OREO Basketball Cookies

Time30min
Makes12 servings

Ingredients

  • 12 OREO Cookies
  • 2 Tbsp. creamy peanut butter
  • 6 oz. white candy coating wafers, melted
  • 1 Tbsp. colored sugar, orange
  • 1 oz. black decorating icing

Putting it together

  1. 1.Separate cookie halves, leaving cream filling on 1 half of each cookie. Spread plain cookie halves with peanut butter, then reassemble cookies.
  2. 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. 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.

Nutritional Information

Makes 12 Servings