OREO Cookie Ball Christmas Lights

Brighten up your holiday by making these OREO Cookie Ball Christmas Lights to share with your family and friends.

Each OREO Cookie ball is shaped like a Christmas light and coated in candy melts and colored sugar so they sparkle.

Have you enjoyed the chocolatey goodness of an Oreo cookie ball before?

Oreo cookies are crushed and blended with cream cheese and rolled into balls, then are dipped in chocolate. You can quickly and easily make them plain round balls or you can have some fun and shape the cookie balls into Christmas trees, snowmen, wreaths, or these bright and colorful OREO Cookie Ball Christmas Lights.

Each of these light bulb-shaped OREO Cookie Balls has been dipped in colored confectionery coating and sprinkled with glistening colored decorator sugar.

To make them really look like Christmas Lights a silver screw base made out of chewy chocolate fudge rolls brushed with silver luster dust is attached.

You can string these Oreo Cookie Ball Christmas Lights across your dessert table along with stands of green or black licorice laces to add a festive holiday touch to your display.

Or you can package individual lights in clear cellophane bags and attach them to gifts or use them as stocking stuffers.

OREO Cookie Ball Christmas Lights Video

Watch the video below to see how you can make these Christmas cookie balls for your family. The recipe and step-by-step instructions are below.

 

OREO Cookie Balls Recipe

You will need:

• Mint Cremé OREO Cookies
• cream cheese
• candy melts in a variety of colors (red, green, blue, and yellow)
• colored sugar in the same colors as above
• chewy chocolate fudge rolls (Tootsie Rolls)
• edible silver luster dust
• toothpicks

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How to make an Oreo Cookie Ball:

1. Crush your OREO Cookies.
   • I find it easiest to crush my cookies using a food processor but if you don’t have one it’s no problem. You can place your Oreo cookies in a large zip-top bag and smash them using a rolling pin, a meat mallet, or the back of a skillet.
   • Be sure to crush the whole cookie including the filling.
2. Mix cream cheese into the cookie crumbs.
   • Be sure to set your cream cheese out at least an hour ahead in order for it to soften enough to easily blend with the cookie crumbs.
   • You can mix the cookies and cream cheese in the food processor as well. Just add the cream cheese to the food processor with the cookie crumbs and pulse until the mixture comes together in the ball.
3. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes until it feels firm.
4. Scoop out 36 tablespoons of the cookie dough mixture.
5. Roll each scoop into a ball then shape it into a light bulb shape. See the video below to see how to do this.
6. Set the cookie bulbs on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and pop that into the freezer for about 10 minutes.

1. Meanwhile, melt your confectionery coatings and pour them into a glass or jar.
   • I used red, blue, yellow, and green but any colors will work.
2. Once your light bulbs have chilled take a few of them out of the freezer and insert a toothpick into the rounded edge of each bulb.
3. Dip one of the bulbs into one color of the confectionery coating leaving a small 1/4 inch circle around the toothpick uncovered.
   • You will need to work very quickly being the cookie balls are very cold.
4. Once you’ve dipped the cookie ball light bulb remove it from the confectionery coating and allow the excess candy coating to drip off for just a second or two then hold the light bulb over a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and pour colored sugar over the entire wet surface.
   • More of the candy coating might drip off into the sugar on your pan. If you allow those little driblets to harden you will easily be able to remove them from the sugar so you can save the sugar for another use.
5. Set the dipped cookie ball Christmas light on a clean sheet of parchment paper and let air dry for at least 20 minutes.
6. Once you have dipped this set of cookie ball lights get more from the freezer and repeat the process.

NOTES:

• It’s best to keep the Cookie Balls chilled in order to be able to easily dip them. If they are too soft they will fall off the toothpick and you will lose them in your candy coating.
• As the candy coating hardens around the cookie ball mixture it will shrink. Leaving the whole up around the toothpick will allow the dough to pop out on top as the candy coating shrinks. This will keep your candy-coated cookie balls from cracking.
• Once all your cookie balls have sat at room temperature for at least 20 minutes you can use a toothpick to remove any of the Cookie Ball mixture that has poked through the hole.

How to create the screw base for each bulb:

1. Cut each chewy chocolate fudge roll in half.
2. Then use a knife to create some ridges in each piece that will allow the candies to look like threads on a screw base.
3. Use some melted candy melts to attach one of these chewy chocolate fudge roll pieces to each light bulb. You will completely cover the hole at the top have you ever light bulb.
4. Set the light bulbs aside to dry for about 10 minutes. If any of the fudge rolls pop off after that time just reattach them.
5. Brush the fudge rolls with edible silver luster dust.
   • The silver color will make your light bulbs look very realistic but you can skip this step if you’d like.

To serve your OREO Cookie Ball Christmas Lights you can string green or black licorice laces across a serving platter or your table and set the bulbs so that they look as if they’re attached to the licorice lace.

If you want you can attach the light bulbs using candy melts but in order to do so you need to arrange them on the platter exactly as you’d like and don’t plan to move them.

I personally like them unattached so that my party guests can easily pick them up without disturbing the rest of the strand.

You can use these Oreo Cookie Ball Christmas lights to decorate a cake if you have a large cake or you can make your OREO Cookie Balls a bit smaller to top a smaller cake.

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