# OREO Basketball Cookies

Source: https://www.oreo.com/recipe/oreo-basketball-cookies-249602

Servings: 12 · Total time: 30min

Want an easy dessert for the big basketball game? Rearrange OREO Cookies and turn them into peanut butter and chocolate basketballs with a little icing!

## 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

## Directions

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.

## Nutritional 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

## Tips

- Prepare using orange candy coating wafers, and omitting the colored sugar.
- Prepare using almond butter.
- 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.