Oreo Kisses
1 package oreo cookies (divided… use cookie including the cream center)
1 8oz. package cream cheese (softened)
chocolate bark
1. Finely crush all but seven cookies in a food processor or place them in a ziploc bag and crush into a fine consistency.
2. Stir in softened cream cheese. Use the back of a large spoon to help mash the two together.
3. Roll the mixture into 1" balls and place on wax paper covered cookie sheet.
4. Then, begin to form the shape of a kiss. Flattening the bottom and forming a point at the top. (Mine ended up about 1.5" tall)
5. It helps to put the uncoated balls in the freezer for a few minutes to keep the mixture from starting to fall apart when you drop into the melted chocolate.
6. Melt chocolate as directed on package and then dip "kisses" one at a time into chocolate, tap off extra and slide them off spoon onto wax paper covered cookie sheet to dry.
7. Once dry, refrigerate and enjoy! Oh yeah, just eat the extra seven cookies.
Decorate:
1. Handwrite your messages or create them on the computer. Cut out the strips (about 1/4" tall and however wide you need).
2. Cut up some square sheets of aluminum foil (about 5.5" square)
3. Place dry kiss in center and start wrapping the foil around the base. Insert message near top and secure it by pressing the foil together at top.
Related:
Oreo Truffles
Super Bowl Truffles
Nutter Butter Balls
Oreo Truffle recipe amended from Kraft Food & Family Fall 2006.
76 comments:
ok, this is a very amateur-y question, but this is the funny part: I'M NOT AN AMATEUR! i've tried to make oreo balls (and other things dipped in chocolate) like 45 times in my short life, and i don't know how ANYONE does it. i use candy melting chocolate. i freeze the things to be dipped. i've tried toothpicks, i've tried skewers, i've tried spons, etc, and every time, one of three things happen:
-the ball falls off the toothpick or falls apart
- it ALMOST falls off the toothpick, but after dipping, even if i tap off the excess, the chocolate pools EXCESSIVELY at the bottom (not just a few centimeters)
-one of the above 2 happens and i cry and sit under my desk and suck my thumb for 4 hours
can you help me?! it would be MUCH appreciated.
love,
All Wrong in Austin
(Kelly)
What an adorable idea! I love your blog. :)
-Clara
http://iheartcuppycakes.com
kelly - Don't cry. Maybe this will help a little. I don't use toothpicks and I use chocolate bark for the most part. I just drop the chilled ball (kiss) in a small bowl of melted chocolate one at a time. Then using a spoon, cover the top of the ball. Then I lift it out of the chocolate using the spoon. Next, tap it several times on the side of the bowl to allow excess to fall off the spoon. Then I let it slide off the spoon onto the wax paper. I also get some puddling sometimes, but I'll just break that off when it dries if it is excessive.
Thanks a bunch clara!
hmmm... i have some cake balls chillin in the fridge. i am sooooo tempted to take them out and reshape them into kisses...
have i ever told u? U'RE AWESOME!
I agree with Sharyl....You truly are awesome!!!
They look delicious. i also have kelly's problem and thus avoid trying things like this. Thanks for the advice! maybe, it is time to try again! Happy Valentine's Day!
These are fantastic!
What a beautiful idea.
I just made the Oreo Cookie Truffles last night and they rock! How amazing, thanks for sharing, now I need to make kisses too - thanks something else to do! :)
I just discovered your blog and I want to say that you are a genius! I love love love the creations you made. They are adorable and look delicious. I can't wait to give some of these recipes a try. Way to go!
Oh my god! You done it again! These are adorable! Everything you make is just so cute and adorable! They're just wonderful!!
I love your creative ideas!
These are adorable!! I've seen the Oreo truffles on several blogs, but never anything shaped like a kiss!
Oreos come in different sized packages in different areas/countries.
Can you please tell me the exact number of cookies used for this recipe?
Thanks
I love the creations that you come up with! I am so glad that I found your blog!
Okay, that is the cutest thing ever! You rock! Great ideas.
May I offer some suggestions. I am assuming that you are pretty new to this. I would work on how you list recipes as well as presentation. The food while cute, does not look as appetizing as it could. Keep trying and I am sure you will get the hang of it.
-DIVINE BAKING DIVA
Love the post. And the kisses.
When I dip, I use a plastic fork with the two middle tines broken off. Works like a charm!
These are so cute! What a perfect little Valentine's Day gift. I made the mistake of letting my daughter see these and now she's begging me to make them.
i love your posts. the photography and styling are just beautiful! this is already one of my favourite blogs and my first visit was yesterday!
