OREO Basketball Cookies
Time30min
Makes12 servings
Ingredients
- 12 OREO Cookies
- 2 Tbsp. creamy peanut butter
- 6 oz. white candy coating wafers, melted
- 1 Tbsp. orange colored sugar
- 1 oz. black decorating icing
Putting it together
- 1.Separate cookie halves, leaving cream filling on 1 half of each cookie. Spread plain cookie halves with peanut butter, then reassemble cookies.
- 2.Cover baking sheet with waxed paper. Dip top of 1 cookie into candy coating; place, coated side up, on prepared baking sheet. Repeat with remaining cookies. Sprinkle with sugar.
- 3.Refrigerate 15 min. or until candy coating is firm. Decorate cookies with icing to resemble seams of a basketball as shown in photo.
Tips and Tricks
Variation:Prepare using orange candy coating wafers, and omitting the colored sugar.
Substitute:Prepare using almond butter.
Special Extra:Increase candy coating wafers to 8 oz. Dip cookies, 1 at a time, into melted candy coating, turning to evenly coat all sides of each cookie. Place on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with sugar, then continue as directed.
Nutrition Information
| Calories: | 150 |
| Total fat: | 8g |
| Saturated fat: | 4g |
| Trans fat: | 0g |
| Cholesterol: | 0mg |
| Sodium: | 80mg |
| Total Carbohydrate: | 19g |
| Dietary fiber: | 0g |
| Total sugars: | 15g |
| Protein: | 1g |
| Calcium: | 0% DV |
| Iron: | 2% DV |