped in green chocolate for a cute and easy Grinch decoration, or my Christmas thumbprint cookies with a green Grinch-inspired center!
Ingredients For Christmas Oreo Balls
- 36 Golden Oreos or other crunchy vanilla cream cookies, 14.3 ounce package
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1/4 cup nonpareil sprinkles – optional, this type of sprinkle tends not to bleed the color into the dough. If you use a jimmie style Christmas sprinkles the color will likely bleed
- 18 ounces green candy melts – you can find these at a craft store, and often at a local grocery store.
- heart shaped sprinkles
Making Oreo Balls for a holiday dessert platter? Try adding chocolate peppermint oreo balls, pumpkin pie cheesecake balls or my classic chocolate no bake oreo ball recipe for a few twists on a favorite treat this time of year. Or make these really fun melting snowman oreo balls, so cute!
How To Make Christmas Oreo Balls
- Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place cookies in food processor and mix until cookies turn into fine crumbs. See notes if you don’t have a food processor.
- Add cookie crumbs, the block of cream cheese and nonpareil sprinkles (optional) to a large bowl. Mix the dough with a silicone spatula. If you mix the truffle mixture in the food processor, the cream cheese mixture can become too liquidy so mix by hand.
- Roll the cookie truffle dough balls, about one tablespoon per truffle. I like to use this cookie scoop set, for this recipe you’ll need the small cookie scoop to make 1-inch balls. Place each truffle on the parchment paper lined baking sheet so they are not touching for best results. Freeze the truffles for at least 15 minutes.
- Add the green candy melt chocolate to a heatproof bowl. Place the bowl in the microwave and heat for a minute at half power, then stir. Continue heating the candy melt chocolate in thirty-second increments until it forms a smooth chocolate sauce.
- Remove truffles from freezer. Place truffle balls into green chocolate one at a time to coat, using a fork so excess chocolate can drip off. Place each truffle ball on parchment paper so they are not touching each other.
- Drizzle the top of each truffle with a little more green candy melt chocolate top with a heart sprinkle. Place the pan in the freezer for 15 minutes to help the chocolate to fully harden, then enjoy!
Variation Ideas
- Make Them Chocolate Inside– I’ve used Golden Oreos to make more of a sugar cookie-flavored Oreo ball. You can easily swap out chocolate Oreos like I’ve done in my classic chocolate oreo balls, or even chocolate mint Oreos.
Try these grinch inspired oreo balls on a cute holiday platter or cookie tray. Add these snowman oreo balls or these peppermint Oreo cookie balls to make a full festive tray.
How Long Do These Christmas Oreo Balls Last?
These truffles will easily last a week in the refrigerator when stored in an airtight container. Use layers of freezer paper, wax paper or parchment between the truffles to separate the layers and freeze in a single layer.
These Golden Oreo cookie balls need to be refrigerated when stored because of the cream cheese.
Can You Freeze Christmas Oreo Balls?
You can totally freeze this no bake treat, they hold up great! Sometimes I actually prefer to store truffles in the freezer until I am ready to gift or share them for a cookie exchange.
Keep frozen truffles between layers of freezer paper in a freezer-safe zip-top bag or container meant for the freezer. I like to freeze these treats on a cookie sheet first so they don’t stick together, and then place them in a bag with the paper in between.
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Christmas Tree Rice Krispie Treats– These adorable rice krispie treats make the cutest green Christmas trees!
Homemade Peppermint Patties – Sweet, creamy homemade peppermint candies wrapped in chocolate are perfect for adding to a treat tray or gift.
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Christmas Oreo Balls (Grinch Inspired!)
Ingredients
- 36 Golden Oreos or other crunchy vanilla cream cookies, 14.3 ounce package
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1/4 cup nonpareil sprinkles optional
- 18 ounces green candy melts
- heart shaped sprinkles optional
Instructions
- Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place cookies in food processor and mix until cookies turn into fine crumbs. See notes if you don’t have a food processor.
- Add cookie crumbs, cream cheese and nonpareil sprinkles (optional) to a large bowl. Mix the dough with a silicone spatula. If you mix the truffle mixture in the food processor, the cream cheese mixture can become too liquidy so mix by hand.
- Roll the cookie truffle dough balls, about one tablespoon per truffle. I like to use this cookie scoop set, for this recipe you'll need the small cookie scoop. Place each truffle on the parchment paper lined baking sheet so they are not touching. Freeze the truffles for at least 15 minutes.
- Add the green candy melt chocolate to a heatproof bowl. Place the bowl in the microwave and heat for a minute at half power, then stir. Continue heating the candy melt chocolate in thirty second increments until it forms a smooth chocolate sauce.
- Remove truffles from freezer. Place truffle balls into green chocolate one at a time to coat, using a fork so excess chocolate can drip off. Place each truffle ball on parchment paper so they are not touching each other.
- Drizzle the top of each truffle with a little more green candy melt chocolate top with a heart sprinkle. Place the pan in the freezer for 15 minutes to help the chocolate to fully harden, then enjoy!
Notes
- Making Cookie Crumbs Without a Food Processor
- If you don’t have a food processor, you can place the cookies in a gallon size strong zip-top bag. Use a rolling pin or even a full canned good to crush the cookies into crumbs inside the bag.
- After the cookies have become crumbs, you can mix in the rest of the ingredients with the cookie crumbs with an electric mixer. If you don’t have an electric mixer you can mix them together by hand but it may take a little longer and the cream cheese needs to be well softened.
- Using Oil In The Chocolate– If the chocolate melting wafers are too thick, you can stir in a tablespoon of oil to thin it out. Adding a little bit of oil is typically not needed as often with melting wafers as it is with chocolate chips, but can be added if needed. I prefer to use a tablespoon of coconut oil but you can use a tablespoon of any of these oils.
- Coconut Oil
- Vegetable Shortening
- Vegetable oil
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