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Sweet Cookies and Cream Halloween Cheese Ball Rat

August 3, 2010 This post may contain affiliate links.

This Sweet Cookies and Cream Halloween Cheese Ball Rat will spook everyone out but is amazingly delicious! This dessert is simple, festive, and screamingly delicious!

Oreo cookies and cream cheese ball rat

If you are looking for party food that might at first gross-out your squeamish guests, but tastes so yummy they won’t be able to resist, this is the OREO Cookie Cheese Ball Rat is for you.

  • A yummy dough made from Oreo Cookies and Philadelphia Cream Cheese creates Longtail’s body, legs, and ears.
  • His long body is rolled in crushed cookies which mimics his hair.
  • Chocolate chips become eyes and a simple cream cheese frosting is piped on to create his tail, nose, and toes.

Kids will love helping you create this adorable yet disgusting creature and will have even more fun eating it.

Halloween Cheese Ball

Ingredients:

  • 18 ounces Oreo Cookies
  • 8 ounces Philadelphia cream cheese, softened and divided
  • 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
  • pink paste or gel food coloring
  • 2 chocolate chips

Special Equipment Needed:

food processor
plastic wrap
Wilton Disposable 12 Inch Decorating Bags
Wilton Round #12 Decorating Tip
Wilton Round #3 Decorating Tip
Pastry Bag Coupler

Instructions:

crust the OREO cookies using your food processor then blend in the cream cheese

  • Pour cookies into the bowl of a food processor.
  • Pulse until the cookies are fine crumbs.
  • Remove 2/3 cup crumbs and set aside.
  • Add 7 ounces cream cheese to the food processor and pulse until the mixture is completely combined, scraping bowl as needed.

roll your cream cheese OREO cookie dough into a log

  • Reserve about 3 tablespoons of the cookie/cream cheese dough for Longtail’s legs and ears.
  • Pour the remaining dough onto a piece of plastic wrap.
  • Use the plastic wrap to help you form the dough into a long oval. Unwrap.

roll the log of cookies and cream dough in OREO cookie crumbs

  • Pour reserved cookie crumbs into a long shallow container.
  • Roll dough oval into crumbs, shaping the body as you go.
  • Place on a serving platter.

attach cookies and cream cheese ball dough to create the rat's legs and then push in two chocolate chips to create his eyes

  • Press the two chocolate chips onto either side of Longtail’s face.
  • Pinch off small amounts of the reserved dough and roll into 2 short skinny front legs and two longer wider back legs.
  • Attach to the body.
  • Pinch off two small balls of dough and flatten them into ears.
  • Attach to the head.

blend cream cheese, powdered sugar, and pink food coloring together

  • Combine the remaining 1 ounce of cream cheese with the powdered sugar and one very small drop of pink food coloring.
  • Stir until well combined.

fill a pastry bag with the pink cream cheese then fit the bag with a large round tip

  • Spoon pink cream cheese into a pastry bag fitted with a coupler and # 12 decorating tip.

pipe a pink cream cheese frosting tail, nose, and ears onto the cheese ball rat

  • Pipe a long tail onto the back of Longtail’s body.
  • Start by setting the decorating tip at Longtail’s back end.
  • Squeeze and as the frosting comes out of the tip, pull out and around the body tapering off as you go.

pipe pink cream cheese frosting toes onto the cheese ball rat

  • Pipe on a nose and pipe some pink onto each ear.
  • Remove the #12 decorating tip and replace it with a #3 tip.
  • Pipe on Longtails’ toes. Keep refrigerated for up to a week.
  • Bring to room temperature before serving.

If you don’t have any experience piping frosting you can substitute candy pieces for the tail, nose, and toes.

  • You could use strawberry Tootsie Rolls to create these parts.
  • Just soften the candy in your warm hand and cut and mold into the desired shape.
  • You can also put them in the microwave on defrost for 5 seconds.
  • Just be careful as the candy may be very hot when you remove it from the oven.

Be sure to check out all the Halloween recipes here on Hungry Happenings.SaveSave

 

Cookies and cream cheese ball rat with pink cream cheese nose, toes, and tail.

Filed Under: Halloween Recipes Tagged With: animal themed food, animal themed treats, Cheese-Balls, Chocolate, dessert, Hungry-Halloween

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Comments

  1. Noelle

    September 15, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    Do you just slice "him" up and eat it, or use it as a spread on something else?

    Reply
  2. Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    September 15, 2010 at 11:51 pm

    Hi Noelle,

    I just slice it and eat it as it has a crumb like crust. You could make cat shaped fried tortilla chips and serve them on the side. Then your guests could scoop out the rat with a cat! That would be pretty funny.

    Reply
  3. Scratching at the Window

    September 1, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    Wow, thank you Beth for posting this ratty! He's adorable and your directions are really clear. I will certainly be trying it out this Halloween season!

    Reply
  4. Erin

    October 10, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    This is soooo cool!!! Can't wait to make it and freak everyone out! Thanks!!!

    Reply
  5. Bennett Schneider

    October 30, 2012 at 11:23 pm

    Oh i wish I had seen this on the weekend! My coworker HATES mice and rats but love cakes and I would have loved to have brought this into work…. next year! mwahahahaha!

    Reply
  6. Kayce Arnold

    October 3, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    how would u make cat shaped fried tortilla chips

    Reply
  7. Kayce Arnold

    October 3, 2013 at 8:49 pm

    how would u make cat shaped fried tortilla chips

    Reply
    • beth

      October 3, 2013 at 9:19 pm

      What a fun idea! I would use a cat shaped cookie cutter to cut out flour tortilla, then I'd fry them and sprinkle on some cinnamon sugar. You could even add some cocoa powder to add some dark color to your cats. Have fun. I'd love to share a photo if you make them!

