This easy confection is made up of baked sugar cookies, cream cheese then covered in either white. milk or dark chocolate.
These are so simple to make and look like they came from a professional candy store and seriously addicting in flavor.
So easy that even small children can help mold them and it's a fun family in the kitchen project for any holiday or special occasion.
The cookies are baked to package instructions, cooled then made into crumbs, however, you can use your favorite pre-baked flavored cookies and make delicious no-bake truffles.
These really make great gifts around the holiday and are a nice addition to those who are cookie lovers.
The dough is so versatile because adding colorful sprinkles or molding the dough into creative shapes can be made to any theme or party function quickly.
We made these with pastel sprinkles and nonpareils for Easter then red and green for Christmas, then Patriotic for the 4th of July in red, white, and blue sprinkles then green for St. Patrick's Day.
If you create food recipes try some others we love like our Italian Easter Desserts and Fun Recipes all decadently delicious or No-Bake Buckeye Bars that are also super simple to make.
Check out our tips and suggestions and scroll to the bottom for these printable instructions.
Fun and Easy
What can be easier than making candy starting out with a sugar cookie mix or any other kind of cookie mix boxed package you like?
This super easy confection turns out to be wonderful yummy thick soft-baked cookie dough-like candy everyone thinks must have been very difficult and super fun and easy.
This cookie candy is somewhere between a soft chewy cookie and a cake pop but not as sugary since there is no frosting and cream cheese mixed in the baked cookie crumbs.
This recipe is step by step and a perfect addition to any party cookie tray we used homemade cookies but as I suggested for no-bake truffles just use any store bought as a substitution.
Ingredients You Will Need To Make These Sugar Cookie Mix Truffles(see below recipe card for measurements)
- Sugar Cookie Mix (or use store-bought around 3 1/2 cups crushed for no-bake version)
- Cream CheeseWhite, Milk, or Dark Chocolate
- Shortening
- Garnishes and Suggestions: Holiday-themed colored sprinkles or nonpareils, chopped nuts, coconut, chopped dried fruits, chopped candy bars, mini chocolate chips, orange zest, cinnamon sugar
- Optional Food Coloring for white chocolate to make it pastels or another color you prefer besides white.
Tool You Will Need:
- Cookie sheet
- Wax paper
- mixing bowl
- Microwave safe bowl
- Hand mixer
- Storage containers with covers
- Food processor
Tips:
- Bring the cream cheese to room temperature
- Only use full-fat cream cheese
- Roll them by hand and make any shapes you like
- Use colorful candy sprinkles or sugars to match the theme or the holiday or party
- Tint the white chocolate for pretty colorful candy
- Refrigerate for storing leftovers in a covered container for up to 1 week
- Other cookie mixes can be used
- Roll into balls, dip in chocolate, and use lollipop sticks for Cookie Pops
- Any coordinating sugars or sprinkles are great for baby showers, Patriotic holidays, Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, fundraisers, or birthday parties
- NEWSFLASH: if you're really in a hurry use store-bought cookies and crush them already baked! These are just an added Semi-homemade touch!
- Any pre-packaged flavored cookies (around 3 1/2 cups crushed) will make great truffles for a no-bake easy treat!
- Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. The truffles can be left out at room temperature for 2 hours.
Other Suggestions:
- Dip in melted white or milk chocolate
- Roll in colorful sprinkles
- Roll in crushed cookie crumbs
- Roll in mini chocolate chips
- Roll in any kind of crushed nuts
- Roll in coconut
- Roll in coarse colorful sugar
- Cinnamon and sugar mixture can be used on pumpkin cookie mixes
Holiday Ideas
- Tint the white chocolate to match the holiday or party
- Colorful sugars can be used
- Mold into the heart for Valentine's Day
- Mold into pumpkins for any Fall holidays IE Halloween Thanksgiving
- Use any cookie mixes you prefer
- The candy will keep fresh and delicious for up to 1 week and needs to be stored covered in the refrigerator if giving this as a gift make it fresh
- This candy can be frozen uncoated on cookie sheets and stored in bags without the coating on the outside
- Balls, footballs, eggs, hearts, or plastic molds can be made using this dough or any other shapes
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Great for Kids
A wonderful family tradition can be made with this easy recipe, my granddaughter helped me roll them and we had such a great time (of course, she ate them as she made them, Talia is 4 years old) and that's all she talked about the rest of the day.
