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The Flavor Bender Recipes All Dessert Recipes Christmas OREO Cookie Balls (Decorating Tutorial)

Christmas OREO Cookie Balls (Decorating Tutorial)

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Author: Dini K.
Posted: 11/20/2017
Updated: 1/15/2020
Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, Hot cocoa mug truffles, pine cone truffles, and Christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!

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Learn how to decorate Mint OREO balls for the holiday season – and make these easy, fun, delicious and no-bake Christmas baubles OREO cookie balls, Christmas trees OREO truffles, Hot cocoa mugs OREO truffles and pine cone OREO truffles! Get the step by step instructions with a detailed recipe video!

Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, Hot cocoa mug truffles, pine cone truffles, and Christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!

I love making cookie truffles because they are just so much fun and quintessentially Christmassy. And OREO balls are my favorite. Plus, these only take 3 ingredients, so you can whip ’em up at a moment’s notice too.

Mint OREO cookies for Mint OREO truffles!

Since OREO comes in different flavors, I decided to make these OREO balls with my favorite – Mint OREO! What I loved even more about these mint OREO balls was decorating them. There’s nothing like decorating cookies and cookie truffles to bring out the spirit of the seasons, and unleash your creativity too! I’m going to share 4 of my favorite ways to decorate these Christmas OREO balls that would make these perfect for your holiday gatherings.

Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, Hot cocoa mug truffles, pine cone truffles, and Christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!

Shimmery Christmas Baubles OREO Cookie  Balls (Christmas Ornament OREO Balls)

Hot Cocoa Mugs OREO Cookie Ball

Christmas Tree OREO Cookie Balls

and Pine Cone OREO Cookie Balls

Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, Hot cocoa mug truffles, pine cone truffles, and Christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!

I bought my Mint OREO from my local Walmart, and these were mixed with cream cheese and then coated with chocolate (semi-sweet or white or colored chocolate). That’s ALL you need to make regular Mint OREO balls (Mint OREO truffles). But here I’m using a few extra items to decorate them for the holiday season. I’ll list out these items below.

Christmas OREO balls decorating ideas - Shapes for the Hot cocoa mug cookie truffle, and the Christmas baubles.
Christmas OREO balls - The shapes for the Pine cone cookie truffles, and Christmas tree truffles.

Shimmery Christmas baubles

Melted chocolate for decorations
Mini candies to stick on top
Luster spray OR
Luster dust in your favorite colors

Christmas OREO balls - What you need to make the Christmas baubles.

Hot cocoa mugs OREO balls

Mini marshmallows (I cut the large marshmallows into small pieces)
Colored candy melts or edible pens (candy melts work better)
Pretzels for the handle on the mug

Christmas OREO balls - What you need to decorate the Hot cocoa mug OREO cookie Balls.
Hot cocoa mug OREO truffles - Cut the pretzels into 3 so you get two pieces that you can use as mug handles.

Christmas tree OREO balls

Green candy melts (to coat)
Colorful confetti
Luster dust
Confetti stars, or yellow candies, coated with gold luster dust

Christmas Tree OREO balls - What you need to make the Christmas tree oreo cookie truffles
Green candy melts, yellow candies (dusted with gold luster), sprinkles
Christmas OREO balls decoration ideas - Mix luster dust with the hundred and thousands sprinkles.
Mix edible luster dust with the hundred and thousands sprinkles.

Pine cone OREO balls

Almond slices
Cocoa powder
Confectioner’s sugar (optional)

Hot cocoa mug OREO balls - Personalize each OREO ball with melted candy melts! Christmas OREO balls - what you need to decorate the Pine cone OREO cookie truffles

These Christmas OREO balls (Mint OREO truffles) are a great way to get your kids involved as they are no-bake too. They can help with making the OREO balls as well decorating them. And these cute Mint OREO truffles make excellent gifts too!

Shimmery Christmas baubles

When making these Christmas baubles, I used semi-sweet chocolate dipped OREO balls for gold luster spray (or dust). For all the other colors, I used white chocolate dipped OREO balls, as the colors stand out more.

When using luster dust, use a round paint brush so that you can “dust” the baubles with the luster dust over a larger area.

Christmas Baubles OREO balls - Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, Hot cocoa truffles, pine cone truffles, and Christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!

Hot cocoa mugs OREO balls

I really love how these turned out. I dipped the Mint OREO balls in white candy melts, and made sure to remove any chocolate inside the pretzel handle too.

After dipping these OREO balls, they were placed on a small layer of chocolate, so that the bottoms are coated evenly as well. This helped me get an even base by trimming the excess as well.

I added the chocolate on top for the “hot cocoa” effect, plus this way I can stick the marshmallows on top as well. I used homemade marshmallows, but you can use store-bought marshmallows that have been cut to smaller pieces.

As an added touch, I used melted chocolate to stick “candy cane” confetti on top too.

