Have you started baking your holiday cookies yet? It’s interesting to find out about other people’s holiday cookie traditions. Some people make just one type of cookie en masse each year. Some people make a variety and hand out bags of assorted cookies. Others decide to try something new each year (like these easy 3 ingredient cookies). Whatever your style, it’s great to find a super easy homemade cookie recipe that you can rely on.
In this spirit, RecipeChatter is releasing a brand new eCookbook, 15 Homemade Cookie Recipes! These cookie recipes were developed by our editorial staff. We had a lot of fun developing these cookie recipes. We even had a cookie exchange so we could try them all! My bag was devoured in about two days. Cookie Monster is my cousin.
We’re so excited to share this totally free eCookbook with you. Here’s a sample recipe for No-Bake Oreo Balls. If you’ve never tried ’em, get ready to have a new favorite cookie. These chocolate-y wonders are super easy to make and don’t take a lot of time, either. Sprinkles can add a little holiday cheer. Download our free eCookbook to have the recipe handy!
Before you zoom off to make these amazing no-bake cookies, make sure to enter our giveaway! We’re giving away an ink-and-paper cookbook to celebrate our new release of 15 Homemade Cookie Recipes.
No-Bake Oreo Balls
Yields 16 cookies
Ingredients:
- ½ bag of Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers
- 2 sleeves (30 cookies) of double-stuffed Oreo cookies
- 1/2 bar of room temperature cream cheese
- Sugar crystals/sprinkles (for topping)
Optional: Add mini York patties to center of balls.
Directions:
- Crush Oreo cookies into a crumbly mixture. An easy method is to put them in a zip lock bag and crush them with a flat object.
- Mix cream cheese and crushed Oreos in a bowl.
- When you have a sticky, fully mixed cookie dough, scoop teaspoon-sized amounts of mixture and roll them into balls with your palms. Place on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper or wax paper.
- Put cookie balls in freezer for 20 minutes.
- When the 20 minutes are almost up, melt the dipping chocolate. Follow instructions on Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers bag; you will melt the chocolate on your microwave’s defrost setting for a few minutes. Be careful not to burn the chocolate.
- When chocolate is melted, remove balls from freezer. One by one, dip balls into chocolate, rolling them to make sure they’re covered entirely.
- Sprinkle Oreo crumbs and sugar crystals/sprinkles on balls before the chocolate hardens.
- Serve and enjoy! For best results, keep refrigerated.
Bonus giveaway!
We’re giving away one copy of A Baker’s Field Guide to Christmas Cookies by Dede Wilson to one lucky winner!
How to Enter:
Just comment on this blog post with an answer to this question:
What’s your favorite kind of holiday cookie?
Official Rules:
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- Contest open to anyone 18+ in US.
Good luck!
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Easy choice – Shortbread
Pistachio thumbprints.
Snowballs! However I like them all.
Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies yum
All of them especially the ones I bake.
ALL YOUR COOKIES LOOK SO YUMMY.
mY FAVORITE IS SUBAR COOKIES
My favorite cookies are Melting Moments. A shortbread/butter cookie that is flattened with a cookie stamp and decorated with colored sugar.
My favorite kind of holiday cookie is cut-out sugar cookies, decorated with icing and all kinds of colored sprinkles, red hots, silver dragees and other cookie decorations.
That’s easy – Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
My favorite Christmas cookie is Rum balls with a cup of hot chocolate!!! Mmmmm good!!!
Lemon cookies
Must I choose?!!!
Spritz…almond flavoring instead of vanilla, decorated with colored sugar and red hots. Mmm
Norwegian Sandbakkels
Sugary, almond, butter cookies pressed into crinkly tins/molds that look like muffin/cupcake paper cups.
Cookies come out like little tart cups that reportedly can be filled with fruit or pie filling…I wouldn’t know, though… they never made it that far at our house! 😉
poppy seed icebox cookies
My favorite kind of holiday cookie is no-bake-oreo balls. They are easy and delicious.
I love your recipe choices and look forward to each new email. Thanks!
Painted cookies we made as a family . Mom would roll and cut a sort of sugar cookie with Christmas designs . The paint was water-egg yolk and food color . we would paint the trees -deer -stockings etc then she would bake them . not only great cookies , but a together Christmas tradition
My very favorite is sugar cookies that I can decorate anyway I like!
Peanut butter temptations
I love oatmeal raisin cookies, any time of the year and especially at Christmas because most of the time most bakers don’t make them then.u
I love what we called “Snowballs” – Mexican Wedding cookies. I could eat them all day.
Peanut blossoms, yum.
Oatmeal raisin drizzled with a little melted chocolate!
My favorite holiday cookie is cut out sugar cookies; however, after making the “no bake oreo balls”, it’s hard to decide which is my favorite holiday cookie.
Wedding cookies
When I was a liittle girl my Grandma made coconut cookies I loved, So I make them now for my grand and great grandchildren,
When i was a little girl my grandma would make her coconut cookies, I just loved them, Now I make them during the holidays for my grand and great grandchildren,
My favorite cookies are Thumbprint Cookies.
I am a mom that loves to bake for my family and I love to try different recipes and I love to adapt them to lighter or diabetic versions for my friends and of course to give to the less fortunate. This cookbook would most definitely help.
Peanut butter cooked in a mini muffin tin with a peanut butter cup placed in the middle when you take it out of the oven.
Anything with Oreos!
This is a hard one since I love cookies. I have adjusted a lot of cookies but I think I like the nutmeg noels. They are like a sugar cookies with nutmeg. They go great with coffee. I also love chocolate chips. There is something about a cookie when it comes out of the oven that taste so good. Yummmy.
My Aunt Marys Lady Locks….yummy
My favorite holiday cookie is a cherry wink. They have maraschino cherries, walnuts, and dates in the dough then rolled in crushed cornflakes with an additional 1/2 maraschino cherry on top for the wink. They have a crunch on the outside from the cornflakes and moist and tender on the inside from the dates and cherries.Mmmmm
My favorite Christmas cookie is the “Snowball Cookie”, or also known as “Sandies”. I can’t eat just one. I look forward to them every year!
Family recipe for Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies. Slightly sweet chic chip dough, powdered sugar and a thumbprint filled with rich chocolate. Yum
My favorite is fruit cake cookies & I don’t like fruit cake in general. But, these cookies are delish!
No-bake peanut butter cookies. What’s not to love,peanut butter, chocolate, sugar, and oats. Love any cookie with oats.
My favorite Christmas cookies are Walnut Crescents, Chocolate Chip, and Sugar Cookes.
Yummy!, Yummy!, Yummy!!!! I want to make every single one of these and put in my tummy, tummy, tummy!!!!
CRY BABIES OHHHHHHH SOOOOOOO YUMMY.
My friends and I would make rolled sugar cookies, then all our assorted kid would decorate with royal icing, colored sugar and/or sprinkles. Know those kids are doing it with their kids. So sugar cookies have a special place in my heart.
My favorite cookies have to be Italian ricotta cookies–so soft, so sweet, and so pretty when decorated with holiday sprinkles!
My favorite Christmas cookies are Peanut Butter Blossoms!
Grandma’s Gingerbreads are my fave! Lots of goodies here to try… Thanks & I’m sharing. Happy Holiday!
I love the oreo balls. It was a new cookie for me this year.
My mom’s butter cookies with sprinkles.
Cut-out cookies!