After a bite-sized snack for Christmas Day or an upcoming Christmas party? You’ll love these Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake Balls, they look wonderfully festive displayed on a Christmas table, not very hard to make and they are uber delicious too!
We really like cheesecake so have used a full block of cream cheese but if you want the ball more of a crunchy biscuit texture you can use 1/2 – 3/4 of a block.
I placed the balls on a silicone mat on a baking tray, the choc coated balls are really easy to peel off the silicone.
I gave my eldest daughter, who helped me make these balls, a Chocolate Dipping Set for her birthday this year. It came in really handy to dip the balls mess free!
Be warned these Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake Balls get eaten up super quickly, you may want to make a double batch!!
PrintChocolate Peppermint Cheesecake Balls
- Yield: 20 balls 1x
Ingredients
- 500g Oreo biscuits
- 250g Cream Cheese, room temperature
- 1 drop Peppermint essential oil
- 250g White melting chocolate
- 5 candy canes, crushed
Instructions
- Blitz oreo’s in a food processor until finely crushed into crumbs.
- Place oreo’s, cream cheese and peppermint essential oil into a bowl and mix well to combine.
- Put mixture into the fridge for one hour, or until firm.
- Roll mixture into bite sized balls.
- Melt chocolate following packet instructions.
- Line a tray with silicone mat or baking paper (your going to make a mess).
- Dip balls entirely into chocolate to coat, place on tray.
- Stop after dipping a few balls and sprinkle with crushed candy canes. It’s best to do this before the chocolate sets otherwise the candy canes won’t stick.
- Repeating with remaining mixture.
- Place Balls in fridge until firm and ready to serve.
Notes
Store in fridge. Instead of peppermint essential oil you could use a teaspoon of peppermint extract.
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