Animal Cracker Truffles

"The first time I ever had these, I fell in love. 

And that's a pretty serious statement from a girl who is not overly dramatic and fickle in the least...

(Pause for snickers of disbelief.)"

If you're having deja vu, that's because I've already said this before.  But like I said, I'm fickle and dramatic, so I say it almost daily.  Whatever.

It's true.  I tried these and literally went, "Whoa!  How did you think of that?"  And I said it with the total righteousness of a Bill & Ted movie.  Because I'm the only one that gets my jokes.

Normally, when I try something new, I look for patterns in cooking and baking.  It's not as scientific as it sounds, but it really does seem to help me get the creative culinary juices flowing.  So, when I first tried Cookies & Cream Truffles, I started brainstorming about other truffles I could make with such relative ease.  Dissecting the truffle into a hard cookie that is pulverized and mixed with cream cheese and covered in chocolate,  I started ransacking the grocery store for more hard cookies to try and truffle-ize.  

I'm ashamed to say that among the speculoos, the thin mints and the nutter butters, I completely overlooked animal crackers.  Unforgivable.

So, I've made up for my poor judgment and made you these truffles.  In white and pink.  With sprinkles.  Forgive me?




Animal Cracker Truffles

1 package of animal cracker cookies
1 8oz. brick of Cream cheese
10 oz. of white chocolate, melted
Red food coloring
Sprinkles


Pulverize the cookies in a food processor.

Transfer to a bowl and combine with cream cheese until homogenous.

Roll 1" balls and lay them out onto a baking sheet.  Number will depend on how much bigger or smaller you make them.  Refrigerate them for 1 hour.

Dip some of the chilled balls into half of the melted white chocolate and transfer back to the baking sheet.  Drop a few drops of color into the other half of chocolate to make a pink color.  Dip the rest of the balls in the pink chocolate.

Garnish with sprinkles.
Refrigerate for 1 more hour or until ready to serve.