Big OREO Cookie Ball Spread

Name: Big OREO Cookie Ball Spread
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 1 pkg. brick cream cheese, softened; 36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed; 3 Tbsp. coarse orange-colored sugar; OREO Thins Cookies; 2 EACH apples, each cut into 15 thin slices

Make a giant cookie ball for dessert, flavor it with OREO Cookies then easily decorate it like a basketball. It's a slam dunk!

Prep time:

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Total time:

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Servings:

Makes 2-1/2 cups spread or 20 servings, 2 Tbsp. spread, 2 cookies and 3 apple slices each.

Ingredient list

1 pkg. (8 oz.) brick cream cheese, softened
36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed
3 Tbsp. coarse orange-colored sugar
OREO Thins Cookies
2 EACH green and red apples, each cut into 15 thin slices

Directions

Mix cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended.

Wrap in plastic wrap; shape into ball.

Refrigerate 1 hour or until firm.

Remove and discard plastic wrap. Place colored sugar in pie plate. Add cookie ball; roll to evenly coat cookie ball with sugar.

Use tip of wooden skewer or lollipop stick to draw lines in cookie ball to resemble a basketball as shown in photo.

Serve with cookies and apple slices.

Recipe Tips

Special Extra
Serve with your favorite fresh fruit, such as strawberries, pear slices and/or orange sections, instead of, or in addition to, the apple slices.
Substitute
Serve with your favorite mini cookies, such as Mini NUTTER BUTTER Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies, Mini OREO Cookies and/or Mini CHIPS AHOY! Chocolate Chip Cookies, instead of, or in addition to, the OREO Thins Cookies.
Substitute
Substitute 1/2 cup white chocolate chips or 1/4 cup white sprinkles for the orange sugar.