Using leftover melted candy melts, I piped mug decorations so that they looked more like mugs as well. I piped the word “love” (’cause we can always use more love in the world!), a heart, mistletoe, and a Christmas tree. Other great ideas would be smiley faces (emoji), flowers and snowflakes (I wanted to do this, but I ran out of blue candy melts, bah!). You can even dip the “mugs” in different colors too.

Hot cocoa mug OREO balls - Personalize each OREO ball with melted candy melts! Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!

Christmas tree OREO balls

I wanted colorful sprinkles with some sheen. I couldn’t find this, BUT I did find colorful mini sprinkles! I mixed these with some luster dust to add some sheen to be used for the Christmas tree decorations.

I also bought some mini chocolate candies. I chose the yellow colored ones and mixed them with some gold luster dust. I used these as “stars”.

Once the Christmas tree OREO balls have been dipped in the green candy coating, I piped a swirl of the chocolate around the tree. WHILE THE SWIRL IS WET, sprinkle the luster dust confetti so that they stick to the tree. I ended up with gorgeous Christmas tree truffles with a little luster dust and colorful sprinkles!

Christmas tree OREO balls - Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, Hot cocoa truffles, pine cone truffles, and Christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!

Pine cone OREO balls

These were K’s favorite! The egg shaped OREO balls were dipped in semi-sweet chocolate, and while the chocolate coating is still wet, I added the cocoa dusted almond slices (see recipe video).

If the coating sets before you’re able to add the almond slices, don’t worry! Just dip the base of the almond slices in melted chocolate, and stick them on the Mint OREO truffle in the same pattern.

Christmas OREO balls decorating ideas - For Pine cone truffles, stick cocoa dusted almond slices for a realistic and gorgeous, earthy Pine cone truffle! Dust it with confectioner's sugar for a snowy look!
Christmas OREO balls decorating ideas - For Pine cone truffles, stick cocoa dusted almond slices for a realistic and gorgeous, earthy Pine cone truffle! Dust it with confectioner's sugar for a snowy look!
Christmas OREO balls decorating ideas - For Pine cone truffles, stick cocoa dusted almond slices for a realistic and gorgeous, earthy Pine cone truffle! Dust it with confectioner's sugar for a snowy look!
Christmas OREO balls decorating ideas - For Pine cone truffles, stick cocoa dusted almond slices for a realistic and gorgeous, earthy Pine cone truffle! Dust it with confectioner's sugar for a snowy look!

The result? A GORGEOUS truffle that looks just like a pine cone! Dust it with some confectioner’s sugar for that “snowy” look! K couldn’t believe these were actual truffles – so your guests will love these too!

Pine cone OREO Truffles - Learn how to make these fantastic and realistic Pine cone cookie truffles! Perfect for regular chocolate truffles too.

These Christmas OREO balls are so delicious. The mint flavor comes through and adds a really refreshing flavor without making the OREO balls too sweet. They are so perfectly fudgy in texture too. And they look so Christmassy, you might almost not want to eat them… almost.

Christmas OREO balls decorating ideas - See how perfectly fudgy these Mint oreo truffles are! They are so delicious and so pretty too!

So go ahead and make these Christmas OREO balls (OREO truffles) happen this year! 🙂

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Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, Hot cocoa truffles, pine cone truffles, and Christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!
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Christmas OREO Balls (Mint OREO Truffles)

Author: Dini K.
Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, Hot cocoa mug truffles, pine cone truffles, and Christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!
Cook time is for each batch (not all decorations combined), there is also about 3 hours of inactive time (chilling time). 
Prep: 40 minutes
Cook: 5 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Servings: 26 truffles
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Ingredients:

Mint OREO Balls (for the truffle base) - makes 26, 1 ½ inch balls or 48, 1 inch balls

  • 36 Mint OREO cookies
  • 8 oz cream cheese

Christmas Baubles Truffles (for 1 batch of OREO balls)

  • ½ lb semi-sweet baking chocolate melted
  • ½ lb white baking chocolate melted
  • Mini caramel candies
  • Edible gold luster spray
  • Edible white luster spray for white pearl colors
  • Luster dust any color

Pine Cone Truffles (for 1 batch of OREO balls)

  • 1 lb semi-sweet baking chocolate melted
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • ½ cup sliced almonds you need fully sliced almonds, with fewer broken pieces - if there are broken pieces, you may need more almonds
  • Confectioner’s sugar optional

Hot Cocoa Mugs Truffles

  • 15 - 30 pretzels
  • 1 lb white chocolate melted
  • 4 oz milk chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate
  • 2 large marshmallows
  • Colored melted candy coating
  • Piping bags
  • Candy cane shaped confetti optional

Christmas Tree Truffles

  • 1 lb green candy melts melted
  • Colorful mini sprinkles hundreds and thousands
  • Pinch of gold and silver luster dust
  • Yellow candies or yellow stars
US Customary - Metric

Instructions:

Mint OREO Balls (truffle base)

  • Crush the OREO cookies in a food processor until you have fine crumbs.
  • Place the crumbs in a bowl with the softened cream cheese.
  • Mix cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended.