No matter what the event, party, holiday, or just for fun in the kitchen, cookie truffles are a must-try with your favorite cookie mix.
Cookie mixes are so versatile, so when they are on sale, I stock up, however just remember if you are in a super big hurry you store-bought cookies and crush them any kinds, Oreo, Nutter Butter, Lorna Doones, Shortbread, Sugar, Coconut, the list goes on and on!
Sugar Cookie Mix Truffles
Yield: 30
Prep time: 10 min cook time: 2 min total time: 12 Min
A delicious sugar cookie mix turned into delicious dipped truffle eggs for Easter. An easy family fun cookie/ candy project that will make a wonderful tradition to look back on.
Ingredients
- 1 - 17.5 Sugar Cookie Package Mix any kind baked to package instructions along with ingredients on the cookie mix ( for no-bake: use pre-baked bakery style sugar cookies, any cookies will work with this recipe you will need 3 1/2 cups crushed cookies)
- 1 - 8 ounces package of cream cheese
- 24 ounces of White, Milk, or Dark chocolate or some of each
- 4 tablespoons shortening (2 tablespoons per 12 ounces package for melting)
- Garnish Suggestions:
- Holiday-themed colored sprinkles or nonpareils, chopped nuts, coconut, chopped dried fruits, chopped candy bars, mini chocolate chips, orange zest, cinnamon sugar
- Optional Food Coloring for white chocolate to make it pastels or another color you prefer besides white.
- IE these are great for baby showers, patriotic holidays, Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, or birthday parties.
- This cookie dough can be made into cookie pops, you will just need to insert a lollipop stick into each one
Instructions
- Bake the cookie to the package instructions.
- Cool completely.
- Place the cookies 12 at a time in the food processor to make crumbs.
- In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth.
- Stir in the crumbs.
- Mold into eggs, balls, heart-shaped, or whatever shape that fits the holiday or event.
- Place on a wax paper-lined cookie sheet.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 1-minute increments with the shortening until free-flowing.
- Use only 1 drop of food coloring if you are tinting the white chocolate and if it seizes up and gets too thick, adds a little more shortening.
- You can use a dipping tool or fork.
- Hold 1 candy on a fork over a bowl.
- Spoon the chocolate mixture over the candy to coat, tapping the fork gently until the excess coating drips back into the bowl.
- Push the truffle off the fork onto wax paper using a toothpick.
- Immediately garnish with candy decorating sprinkles.
- Repeat to coat the remaining truffles.
- Chill truffles until ready to serve and store leftovers in a covered container in the refrigerator.
- Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. The truffles can be left out at room temperature for 2 hours.
- Holiday Ideas:
- Tint the white chocolate to match the holiday or party
- Colorful sugars can be used
- Mold into the heart for Valentine's Day
- Mold into pumpkins for any Fall holidays IE Halloween Thanksgiving
- Use any cookie mixes you prefer
- The candy will keep fresh and delicious for up to 1 week and needs to be stored covered in the refrigerator if giving this as a gift make it fresh
- This candy can be frozen uncoated on cookie sheets and stored in bags without the coating on the outside
- Balls, footballs, eggs, hearts, or plastic molds can be made using this dough or any other shape
- Note: if you're in a super big hurry buy your favorite store-brand cookies and crush them in the food processor!
Calories
192.99Fat (grams)
9.96Sat. Fat (grams)
4.83Carbs (grams)
24.90Fiber (grams)
1.78Net carbs
23.12Sugar (grams)
17.69Protein (grams)
2.83Sodium (milligrams)
93.33Cholesterol (grams)
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