OREO-Cherry Bomb Cookie Balls

Name: OREO-Cherry Bomb Cookie Balls
Prep time: 45 min
Total time: 115 min
Yield: 60
Ingredients: 1 pkg. brick cream cheese, softened; 36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed; 60 maraschino cherries with stems, patted dry; 4 pkg. white baking chocolate, melted; 2 Tbsp. multi-colored sprinkles (red, white and blue)

Need a patriotic holiday dessert for a crowd? These fun, bite size cookie balls look like fireworks with the maraschino cherry stem coming out of the top!

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Total time:

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Servings:

Makes 60 servings, 1 cookie ball each.

Ingredient list

1 pkg. (8 oz.) brick cream cheese, softened
36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed
60 maraschino cherries with stems, patted dry
4 pkg. (4 oz. each) white baking chocolate, melted
2 Tbsp. multi-colored sprinkles (red, white and blue)

Directions

Mix cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended.

Shape into 60 (3/4-inch) balls, using about 1 tsp. cream cheese mixture for each ball; press to flatten. Top each with 1 cherry, stem side up; wrap cream cheese mixture around cherry to completely enclose cherry. Place in shallow pan. Freeze 10 min.

Cover rimmed baking sheet with waxed paper. Hold cherry stems to dip cookie balls, 1 at a time, into melted chocolate, turning to completely coat all sides of each ball with chocolate. Place on prepared baking sheet. Decorate as shown in photo.

Refrigerate 1 hour or until firm. Keep refrigerated.

Recipe Tips

Substitute
Prepare using 16 oz. white candy coating wafers.
Special Extra
Decorate with melted red and blue candy coating wafers and/or red and blue colored sugars.
Halve the Recipe
For a smaller group, this recipe can be easily halved. Just halve all the ingredients and roll into 30 balls, using 1 tsp. cream cheese mixture for each ball. Continue as directed. Makes 30 servings, 1 cookie ball each.