Nov 30 | Holiday Recipes, Holidays, Recipes
Gingerbread Oreo Truffles
Normally I make Oreo Truffles using regular Oreos, but this year I found Gingerbread flavoured Oreos! Of course I had to try making them into Gingerbread Oreo truffles using my regular recipe. Boy, oh boy, are they ever delicious! If these gingerbread oreos are going to be a regular holiday staple each year, I’ll be using them for truffles instead of the regular oreos! Don’t get me wrong, the other truffles are tasty too, they’re always a hit whenever I bring them to gatherings. 🙂
I thought the gingerbread flavour suited white chocolate best and I finished them off with a sprinkle of nutmeg!
How to Make Gingerbread Oreo Truffles
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 bag of Gingerbread Oreos
- 1 Block of cream cheese, softened
- 1 package white baking chocolate
- Nutmeg, sprinkles for toppings, optional
DIRECTIONS:
- Crush the Oreos into fine crumbs with a food processor or use a Ziploc bag with a rolling pin, hammer, rock… 😉
- Add the crumbs to a big bowl with the softened cream cheese. I use my Kitchenaid mixer to mix until it was all well incorporated.
- Roll the cream cheese Oreo mixtures into 1 inch balls.
- Place on a cookie sheet with waxed paper.
- Chill in the fridge for about 1 hour.
- When your truffles are almost finished chilling, start melting the chocolate slowly. (in the microwave or stove.)
- Drop one or two truffles into the melted chocolate and use a fork to remove them, letting the excess chocolate drip.
- Place them back on the waxed paper.
- Now is when you want to add the toppings, before the chocolate hardens.
- Store in the refrigerator or freezer. Enjoy!
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1
bag of Gingerbread Oreos
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1
block of cream cheese
softened
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1
package white baking chocolate
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Toppings: Nutmeg
sprinkles…
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Crush the Oreos into fine crumbs with a food processor or use a Ziploc bag with a rolling pin/hammer/rock… 🙂
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Add the crumbs to a big bowl with the softened cream cheese. I use my Kitchenaid mixer to mix until it was all well incorporated.
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Roll the cream cheese Oreo mixture into 1" balls (or whatever size you’d like) Place on a cookie sheet with waxed paper.
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Chill in the fridge for about 1 hour.
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When your truffles are almost finished chilling, start melting the chocolate slowly. (in the microwave or on the stove)
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Drop one or two truffles into the melted chocolate and use a fork to remove them, letting the excess chocolate drip. Place them back on the waxed paper.
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Now is when you want to add the toppings, before the chocolate hardens.
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Store in the refrigerator. Enjoy!
You can also freeze these!
Because I know you’ll ask, I found the Gingerbread Oreos online at Amazon.ca! Let me know where you find them!
Other holiday recipes you may enjoy:
Nov 3 | Holidays
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The Best Frugal Gift Ideas for the Foodie
Have you got a Foodie on your gift list? Here are some fabulously frugal gift ideas that are sure to help you get the perfect food related gift for them!
- Oil Spray Bottle – Avoid an oily mess with one of these oil spray bottles! No need for a bottle of Pam any more.
- Kitchen Scale – The serious foodie needs to measure their ingredients for a great tasting recipe.
- Funny Tea Towels – Perhaps your foodie has a sense of humor? 🙂
- Sea Salt Sampler Pack – Gourmet infused salts will complement the already fantastic cooking!
- Magnolia Table Volume 2 -A Collection of Recipes for gathering.
- Market Bag – This is a beautiful handmade tote perfect for the farmer’s market!
- Wood BBQ Scraper – In case you haven’t heard, wood BBQ scrapers are THE thing for BBQ’s right now. They won’t leave metal bristles in your food!
- Mini Waffle Maker – This small but mighty machine busts out some really good waffles. Also makes great hashbrowns and paninis.
- Spaghetti Pasta Measure – Forget the foodie, I think anyone that makes pasta needs one of these!
- Embossed Rolling Pin – The foodie will love to create beautiful cookies with one of these rolling pins!
- Kale & Herb Razor – This tool is a must-have in a foodie’s kitchen.
- Fruit Infusion Pitcher – This is a brilliant way to flavor water without getting all the pulp floating around!
- Silicone Baking Mat – a non-stick silicone baking mat is a must-have that replaces the need for butters, oils and parchment paper. It also helps foods and baked goods brown more evenly.
Not as budget friendly, but still awesome gift ideas for the foodie:
- Lasagna Trio Pan – Make up to three different recipes in one pan!
- Pizza Stone – These aren’t only great for pizza…cookies turn out amazing too using a pizza stone.
- Mandoline – A tool that makes slicing and Julienne(ing) way easier.
Nov 3 | Holidays
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The Best Gifts for the Coffee or Tea Lover
If you have a coffee or tea lover in your life, let me help you find the perfect gift for them! Check out the following list of frugal gift ideas for the coffee or tea lover. The perfect gift may just be a couple quick scrolls away.
- Bodum Pour Over Coffee Maker – Perfect for the person that wants a good cup of coffee, fast.
- DAVIDsTEA Top Holiday Teas – A selection of 12 popular holiday teas perfect for the tea drinker.
- Multiply Coffee – This is a locally roasted coffee and is so good!