I have another amateur-y question. Are you married?
I'm not sure if it's because of the writer's strike or because baseball season is still weeks away, but I find myself going back to your blog everyday anticipating the next creation.
I've been holding out for a woman who can cook. Someone named Bakerella with an oven… you don't have a big-screen do you? That would be the trifecta.
You're desserts look amazing, but if you are ever in need a tastetester… I'm AVAILABLE.
Thanks! I'm going to add your link to my blog - heidisrecipes.blogspot.com
these are so cute!
*You rock* Bakerella! I don't think I have time to make these before tomorrow, but I'll get around to them. Thanks for the great recipe, photo, and instructions!
An adorable idea!!!
heya bakerella, is it meant to be a teeny sourish due to the cheese? and the chocolate that it's coated with is a tad brittle right?
Wow!!!!!! Thanks everyone for the really great comments!
kelly - I used the regular oreo package, not the double stuf. I went to the nabisco site. I think it's the 18 oz. package that I used. (the whole package, minus about seven cookies.) I'll count how many comes in the package next time.
megan - thanks for the tip.
hungry in hoboken – funny!
wyeinnazi - No, not sour…they'll be sweet. And the chocolate does harden, but I wouldn't call it brittle.
Wow, you are full of great ideias!!
I really like your blog, so many cool pictures!!
I got here through Tarah's blog!
Thanks for sharing all your creations with us, I am going to have some fun browsing your recipes!
Ana
Hi Bakerella,
I found you blog today by via NotMartha.com. You ideas are brilliant and I cannot wait to make those little mini cupcakes on a stick!! I will be reading you blog now daily -- yes, it's that cool!
Your Ho! Ho! Ut Oh cupcakes made me want to share with you a treat I made last year (and this year) for Groundhog Day. I use tootsie rolls for the groundhogs but I think using your candy-bark coated cake would be a better eating experience. http://dozenflours.com/2007/02/groundhog-day-celebration-cupcakes_02.html (BTW I promise I picked this template a long, long time ago :-))
You rock!!
Julia
I made these today for my girlfriend, and they came out to be pretty good! Except, I thought they were kinda a little sweet for me, but then again, I don't have a high tolerance for sweets, and mine were a littleee bigger. And was it just mine or was the truffle filling really really oily? I didn't use bark, but I used some Ghiradelli baking chocolate and it turned out okay. All in all, a pretty successful venture. Great recipe and idea, thanks!
Bakerella,
I wanted to let you know that I made the dipped lollipops from your earlier posts. I made it exactly like yours...red velvet w/pink coating. The first several were tricky, but I certainly got it down to a science and they turned out beautifully.
I ened up with nearly 60 of them and my both my daughter's classes are going to be thrilled when I bring them in for Valentine's Day tomorrow! My husband ate one and couldn't get over how delicious and cute they were!
Thank you for sharing your creativity and by doing so, making me feel pretty creative too!
P.S. I found that freezing them in small groups on plastic plates allowed me to pull out 6-7 at a time. I froze them for a few hours and they held up great in the warmed chocolate. It also aided in the cooling/setting of the chocolate coating.
I am just tickled about them. Can't wait to try to oreo balls sometime soon!
I'm a BIG fan and thanks again!!!
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What a sweet little idea! Those would be the only kisses allowed to be given in our home, since we're all getting some crud.
Congrats on your BlogAward!
I love, Love LOVE your blog!!! I have a question ... I am a baker but am afraid of fondant, any helpful hints for a virgin fondanter? I want to try your roses but I am so intimidated!!
Tracey
So so so so cute!
oreo kisses?? now THESE are just too fun!! Happy Valentine's Day!! :0)
What an amazingly cool idea! Very creative!
This is so creative and cute. I am definitely going to need an occasion to make these for! Love them.
Sues
These look wonderful! I will have to give them a try sometime.
I love how you photograph your creations. No matter what I do, my photos look lousy. Do you use a special light? I can tell you do something special for the backdrops.
Great site - I've got you bookmarked now. Found you on Baking Bites.
What a fabulous website! this is the first time for me to visit it; I was amazed to c ur creativity :D
Just found your blog and have fallen in love. Amazingly cute ideas!
I love your cakes! They have inspired me to make more than just cookies and sponge cakes!
