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I’ll never forget the first time I tried an OREO cookie ball. It was in my Interpersonal Communications class at BYU-Idaho and one of the students doing a group presentation handed out individual baggies of these heavenly little cookie balls to the entire class. And my life was changed forever!
My biggest regret that semester was not getting the recipe to those amazing little OREO Cookie Balls. Then the following Christmas, my dear cousin brought an entire container full of them to the family Christmas party. I could have cried! It’s safe to say that I had more than my fair share of OREO Cookie Balls that night. I immediately snagged the super easy recipe from her (as did everybody else) and have been making them ever since.
My kids love helping me make OREO Cookie Balls and were thrilled when I told them we were going to make some into snowmen. We’ll be putting them on our neighbor treat plates this year and couldn’t wait to make a batch!
You only need three ingredients for OREO Cookie Balls. That’s it! And you can make so many different flavors with all the different OREO options out there. My favorite are the mint OREOs. Walmart was a popular place for OREOs that night! I had to wait for a crowd to move before I snapped this picture. And I was scared I wouldn’t get a package of the mint! Only three left. Phew!
Besides the three ingredients needed to make the actual cookie balls, we need little extras for our snowmen. I bought OREO Mini and chocolate covered caramel candies for the hats, black decorating gel for the eyes and mouth, and I added orange food coloring to some canned vanilla frosting for the noses. Place the orange frosting in a plastic baggy and snip a tiny piece off one of the corners to squeeze out the frosting.
Once you’ve got the OREO Cookie Balls put together, add two dots for the eyes and five for the smile with the black decorating gel. Then use the baggy of orange frosting to squeeze out a little nose. After that you can use leftover vanilla frosting to glue half a piece of OREO Mini to the bottom of a chocolate covered caramel candy to make the hat. Glue the hat onto the cookie ball using more frosting.
You want to know the beautiful thing about these Snowman OREO Cookie Balls? You can’t mess them up. If you have any OREO Cookie Balls that don’t turn out quite as pretty, just turn them into melted snowmen! Too fun!
Snowman OREO Cookie Balls
Ingredients
OFFICIAL OREO COOKIE BALL RECIPE:
- 1 8 oz brick cream cheese, softened
- 36 OREO cookies finely crushed (about 3 cups)
- 4 pkg. 4 oz each semi-sweet baking chocolate, melted
OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS:
- Substitute semi-sweet baking chocolate with six squares of almond bark.
- 1 3.5 oz container OREO mini
- 1 tube black decorating gel
- vanilla frosting
- orange food coloring
- mini sized chocolate covered caramel candies
Instructions
MAKE THE OREO COOKIE BALLS:
- Mix cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended.
- Shape into 48 (1-inch) balls. Freeze 10 min. Dip balls in melted chocolate; place in single layer in shallow waxed paper-lined pan.
- Customize it with your own ingredient additions or decorative skills.
- Refrigerate 1 hour or until firm.
- Share and enjoy!
OPTIONAL SNOWMAN DECORATION:
- While cookie balls are in the refrigerator, prepare other ingredients to decorate like snowmen. Add orange food coloring to vanilla frosting to make the noses and place in a plastic baggy. Snip a tiny piece off the corner so only a little comes out when squeezing. Separate the OREO minis and remove chocolate caramel candies from packaging.
- Decorate cookie balls to look like snowmen. Use the black decorating gel to make eyes and mouth. Add a nose using orange frosting. Using extra vanilla frosting, glue a chocolate covered caramel candy to half an OREO mini to make the hats. Glue onto snowmen with vanilla frosting.
Our neighbors are going to love these Snowman OREO Cookie Balls! If you love OREO Cookie Balls as much as I do, be sure to join the #OREOCookieBall Pinterest party taking place on Saturday, December 6 at 12pm ET. It’s going to be a blast!
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Ann says
The snowman are white, do you use white chocolate? sorry for the dumb ? But didn’t see it anywhere, other than the almond bark!
Alli says
Hi Ann! Almond bark is a lot like white chocolate but it is more of a pure white color. It also doesn’t harden up like white chocolate if it gets too hot. I like using it a lot more than white chocolate for these snowmen.
Heather Swarthout says
I have to admit I’m not the most creative person in the universe. So this post is a little intimidating. I would love make it but I doubt I would make it right!
Heather Swarthout says
So many oreo cookies! It would be awesome to see how many different designs you can make with oreos for every season.
Sandra Lynn says
OMGosh. LOVE. Especially those poor melted Frosty guys, lol. What fun 🙂 Thank you for sharing this fabulous and easy recipe. I stumbled upon you and am getting lost AND hungry in all the foodie madness here 🙂
Allison Miller says
Haha The melted ones are my favorite, too! Thanks so much for your comment and for stopping by!
Heather Swarthout says
It’s awesome that there aren’t that many ingredients needed to make these. They’re so cute. I’m not sure I can make them but I’ll have to try jut for my toddler!
Heather Swarthout says
I wonder if you could make this snowman look like Olaf? That would be awesome if you could do that in your next recipe post! Maybe different designs of how to create this with oreos.
Jennifer Heintz says
I have never had a smowman oreo cookie ball. But, I am a lover of OREO’s!! I am going to try to make them with my grandkids, and who cares if they come out melted.
Allison Miller says
Awesome, Jennifer! And the melted ones ended up being the cutest anyway so it totally works out to mess them up. haha
Maureen says
These look like just the thing to have at a child’s winter birthday party.
Michelle Waller says
How cute are these!! My daughters would have a blast helping mommy make these!! I have the stuff to make these on my grocery list!
Diana Scholz says
I am obsessed, my son would get a kick out of this. Hopefully it doesn’t end up being one of those ‘nailed it’ attempts because yours look perfect!
Allison Miller says
Thanks, Diana! You’re sweet. These were a lot easier to do than I thought they would be. And it helped that I could make the mess ups just look like they’re melting! haha
Raina DelRio says
These are adorable! What a great idea to make for gifts for teachers, bus drivers even the postman!