Game Day Spirit Cookie Footballs

Name: Game Day Spirit Cookie Footballs
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 48
Ingredients: 1 pkg. brick cream cheese, softened; 36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed; 4 pkg. semi-sweet baking chocolate, melted; 2 Tbsp. decorating icing

Celebrate the game with these fun cookie ball footballs - dipped in chocolate and decorated in your favorite team's colors. They'll be the hit of the tailgate.

Prep time:

0 min

Total time:

0 h 0 min

Servings:

Makes 48 servings.

Ingredient list

1 pkg. (8 oz.) brick cream cheese, softened
36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed
4 pkg. (4 oz. each) semi-sweet baking chocolate, melted
2 Tbsp. EACH of 2 different colors decorating icing

Directions

Mix cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended.

Shape into 48 (1-inch) football shapes. Freeze 10 min.

Cover rimmed baking sheet with waxed paper. Dip cream cheese footballs, 1 at a time, into melted chocolate, turning to evenly coat all sides of each football with chocolate; place on prepared baking sheet.

Use icings to draw laces on footballs.

Refrigerate 1 hour or until chocolate is firm. Keep refrigerated.

Recipe Tips

Special Extra
Melt 1 oz. of EACH of several different colors of candy coating wafers as directed on package. Use instead of the decorating icings to pipe the laces onto the footballs.
Variation
Substitute 1/4 cup white decorating icing for the colored icings. Use to draw the laces on the footballs. Add sprinkles or nonpareils in the colors of the two football teams playing in the big game.
Make it Simple
Instead of shaping the cream cheese mixture into football shapes, roll it into 48 (1-inch) balls. Decorate with sprinkles or icings as desired.