I've just given you a 'You Make My Day Award'. See my blog for details.
ana - thanks. I'll have to check hers out.
julia - those are super cute groundhogs.
larry - not sure, maybe your cream cheese was too softened? But I'm glad you and your girlfriend enjoyed!
robyn - That's so great! I'm glad you had success.
blogawards - Wow! Thanks. Can't wait to check it out.
rachelle - thanks
tracey - you shouldn't be afraid. Just grab a box and read the direections and start playing. (Just have a clean surface, rolling pin, corn starch, cookie cutters, and some concentrated decorating colors) Just start small and have fun.
hilary - thanks
veggiegirl - Happy Valentine's Day, too!
stef - thank you
we are not martha - thanks
amys - I just use natural light and decorative papers. I'll check out Baking Bites.
bb - thank you
sarah - glad you like it
jo - Thanks for the make my day award! It made mine.
Hi Bakerella!
I would like to ask, how many pieces of oreo is there in a pack? I'm from Singapore and i guess the packaging varies from country to country?
Again....love all your work. And I love your beautiful photos too.What camera do you use?
I can't wait for your new post.
:) a.
rachel - I bought some today so I could count for you. There are 45. So use about 38 when you mix with cream cheese.
ana - I have a canon rebel xti and I have loved every minute of it.
Bakerella could you contact me at:
ana_jole@yahoo.com
I would have some questions for you... :)
Thank you.
a.
Wow, your cookie truffles are genius.
thanks jessica!
those are fabulous! love them!
Bakerella!
Thanks for the camera info, you rock! I tried the kisses today however my hubby bought the mint double stuffed (he's a little partial to those). So I had to work with it, here's what I came up with.
38 pairs of oreo wafers
filling from 20 of the oreos/discard the rest
8 oz. cream cheese.
I then ground wafers, set aside
in a mixer mix cream cheese and filling to a smooth consistency, add wafer crumbs.
Shape and mold. I did one tray hand rolled and shaped and then I thought, hey maybe I could pipe these. Sure enough they worked GREAT piped and went a lot faster. By the time they were dipped I couldn't even tell which were which (except that my hand-mades were a tad bigger. After they set with the regualr chocolate, I drizzled some melted ghiradelli mint chips on top and they look cute! All credit goes to you though, thanks for the great blog!
adrienne - that sounds really great. I plan on making the mint ones soon and realized the ratios would be off, so thanks for the tip.
fyi - I've also seen off brand mint oreos that are the same size as the regular ones. But, so far I can't find oreo brand mint ones that aren't Double Stuf.
hi bakerella,
i tried making kisses yesterday. Part 1 (which was mushing the cream cheese and oreos together) was successful ;). However part 2 is a different story altogether! I can't get chocolate barks where I am so I naively substituted with baking chocolate. Wrong call huh...the choc won't melt properly. Anyway after wasting one precious kisses, I decided to abort the project. So today I'm getting a pack of Hershey's semi sweet choc chips and will try again. Any advise please? I have about 40 kisses sitting in the freezer waiting to be coated. :)
I haven't tried them with choc chips, so I don't know if they are going to work out like you would want.
Can you get the candy melts/wafers/discs where you are. They are little round discs used for candy coating. That's what I use if I don't use the bark.
Wilton brand makes some.
But if the chips are all you have, go for it. Good Luck!
Omaong -
Here's some wilton examples
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rs=284507&keywords=candy%20melts&bbn=284507&rh=n%3A284507%2Ck%3Acandy%20melts
and here's another brand
http://www.necco.com/OurProducts/ProductDetails.asp?ProductID=98
hi bakerella, that was a quick reply, thanks!
I have not seen the products that you mentioned in stores here (I'm in KL), I guess I'll have to keep my fingers crossed that the chop chips will work.
Thanks anyway, and keep up the fantastic work. You have no idea how inspired i am. :) If you ever teach a class and I can be there, I'll be the 1st one to sign up ;) Cheers!
omaong - you're sweet. I'm usually not that quick to respond, but you got lucky… I had just sat down at the computer. Let me know how things go!
dear bakerella, thanks to the link you sent I was able to find a local distributor for Wilton's products. I was overjoyed ;) Got the candy melts BUT it didn't work out. 1st batch that I melted in the microwave turned lumpy (i think i overheated it), 2nd batch I tried the double boiling method but it didn't melt to the right consistency. It's more to the 'creamy' texture so I wasn't able to dip the kisses properly. How do I achieve the choc fondue texture? Any recovery action that I can take? Thanks a lot!
omaong - that's great! Go back to the first method and retry. Just put in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time and stir in between until it is smooth and melted. The texture will probably be a creamy, not liquidy melted chocolate. You can put the kiss on a spoon and submerge in the chocolate, using the same spoon cover the top completely. Then take the spoon and lift the kiss out of the chocolate. Then you'll want to tap it pretty good several times on the side of your bowl, so the excess falls off. Finally, let the kiss slide off the spoon so the flat side lands on the wax paper. (Tapping is the key) Try not to get any pooling at the bottom. If you do, slide kiss across the wax paper, so when it dries, you can break off any thin remnant amounts of chocolate. I hope this helps some.
okay bakerella, will try. thanks so much for the tips!
