Biographies and Oreo Footballs
18 Apr
My son’s 4th grade school year has been filled with book report after book report. One every month. Most of them have not been very complicated but I am flat out tired of them. Finally, this week his last book report of the school year was due. This one was on a biography and each student had to make an oral report. They were to dress like the character they read about and some type of “audio visual” was suggested. My son picked (well, I helped him… ok, I picked for him) a college football player. Me, being the cool mom that I am decided to make his audio visual edible, and I didn’t want a plain ole cookie or cupcake. (No, I can’t do anything simple). I remembered way back seeing a football “truffle” on Bakerella’s website. These were perfect. They would be simple to make, and I had everything I needed to do so. Mine weren’t shaped as football perfect, but they were great. Granted I prepared them, went to a baseball game, then came back home and finished them after 9 p.m.
My son did great on his oral report, and his classmates enjoyed their treat. They would have each had two, but we kind of snitched too many at home to do so…which meant I took more home to snitch!
Touchdown Truffles (as seen here)
Ingredients:
- 1 package Oreo cookies (originals)
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- Dipping chocolate: Milk Chocolate and White
Directions:
Finely crush the Oreos and mix with the cream cheese until well blended. Shape into 1-inch balls*. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes, then remove and shape into oval football shapes. Return to fridge until the chocolate is ready for dipping.
Melt the dipping chocolate according to the package directions and dip the balls in melted chocolate; place on waxed paper-covered baking sheet. Refrigerate 1 hour or until the chocolate has set. Melt white chocolate and pipe on as pictured. Store any leftover truffles in tightly covered container in refrigerator.
*I used my food processor to both crush the Oreo’s and to combine with the cream cheese. The Oreo Truffle recipe on the Kraft site doesn’t call for them to be refrigerated before dipping in the chocolate, but I found this to be helpful in keeping the shape and setting the chocolate.
What an awesome audiovisual. Your son is totally going to be the most popular kid at school with these mini football truffles. Way to end the last book report with a bang!
I love this idea. I can’t wait til the fall to make them for my son’s team.
how do you dip them so perfectly!
is is just wonderful. we have a big football loving household. i think ill make these for a few parties I have coming up. wonderful idea.
I started by dipping them with a couple of skewers, but that didn’t work well. I went to a couple of forks, and it was ok, but finally ended up using a large slotted spoon. If you can drain them on a wire rack it helps… you only have a couple of marks on the bottom.
These are darling! Will keep in mind for future book reports by my boy!
Those are so cute! I love your April Fools joke by the way! I had searched and searched for an idea and found nothing!! I wish I could have done that dinner one. Awesome.