Just like in woodworking and home improvement projects, the right tools matter in cooking, baking, and especially food crafting. (Take it from a cheap-ass who has tried to save a buck and failed.) The right tools can make the difference between having so much fun you want to celebrate with a glass of wine and being so miserable you need a glass of wine to keep yourself from having a full-blown Clark Griswold level meltdown. I guess either way you get wine. So there’s that.

Below, I’ve got pictures, measurements, directions, and tips for you to have a pleasant truffle- making experience that yields a huge tray full of fancy looking, festive truffles everyone will love. At the end I've got a recipe card for ya.

But first, three quick things I want you to know about this recipe:

1. The title of this recipe has Oreo in quotation marks because I don’t use Oreos but “Peppermint Crème Filled Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Truffles” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, ya know? I use an awesome substitute that has less chemicals and is always in stock at my local Fry’s. It’s the Simple Truth brand and the texture and flavor are every bit as good as regular Oreos, but they have a shorter, better (although not perfect) ingredients list and don’t have that overly sweet flavor and they don’t leave me with the overwhelming urge to keep shoving them into my mouth. The recipe is otherwise your basic Oreo Truffle recipe, though.

2. The peppermint is just a little understated in this recipe. I love peppermint, but too much extract can have a funky aftertaste if you are not careful. And these got the thumbs up from people who are not wild about peppermint, so that’s sayin’ somethin’.

3. I’m not trying to be a bossy snob, but I highly recommend the Ghirardelli brand melting wafers over the cheaper candy melt options. The flavor is so much richer and the ingredient list is a lot shorter.

Peppermint Oreo Truffles

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