(I Tried To Make) Oreo Chocolate Truffles

This weeks recipe (can it even be called that?) was inspired through one of my daily scrolls through Twitter, where I watched a 30 second video on how to make Oreo Truffles. I originally scrolled passed the video, until yesterday I thought, "You know, I've never made truffles before." Naturally, when I went back to find the video, it was nowhere to be found. Thinking "it can't be that hard to make" I decided to move forward with my plan.

Here's what I remember from the video:

1. Heavy Whipping Cream
2. White and Milk Chocolate
3. Oreos

Clearly this information is not enough to successfully make truffles. Regardless, here's what I did:

1. Heat up the cream (an entire pint) in the microwave for 45 seconds. Add white chocolate and heat in microwave in 30 second intervals until fully melted and combined.
2. Separate the cream from about half a package of Oreos. Crush the cookies in a plastic bag until you have fine crumbs.
3. Get really confused and microwave the cream/chocolate mixture a few more times because it isn't thick like you remember from the video.

Here's the point where my friend and I finally google (seriously, Kylie, you should have done this before you started) a recipe for Oreo Truffles. The recipe we chose was severely different from what we had already done, but we decided to call an audible in hopes of saving these truffles. Most of the other recipes we saw called for the cookie crumbs to be mixed with cream cheese to make the filling of the truffles, so we went ahead and did just that. I conveniently had almost a full container of (debatably expired) cream cheese in my fridge from when I made oatmeal.

I went ahead and added the milk chocolate to the cream mixture as well, in hopes to thicken it up and use as a dip for the truffles. Proceed to dip the cream cheese balls in the chocolate and set in the freezer for at least half an hour. I took the liberty of dipping the balls once again in the chocolate, as they were rather thinly coated and ugly.

"Meatballs and Gravy"

It's safe to say the second coat didn't help much in the aesthetics department. It also appears that the chocolate mixture is not planning on hardening like normal chocolate...

Honestly, I don't know if this is because of my lack of a kitchen, or just due to my lack of skills. My advice to you: don't make truffles in your dorm. It is entirely too messy and not worth it (at least mine). If you are feeling rather ambitious, at least use an actual recipe.

Learn from my mistakes everyone.