- Drop it Like It’s Hot Mug – Add a little Snoop Dogg to your day with this sassy mug.
- Coffee Scented Candle – Have deliciously scented home with this Canadian made candle!
- You’re My Cup of Tea Towel – Something handmade, but you don’t have to make it!
- Kicking Horse Coffee – Simply Delicious coffee.
- Ceylon Black Tea – For the person that loves quality, fresh loose leaf tea.
- Espresso Thermometer – The perfect tool for the coffee aficionado
- Milk Frother – For those perfect lattes at home!
- Sloth Tea Infuser – This is the cutest tea infuser that I ever did see!
- Bodum Travel Press – Make coffee or tea on the go!
- Coffee Flavorings – A flavored syrup might be just the thing to make coffee a little more magical each day.
- If you Can Read This, Bring Coffee socks – A cute, fun gift!
- Ello Cole Travel Mug – This one has great ratings and looks great too!
- Healing Herbal Teas book – Perfect for someone that may be interested in blending their own teas.
- Silicone Tea Infusers – These are so neat! It comes with 6 in a pack, so you could separate them to make more gifts!
- Mug Warmer – Perfect for the person who prefers to drink out of a mug and not a travel mug.
Nov 3 | Holidays
Frugal Gift Ideas for Book Lovers
Have you got a book lover on your gift list? Books are always good, but these are unique ideas that any book lover would love to receive! Take a look at this list of frugal gift ideas the book lover is sure to love. $30 or Less!
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- When in Doubt, Go to the Library Socks – Well, these library socks are ridiculously awesome for the book lover!
- Get Lit T-Shirt – Perfection.
- The Book Lovers Journal – For someone that wants to remember each and every book they’ve read.
- Personal Library Kit – For the book lover that also loves to loan out their collection.
- I Love Books Tote Bag – Every Book lover needs a tote bag to carry all their books!
- Origami Leaf Book Paper Earrings – These are so cute!
- Minitaure Book Earrings – These earrings are also really great!
- Library Card Art Print – Perfect for the person who would like to decorate the walls at home too.
- Harry Potter Cauldron Soup Mug with Spoon – For the die hard Harry Potter fan!
- “Bookish” Printable Art – An easy and affordable way to add some inspiration to your space.
- Wooden Book Page Holder – This is something I never knew existed, but I could see it being very handy for the avid reader!
- Metal Leaf Bookmark – This would be such a pretty gift to give.
- “Too Many Books” Pillow Cover – I love things with quirky sayings and I’m sure someone who loves books would too!
- Shakespeare Insults poster – This would make for a great conversation piece in the home of someone who loves Shakespeare!
- Funny Mug – For the sassy book lover with a sense of humor.
Dec 18 | Household Tips, Cleaning, Holidays
Can you believe we’re one week away from Christmas day? Wow! Time sure flies when you’re having fun! (or being busy?) Since we’re one week away from Christmas, this also means we’ve reached the last week of the 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas series! I sure hope you enjoyed it. I also hope it helped you to have a more simple and manageable holiday season!
Christmas usually involves company and no one likes to show their guests a good time in a messy home. So, today, I’ve got a free printable Get Your House Holiday Ready Checklist! It includes suggestions of cleaning tasks to do each day leading up to Christmas day. There’s even plenty of room for you to add your own tasks. I kept it fairly simple, because really, who has time for crazy cleaning this time of year?
Remember, these are suggestions only! Click on the image below or here to print your holiday cleaning list.
What tasks are on your holiday cleaning list? Are you ready for Christmas?
Here are the rest of the posts in the 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas series:
Dec 11 | Holidays
Can you believe there are only two posts left in this series before Christmas day?? Crazy!
This week, we’re going to focus on tying up loose ends! (Or in other words, finish the things we skipped over 😉 )
That means we’ll:
- finish shopping for gifts
- send out those remaining Christmas cards
- bake delicious cookies
- buy as many groceries as possible for Christmas day
- finish decking the halls
- do those holiday activities that you want to do
- wrap gifts
What do you still have to finish? I’ll admit, I have to get our Christmas cards sent out still! I’m also waiting for some gifts to arrive in the mail so I haven’t started wrapping yet. But, I like to do that all in one sitting while I watch a Christmas movie! 🙂
For fun, I’m leaving you with a link to Christmas music playlists and a list of Christmas movies to watch!
If you’re looking for some Christmas music, check out Spotify for some fabulous playlists that you can listen to 24 hours a day.
Here are some Christmas movies I think you might enjoy:
- The Holiday
- Arthur Christmas
- The Bishop’s Wife
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- A Christmas Carol
- Christmas in Connecticut
- A Christmas Story
- Elf
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- The Polar Express
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Santa Buddies
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- Scrooge
- The Snowman
- Frosty the Snowman
- Frosty Returns
- Holiday Inn
- Home Alone
- Home Alone 2
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Jack Frost
- Jingle All the Way
- Love Actually
- The Santa Clause
- White Christmas
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Mickey’s Christmas Carol
- Miracle on 34th Street
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
Do you have any other Christmas movies on your ‘must watch’ list? How are you coming along in your Christmas preparations?
Here are the posts in the 8 Weeks to a Simpler Christmas series so far:
