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!

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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 ExtraServe with your favorite fresh fruit, such as strawberries, pear slices and/or orange sections, instead of, or in addition to, the apple slices.
SubstituteServe 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.
SubstituteSubstitute 1/2 cup white chocolate chips or 1/4 cup white sprinkles for the orange sugar.