Cookie Dough Footballs

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Cookie Dough Footballs

Makes 12 Cookie Dough Footballs

*1/2 cup Butter, room temperature
*2 tablespoons Granulated Sugar
*1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons Brown Sugar
*1 tablespoon Molasses
*2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
*Pinch of Sea Salt
*1/2-3/4 cup Mini Chocolate Chips
*1/4 cup Graham Cracker crumbs
*1/4 cup ground Old Fashion Oatmeal
*2 squares Chocolate Flavored Almond Bark, melted in glass measuring cup in the microwave in 30 second intervals
*1/2 square Vanilla Flavored Almond Bark, melted

Combine In a small bowl cream together: Butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, molasses, and vanilla extract and then add flour. Slowly add the graham cracker crumbs and ground Oatmeal until it is easy to form into football shapes, use some of the Graham cracker crumbs to roll football in to help with stickiness if needed in forming footballs. Refrigerate cookie dough footballs for 2 hours before dipping.

Dip footballs in melted chocolate flavored almond bark, removing football with a fork, shaking off excess chocolate, allowing to dry on wax paper and refrigerate until set. Add the football laces.

Football Laces

Place melted Vanilla flavored almond bark into pastry bag with small hole tip or plastic bag with smaller corner cut off, pipe on football laces. Allow to set and Enjoy!

Store the cookie dough footballs in the refrigerator.

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Enjoy!

Lindy

Oreo Truffles

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Oreo Truffles

*4 to 8 ounces Cream Cheese, use just enough to keep together in a ball
*Family Size bag of Oreo Cookies, Oreo centers removed and discard
*dash of salt
*1 to 2 cups of dark or milk Ghirardelli chocolate chips (Add 1 tablespoon shortening to 1 cup of chocolate chips, melt in the microwave in glass cup with shortening in 30 second increments until melted.)

Blend in food processor Oreos until small crumbs.

In a stand mixer cream together the cream cheese and Oreo crumbs until all the cream cheese is well combined into the crumbs and cream cheese is no longer visible.

Roll Oreo mixture into teaspoon sized balls, place them onto wax paper and refrigerate for 2 hours then remove a few at a time from the fridge to dip into melted chocolate, dipping each ball individually into the melted chocolate and let dry/set on a piece of wax paper, drizzle with melted chocolate, let dry/set. Then refrigerate until ready to eat. Eat truffles within a couple of days. Great for gift for Valentines, Christmas or after dinner treat.

Note: Refrigerate truffles as soon as the chocolate is set to prevent sinking.

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Enjoy!

Jessica and Lindy