I really hope you have better luck this time. Don't give up.
Hi, I stumbled onto your site this week by looking for places to buy Nutter-Butters in bulk, and while here, discovered some yummy and cute things, including the Oreo Truffles. My boss's birthday is today, so I decided yesterday that I'd make them. My son did my shopping and he didn't get the white bark. Instead he got Nestles' white morsels, and it didn't work out right. I'm such a fumbler at coatings that usually I pipe them on, but didn't try because of the lumps, etc., so I blobbed some on top, let it set just long enough to blob the tops of the rest, then turned each one over and blobbed the new top. Because the bottom had spread, they almost looked like reversed oreos; if I'd been clever, I'd have flattened them before blobbing the second time, but in the middle of it all that didn't occur to me. They are a great hit despite not looking much like a truffle because of the things above, and what I just noticed that kelly said. Before I try this again, I will fall back on something I KNOW will work for me: Dig out my candy molds and brush the coating into them, let it set up while I'm rolling the balls (making them small enough to fit inside), and then piping some more coating to cover them. IF I want them on a stick (which is what I set out to do), I can stick them in either before or just after piping the final coating in.
linsey-woolsey - I haven't tried nestle morsels, but I can only imagine it was difficult to work with. You know now why the candy coating or bark works best. And, I think your idea of flattening them would have been great as reversed oreos. Very cute.
Where do you get all this ideas...really, you are a GENIUS!!!. I want to make all of them.
But for now i´ll start with the kisses and I had a question, can I make this kisses with a cake recipe? have you tried it?
Tks
I have to disagree with Divina Baking Diva...how much better can these look? They look amazing!
monica - you should be able to.
Jaime- why thanks a bunch Jaime!
Hi , Im from SA (SOUTH AFRICA) and i love the site you cakes and cake pops are stunning
ive tried the cake pop and im must be missing a trick as minealways end up at the bottom end of the stick please help,
also what d i do to make the Chocolate runny enough for coating
thnaks
Carla
Carla - you might be sticking them too far in. Only put it about the halfway point of the ball. Also, make sure the coating surrounds the ball at the base of the stick.
To thin chocolate, you can add a couple of drops of vegetable oil.
Hopefully you'll see this almost a year after the original post! I am going to make these for an office pot luck and I was curious what did you use to make the flags? I mean paper, font, any info you could possibly remember! Thank you so much! I LOVE your blog!
Is possible to substitute cream cheese for something else? Frosting?
I don't usually like the taste of it with chocolate.
Michelle - Sure.
Paper - regular printer paper
font - ?? Helvetica Condensed maybe
Stacey - you can definitely try it. You'll have to experiment with the proportions, though.
Hi Bakerella! I love your blog, your ideas are genious!
I have a few questions about the kisses;
1) Could I use regular chocolate cake mix? I ate out all the oreos... by accident of course.
2) Would it be possible to substitute the cream cheese with store bought frosting?
3) The most important question I have: how long can I keep these little things for? Would it be best to store them in the freezer or the fridge?
Thanks so much! I'll definately be making a batch of these for my friends this Valentine's Day. :)
Such a great idea!
UR MY HERO
Hey Bakerella i was just wondering if chocolate bark is like dark bread crumps for example the oreo ones
I made these for the Valentines party at my daughters 3rd grade class. they were a huge hit!! And they taste SO good. Thanks!!
Becky
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. If you're not using cream cheese, the counter is fine in an airtight container. They'll last for several days.
SHARNA - blushing.
Anonymous - nope. it's chocolate or vanilla candy coating.
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JENNIE! - Cool. I'm sure your daughter was impressed.
hi , im bushed but satisfied i decided to combine your 3 ideas of the kisses,choc box and oreo Cake hearts and creat it for a order of 300 hearts for a party in SA the customer loved them i had a blast making them (i can no longer feel my feet tho) but i love your blog and it is making my bussiness grow in leaps and bounds Thanks you truly are AWESOME
Ott Cakes - wow. I know what you mean. I made 200+ cake pops at one time before and it was exhausting.
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