      Reply
  8. Anonymous

    October 6, 2013 at 8:15 pm

    I think I will serve graham crackers with it. It will taste like oreo balls without the coating.

    Reply
    • beth

      October 6, 2013 at 9:29 pm

      It will taste great with graham crackers. You can even cut them into cats using a cookie cutter if you want.

      Reply
  9. weebaby

    October 15, 2013 at 5:49 pm

    This is the entry that led me to your site (via Mental Floss, I think?) and I LOVE it! I had to subscribe to your RSS feed.

    Thanks for sharing all of your creative ideas with us!

    Reply
    • beth

      October 15, 2013 at 5:55 pm

      Thanks for stopping by. Thanks for subscribing. I hope you continue to enjoy my projects.

      Reply
  10. Anonymous

    October 24, 2013 at 5:38 pm

    Do we take the cream out of the center of the cookies for this? or just put the cookies in whole to make the crumbs?

    Reply
    • beth

      October 24, 2013 at 5:55 pm

      You need to use whole cookies to make the crumbs.

      Reply
  11. Suzanne Singleton

    October 26, 2013 at 8:02 pm

    I love it! Just finished mine up and he is ready for the party!

    Reply
    • beth

      October 26, 2013 at 9:18 pm

      I'd love to share a picture in my Reader's Gallery of your rat. Have a great party!

      Reply
  12. Danielle

    October 31, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    I use this base to make oreo truffles (just roll them into balls and dip in chocolate) but this is so much easier and Halloween-appropriate. I had a tough time sticking the ears to the head so i just connected them to each other and they kind of sit on top of the head. I had to add a splash of milk to the pink frosting to be able to pipe it. Thanks so much for this cute idea! Everyone at my work Halloween party loves it!

    Reply
    • beth

      October 31, 2013 at 3:16 pm

      I'm so happy to hear that you and your coworkers loved your rat. I realize looking at the picture of the ingredients that I used 1/3 less fat Cream Cheese and recently I discovered that it is more wet than regular. I was making a cheesecake and used it instead and it really changed the recipe. So, adding some milk to the pink frosting was a good idea. If you used regular cream cheese, it was probably a bit thicker. Glad it all worked in the end. If you snapped any pictures, I'd love to see them. Send them to beth@hungryhappenings.com

      Happy Halloween!

      Reply
  13. Tania

    October 25, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Amazing idea ! Just why leave it in the fridge for a week?

    Reply
  14. Tania

    October 25, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    Amazing idea ! How come it has to be refrigerated for a week?

    Reply
    • Beth

      October 25, 2015 at 11:19 pm

      It can be refrigerated for up to a week or served the day it’s made.

      Reply
  15. Cindy

    September 27, 2016 at 3:40 pm

    Is that 18 oz. of oreo cookies when they are crushed or is that the whole package?

    Reply
    • Beth

      September 28, 2016 at 9:32 am

      Crush the entire 18 ounce package of Oreo Cookies then remove 2/3 cup crumbs and set aside. That 2/3 of a cup of crumbs will be used to coat the cheese ball. The rest will get mixed with the cream cheese.

      Reply
  16. Beverly

    October 20, 2016 at 8:36 am

    About how big is this rat? I’m trying to decide what size serving platter I need. I’m thinking about bringing it to our office party this year since my home was most recently invaded by rats. However, I want to change it up a bit and buy a plastic rat trap, clean it thoroughly, make it look like the rat got caught, and use red jell icing for fake blood.

    Also, any other ideas about what to serve with it except graham crackers or tortilla chips?

    Reply
    • Beth

      October 20, 2016 at 4:46 pm

      I love that idea!!! This is about the size of a real rat. I’d say it was about 8 inches long plus the tail. Of course, you can shape it and make it any size you want so that it fits on your platter.

      You could serve it with cinnamon sugar pita chips.

      Reply
  17. Sandy

    October 24, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    Love this idea! But wondering, does it need to be refrigerated or can it sit out for a few hours? I plan on making it for a work party

    Reply
    • Beth

      October 24, 2016 at 6:05 pm

      You can let it sit out for a few hours without any problem. I served it at my Halloween party and it sat out through dinner then got cut into for dessert.

      Reply
  18. Bonnie Snow

    September 2, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    I LOVED this idea!! My nephew was promoted to sergeant at Middletown,Ohio police recently. We wanted to get together after the pinning in front of city council. I did a regular congrats cake ,however,his nickname since college was Rat (It’s a VMI thing). I found this idea and just knew I HAD to make it for him.He absolutely loved it and so did everyone else. I even had one of my co-workers ask if I could make one twice the size for her church fall gathering. Thanks again for having the perfect idea and easy directions.

    Reply
    • Beth

      September 2, 2020 at 11:34 pm

      Hi Bonnie,
      I’m so happy to hear your nephew and all the party guests enjoyed this fun dessert. I think it is hilarious that your coworker wants a rat for her church gathering. I’d love to know what she plans to do with it.

      Reply
  19. Betsy

    October 31, 2020 at 2:16 pm

    This fast, easy, and looks good! However I’m a lazy person and used a plastic baggie instead of a pastry bag. Mixed the sugar, cream cheese, and dye in a snack size baggie. Then I cut a tiny hole in the corner, pipped out the toes, then cut hole a tad bigger and did the tail, ears, and nose. Added a couple pieces of coconut as whiskers.

    Reply
    • Beth

      October 31, 2020 at 9:16 pm

      I love the idea of mixing the sugar, cream cheese, and food coloring in the snack bag. Brilliant!

      I hope you enjoy your cheese ball rat. Happy Halloween

      Reply

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