Cookie Truffles

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb chocolate sandwich style cookies
• 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, using different extracts allows for subtle flavour changes...i've used mint extract, upped to 1 teas
• 1 lb milk chocolate
• 1/2 lb white chocolate

Recipe

• 1 using a food processor, grind cookies to a fine powder. with a mixer, blend cookie powder, cream cheese and vanilla extract until thoroughly mixed (there should be no white traces of cream cheese).
• 2 roll into small balls and place on wax-lined cookie sheet. refrigerate for 45 minutes.
• 3 line two cookie sheets with wax paper. in double-boiler, melt milk chocolate. dip balls and coat thoroughly. with slotted spoon, lift balls out of chocolate and let excess chocolate drip off. place on wax-paper-lined cookie sheet.
• 4 in separate double-boiler, melt white chocolate. using a fork, drizzle white chocolate over balls. let cool.
• 5 store in airtight container, in refrigerator.
• 6 note: when i am exceedingly lazy (most often the case these days), i forego the chocolate "dip" and merely roll my truffles in various mixtures - chopped nuts, chocolate sprinles, vari-colored candy sprinkles, cocoa powder, chocolate shavings, colored sugars-still pretty-less work.