Easy Truffles

If you stocked up on the free cream cheese at King Soopers this week here is a great recipe to use some of that cream cheese on!

Easy Truffles!
You will need:
One package of Regular Oreos, or 1 1/3 packages of speciality Oreo (mint or peanut butter)
One 8 oz package of cream cheese softened (fat free CC still makes them taste great!)
6 to 8 oz of milk chocolate chips
1-2 Tablespoons of shortening
A little powdered sugar

Open all cookies and scrape the "stuff" out of the middle into a bowl, put the cookies into a different bowl. Add softened cream cheese to the "stuff" and mix well.  Take cookies and pound, grind, do whatever you have to do to get them crushed like sand.  Take a big spoonful of cookie powder and set aside.  Mix remaining crushed cookies into the "stuff" mixture, mix well.  Roll cookie mixture into 1-inch balls (if mixture is too sticky, mix a little powdered sugar in to make it less so.)  Freeze for about an hour.
While balls are freezing, melt chocolate chips in double boiler (or in a small pot set inside of a bigger one that has boiling water in it.)  Add a bit of the shortening so thin out the chocolate (I guess at this part, you will know.  If it gets too thin, add more chocolate).
Remove the balls from freezer and dip into chocolate using a toothpick (I freeze the balls so they are firmer to stay on the toothpick during dipping.) Set dipped balls on waxed paper, sprinkle with a bit of the cookie dust you set aside and put in fridge for about an hour.
Makes about 45 truffles, depending on how much of the mixture you eat during the process!