Valentine's Part One: Making Oreo Truffles

Garrett recently made a comment about how he was surprised I had never attempted to make Oreo truffles, and I know how dearly he loves them, so I thought making some would be a nice Valentine's day gift. I went off of two recipes that were basically the same. I'll go ahead and give a few notes about these recipes up front. The first calls for one 16 oz. package of Oreos. When I looked at my Oreos, the package was more than 16 oz. I went ahead and decided to set aside nine cookies as it suggested, not the seven that the second recipe suggested, and that worked out fine. I was worried while mixing the cream cheese and the crumbs that I had way too many crumbs for the cream cheese, but it ended up working out alright. Also, like the second recipe, I would recommend white chocolate instead of milk chocolate, but I'll get into that later.

The ingredients are Oreos, cream cheese, and bark/baker's chocolate (whatever you wish to call it). I added the sprinkles for a fun Valentine's Day touch.

Don't forget to turn on the tunes. Optional... but fun. :)
The first step is to crush the Oreos. The method I went with was putting the Oreos in a Ziplock bag and crushing them with the rolling pin. I'm pretty sure the food processor route would be much easier, but I don't have one.

It took a good bit of effort, but I got it ground up.
Then, you mix the ground cheese with the crumbs. Again, probably easier with a food processor, as this definitely took some elbow work!

Then you use the mix to roll up truffle balls.

The next part was melting the chocolate. I decided to use Caroline's double-boiler method since she's pretty much a baking expert.

It took some time, but the white chocolate came out just right.

Some of the regular chocolate looked like it was going to burn soon whereas some of it was lumpy, so I removed it at that point and used it.

Then came the dipping. The white chocolate was easier to work with as far as it stayed at a smoother consistency, but it was harder to cover the Oreos. The milk chocolate had a terrible consistency but it was easier to cover the Oreos... just not the truffle so much. They were a clumpy mess!

Ick. By the way, anyone have dipping tips? I did chill the truffles while the chocolate was melting, which I think may have helped from them being an even bigger mess.

Thankfully the white ones looked a little better. And after adding sprinkles they were ready to chill then eat. Garrett was very appreciative and said they were yummy, so I'd say it was a success, even if they were a little ugly.

More about Valentine's coming in the next day or two. Anyone else cook or bake anything for the occasion?