Oreo Bonbons – Cookies and Cream Candy Recipe

These Oreo bonbons are a cookie and cream candy recipe that will delight your family and friends. They are a great choice for any holiday party dessert table.

What do you make when you can’t decide between a cookie and some candy? Why get the flavors of both in one dessert, of course?

This sweet confectionery treat makes a delicious Christmas bonbon, but why wait until the holidays, when you can make them anytime you like, at home?

Oreo cookies are a favorite of both kids and adults. I love to use them to make chocolate crusts for cheesecakes. (so easy!)

They can be used in all sorts of dessert recipes and today, we’ll be using the crumbs to add flavor and texture to these sweet cookie dough bonbons. (check out these recipes with Oreos.)

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Making Oreo Cookies and Cream Balls

The base of these yummy treats is butter, confectioner’s sugar and sweetened condensed milk. When you mix them all together, you get a smooth and pliable dough that can easily be shaped into balls and covered in chocolate.

Once you have your dough formed, use a rolling pin to crush some Oreo cookies until you have 2/3 cup of crumbs. I used about 10 cookies to make my crumbs.

The crumbs will be a little sticky because of the cream filling but will mix into the dough just fine.

Once your dough is thoroughly mixed, divide the dough and form it into 53 balls, one inch in size. Chill for about 15 minutes.

The Oreo bonbons are easier to dip into the chocolate if they are slightly chilled.

Melt the white chocolate over a double boiler until it is smooth. Stir well and dip the balls into the mixture.

Dipping the balls in so much easier if you use a candy dipping tool.

I have a set that has very long tines on a fork as well as a tiny basket tool that allows the excess chocolate to drip off. It is a huge time saver!

Place on racks on a baking sheet lined with a silicone mat or parchment paper.

Finishing off the Oreo bonbons

Melt the dark chocolate chips and place the melted chocolate in an icing bag. Snip off the end of the bag and drizzle the chocolate over the top of the finished bonbons.

These Oreo bonbons are very sweet.

If you don’t have so much of a sweet tooth, you can enjoy just the flavor of the inside layer, just omit the outside white chocolate coating and drizzle the plain cookie dough balls with dark chocolate.

The result is still sweet, but the dark chocolate tempers that sweetness a bit and makes it rich without adding the extra sweetness of a white chocolate coating.

Cooking Tip: How to fix seized chocolate

One of the pitfalls of melting chocolate is that the chocolate can seize and become rock hard so that you cannot use it for dipping.  

How does one go about fixing this?

First start with very dry bowls, spoons and other tools so that it doesn’t happen. Resist the urge to use the microwave instead of a double boiler to heat the chocolate, since they can be unpredictable.

If the chocolate still seizes in spite of  your best efforts, just add boiling water a teaspoon at a time and stir vigorously between each addition. The chocolate will become smooth and able to be used again.

NOTE:  This cooking tip will mean that you will dilute the chocolate, making it unusable for baked goods, but it is still fine for drizzling or coating.

Using the cookie dough for another recipe

I came up with this recipe when I was making my chocolate cherry cordials.  I made a double portion of the dough and then realized that those candies take quite some time to make.

So I divided the dough in half and thought “I wonder what they would taste like if I mixed Oreo cookie crumbs into the recipe?” And these Oreo bonbons were born!

Making both recipes means that you won’t waste that half can of condensed milk and you’ll get two sweet treats in one!

To make the cordials, instead of mixing in the crumbs, wrap the cookie dough center around a maraschino cherry. You can see how I made the chocolate covered cherries here.

Pin these Oreo bonbons for later.

Would you like a reminder of these Oreo cookies and cream balls? Just pin this image to one of your candy boards on Pinterest.

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