A little bit of baking

For New Year's Eve my lovely sister-in-law made Oreo Truffles. They are to die for! I called them little drops from heaven. It was a sad day when the very last one was eaten. It just so happened that we had some new neighbors move in next door at the end of December. Perfect excuse to make more. So one afternoon Ava and I worked together and made more of those delicious heavenly morsels. Here's the recipe here. (I totally didn't add the vanilla. It doesn't need it.) This was the perfect recipe to have Ava join in on because she could do almost every step.

Here is my baking princess ready to get started and probably secretly hoping to sneak a few oreos for herself. Which she was successful.

I was so excited to pull out my food processor and grind up the oreos to a fine pulp. Especially since it has only seen the inside of a box for 6 months. But sadly it died somewhere between CA and our new house. I plugged it in and nothing happened. Nothing was going to stop me from making more of those oreo yumminess, so I pulled out my meat tenderizer. Here is Ava working on her half of the oreos. Ava loved getting to smash all those oreos! The tenderizer actually worked really well and got the oreos pretty darn fine. And plus I didn't have to wash the inside of a food processor container.


We mixed the oreos and cream cheese and had ourselves a little ball rolling contest. Ava rolled about half of the balls. And I quote, "Mom, all of my circles are the perfect ones." She insisted on re-rolling a few of my balls and she even had the nerve to give me tips on how to roll my balls better. Where does she get this from? Gotta love a little self confidence.


After rolling all the balls we popped them in the fridge to cool for a half hour. Which is just enough time to watch a little bit of Toy Story 3 (Ava can't get enough of Jesse).


After dipping the balls in chocolate, putting them back in the fridge to harden, here is the final result. Total perfection in bite size. Sadly, all of the Oreo Truffles have been eaten or given away. Josh and I have actually caught ourselves looking at each other at night and both wishing that we had just a few more Oreo Truffles left.