Cauldron Oreo Truffles
These Cauldron Oreo truffles are the perfect treat for All Hallows Eve. With their cauldron-shaped, green and purple centers, black chocolate coating, and green chocolate topping. These truffles are a delicious little witches brew perfect for your ghoulish family and friends.
There are some people out there who live for the gore and guts of Halloween, but we much prefer the cuter, more tame side. This time of year, we like to serve tasty Halloween-themed treats like these cauldrons because they have a classic look, and they’re perfect for friends and family members of any age.
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Basic Ingredients: it only takes a handful of items to make these cute, delicious Oreo balls.
- Easy to Make: Like most other Oreo truffles, this is easy with just a few simple steps.
- Delicious: These cauldrons are rich, sweet, and tangy. The perfect Halloween treats.
- Perfect for Parties: Their fun shape makes them the perfect treat for any Halloween gathering.
🛒Ingredients
You’ll only need a handful of basic ingredients to make these easy Cauldron Oreo truffles. We’ve listed them all here, but you can find their exact amounts in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Vanilla Oreos – crushed
- Cream cheese – softened
- Green and purple food coloring
- Black candy melts
- Light green candy melts
- Green pearl sprinkles
- Candy eyes and Halloween sprinkles
🔪 How to Make Cauldron Oreo Truffles
Making these truffles is very easy. It just takes a little mixing, dipping, and chilling. That’s all there is to it!
Step 1: Make the Truffle Filling
Mix the cookie crumbs and cream cheese with an electric mixer until combined and smooth. Then, divide the mixture between two bowls, adding green food coloring to one bowl and purple food coloring to another and mixing.
Step 2: Roll
Take a teaspoon of each filling color and roll them into one ball, gently swirling the colors. Take about 1/2 teaspoon of filling and roll it into another ball. Then, flatten it and add it to the top of the first ball to create the cauldron shape.
Step 3: Chill
Repeat the rolling process, making as many cauldrons as possible and placing them on a parchment paper-lined tray. Then, chill the truffles in the freezer for at least an hour.
Step 4: Melt and Dip
Melt the black candy melts over a double boiler or in the microwave at 30-second intervals. Then, carefully dip each cauldron in the melted black candy and place them on the same tray to set.
Step 5: Top
Melt the green candy melts the same way as the black, then add the candy to a plastic baggie and snip off the corner. Pipe the green candy on top of the cauldron, making sure to leave some dripping down the edges. Immediately top the melted green chocolate with green candy pearls.
Step 6: Decorate
Finish decorating the cauldrons with candy eyes or Halloween sprinkles for a final touch.
Step 7: Chill Again
Chill the truffles in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before serving.
📝Variations
- Oreos: You can use your favorite flavor of Oreos for this recipe. They’ll all work.
- Colors: Change the food coloring used to match other holidays.
- Sprinkles: Your favorite Halloween or fall-themed sprinkles are perfect for these truffles.
If you think these cauldron truffles are cute, then try our Oreo bat truffles this Halloween season.
🥄 Equipment
- Measuring cup
- Mixing bowls
- Electric mixer
- Cookie sheet or large tray
- Parchment paper
🥫 Storage
Refrigerate these cauldrons for up to 3 days in an air-tight container. For longer storage, freeze them for up to a month in an air-tight, freezer-safe container.
What to Serve with Cauldron Oreo Truffles
Serve these truffles alongside your other favorite Halloween treats. Cookies, bars, brownies, sweet snack mixes, and the like all work incredibly well.
💭 Tips
- Freeze your truffles for at least an hour to ensure they’re thoroughly chilled and hardened before being dipped into the warm candy coating.
- Place the truffles on a fork and dip them into the chocolate. This allows the excess to drip off between the tines for the perfect coating.
- Chill the finished truffles for at least an hour in the refrigerator to ensure the coating is fully set and the truffles are chilled all the way through.
⁉️ FAQ
Truffles are a sweet confection made with cake or crushed sandwich cookies mixed with cream cheese and then coated with a candy or chocolate shell.
Place your truffle on a fork and then dip it carefully in your melted coating. Using a fork allows you to let the excess coating drip off for an even look.
Oreo cookies should be crushed very finely to make Oreo balls. Finely crushing them allows them to meld more easily with the cream cheese and creates a smother center.
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🧾Recipe Card
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Cauldron Oreo Truffles
Equipment
- large mixing bowl
- Hand mixer
- Parchment Lined Baking Sheet
- microwave safe bowls
Ingredients
- 14.3 ounces vanilla sandwich cookies crushed
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- Green and purple food coloring
- 12 ounces black candy melts
- 1 cup light green candy melts
- Green pearl sprinkles
- Candy eyes and halloween sprinkles optional
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine your cookie crumbs and cream cheese.
- Use an electric hand mixer to combine them into a smooth mixture.
- Divide the filling into 2 bowls.
- Dye one bowl green and one purple.
- Take a teaspoon of each color and roll into a ball gently swirling the colors.
- Take about ½ teaspoon of the filling and roll into a ball and flatten.
- Place this on top of the ball you already made to create the top of the cauldron.
- Place on a parchment lined tray.
- Place in the freezer for 1 hour up to overnight.
- Melt your black candy melts either in a double boiler or in a microwave safe bowl in 30 second intervals until melted and smooth.
- Carefully dip each cauldron in the black chocolate and set on the parchment paper lined tray to set.
- Melt the green candy melts the same way and place into a ziploc bag and snip off the corner.
- Pipe the green on the top of the cauldron and make it drip a bit off the edge.
- Immediately sprinkle on the green candy pearls to look like bubbles.
- Add candy eyes or other Halloween sprinkles if you like.
- Set aside to set up.
- Serve!
Notes
Disclaimer
Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.