Christmas Baubles (for 1 batch of OREO balls)

  • Shape the cookie ball base into 48 - 1 inch balls, or 26 - 1½ inch balls.
  • Place these cookie balls on a parchment paper lined tray and freeze for 10 minutes OR chill in the fridge overnight.
  • When ready to dip the OREO balls in the chocolate - dip half the OREO balls in the semi-sweet chocolate, and half in the white chocolate. Shake off the excess melted chocolate, and place the truffles on the parchment paper lined tray to set. While the chocolate is sticky, stick the caramel candy on top. Let them set.
  • Optional - place the remaining melted chocolate in a piping bag, and pipe decorations around the OREO balls (swirls, stars, lines).
  • When the chocolate has set, spray paint the OREO balls with the gold and white luster spray. OR dust the white OREO balls with colored luster dust. Let them set.
  • Once the paint has set, they are ready to be served.

Hot Cocoa Mugs Truffles

  • Cut the pretzels into 3 sections. The two “wings” will be used as mug handles.
  • Chill the OREO balls base in the fridge for about 30 minutes. This makes it easier to shape.
  • Take a cookie scoopful of the OREO ball base and roll it into a cylindrical shape, with a flat base and top. Repeat with the rest. Place these on a parchment paper lined tray. Press the pretzel “handle” into the side.
  • Freeze for 10 minutes, or overnight in the fridge.
  • When ready to dip, prepare the marshmallows by cutting them into small pieces. They do not have to be neat.
  • Dip the mugs into melted white chocolate, and shake off the excess. Place the “mug” on a small layer of melted white chocolate on top of a parchment paper lined tray. Spread a little melted semi-sweet chocolate on top for the “hot cocoa” effect and place a few marshmallows on top. Let them set. Trim the excess white chocolate at the base of the OREO balls.
  • Once the chocolate has set, draw any design you like on the mug using colored candy melts in piping bags. Once the chocolate has set, they are ready to be served.

Pine Cone Truffles (for 1 batch of OREO balls)

  • Take a cookie scoopful of the OREO ball base and shape it into an egg (or avocado shape). Repeat with the rest. Place these on a parchment paper lined tray. Freeze for 10 minutes in the freezer or overnight in the fridge.
  • When the OREO balls are ready to be dipped, prepare the almond slices. Mix the sliced almonds with the cocoa powder, so that they are slightly coated with the cocoa powder “dirt”.
  • Dip the OREO balls in the melted chocolate and place them on a parchment paper lined tray.
  • Before the chocolate sets, place the almond slivers on top of the OREO balls. Start from the tip, and overlap the almond slices until you get to the base (see recipe video). Let the chocolate set. If the chocolate sets before you finish, dip the bases of the almond slices in the chocolate, and stick them on the OREO balls.
  • Once the chocolate sets, sift confectioner's sugar over the pine cones for that snowy effect and serve.

Christmas Tree Truffles

  • Chill the OREO balls base in the fridge for about 30 minutes. This makes it easier to shape.
  • Shape a cookie scoopful of the OREO ball base into a pine cone. Repeat with the rest. Place these on a parchment paper lined tray. Freeze for 10 minutes or chill in the fridge overnight.
  • Dip the OREO balls in the melted green chocolate. Shake off the excess and place them on a parchment paper lined tray. Stick a yellow candy or star on top of each tree. Let them set.
  • Place about 2 tbsp of the mini sprinkles in a small bowl. Add a pinch of silver and/or gold luster dust and stir to coat the sprinkles. Set aside until needed.
  • Place the remaining melted green chocolate in a piping bag and pipe a swirl of the chocolate from the base to the tip. Dust the tree with mini sparkling confetti, so that it sticks to the melted chocolate. Let the trees set. Serve.

Tips & Tricks

Note - store the OREO balls in the fridge until you’re ready to serve.

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Christmas OREO balls - Fun and easy decoration ideas for these Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, Hot cocoa truffles, pine cone truffles, and Christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting for the holiday season!

I got my Mint OREO cookies and all the other decorating items from Walmart. Get your favorite OREO cookie flavor from your local supermarket today to make your OWN Christmas OREO balls! Which decoration will be your favorite? It’s easy to find OREO because it’s in the cookie aisle and there are SO MANY to choose from!

Where to find OREO cookies!

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  1. Danny says

    December 8, 2019 at 17:13

    5 stars
    bro this is so smart. i’m gonna start deorating my peanut butter balls with almonds to makr them look like pinecones! thanks!

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  2. Julia says

    November 20, 2017 at 15:23

    5 stars
    They are all cute but the cone ones are absolutely adorable. They look like some works of art. So gorgeous. And I’m sure they are yummy also!

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