Gingerbread Snowman Truffles

These Gingerbread Snowman Truffles are filled with cozy ginger, cinnamon, and molasses flavor and coated in snowy white chocolate. These easy bite-sized cookie balls are a no-bake melt-in-your-mouth treat that’s perfect for the winter holidays.

With minimal ingredients, you can make these delectable truffles that are a hit with kids as well as adults. They’re perfect for cookie trays, parties, and holiday food gifts. Who wouldn’t enjoy receiving a cellophane bag full of these adorable and edible snowmen?

Part craft, part dessert, and total fun, you’ll love these holiday truffles. If you have young kids, they’ll no doubt want to help decorate these festive treats, so get ready to supervise their styling skills!

Why This Recipe Works

• No special baking skills are needed
• Uses minimal ingredients
• Delivers delicious taste and visual impact
• Kid-friendly
• Easily customized

Ingredients Needed

• Cream Cheese – you’ll mix this with the cookie crumbs to form the batter for the gingerbread truffles.
• Gingersnap Or Gingerbread Cookies – make sure they’re crisp cookies, not soft since you’ll need to process them into dry crumbs. The crumbs will be mixed with the cream cheese to form the truffles.
• White Almond Bark – this forms the white candy coating that you’ll dip each gingerbread truffle in.
• Orange Gum Drops – this candy will be cut into small triangles to form a nose for each snowman.
• Twizzler Pull And Peels – this candy will be used to decorate each snowman with a scarf
• Mini Oreos – these mini cookies will become the brims of the hats for each snowman.
• Mini Reeses Cups – the candies will become the top portion of the snowman hats.
• Black Frosting – use the gel frosting so you can dot the eyes of each snowman.

How To Make Gingerbread Snowman Truffles

Step 1: Crush the gingersnap cookies. Use a food processor or put them in a Ziploc bag and use a rolling pin to crush them.

Step 2: Combine the cookie crumbs with softened cream cheese. Use an electric mixture to combine.

Step 3: Form the truffle balls.  Use a cookie scoop and roll them into balls. Set them on a parchment paper-lined tray.

Step 4: Freeze the gingerbread truffles. Place the tray in the freezer to chill the cookie balls before dipping them in the white candy coating.

Step 5: Melt the almond bark. Use the microwave to melt the bark in 30-second intervals until smooth and melted.

Step 6: Dip the gingerbread truffles. Using a spoon, add a “snow puddle” for each truffle on the parchment paper and then dip each truffle in the melted candy coating. Place the dipped truffle on one of the “puddles.” Repeat for all of the truffles.

Step 7: Let the candy-coated truffles set before decorating.

Step 8: Decorate the snowmen. (see specifics down below)

How To Dip The Gingerbread Truffles In Chocolate

I use the spoon, fork, and toothpick methods to dip truffle balls in chocolate candy coating.

1. Once the chocolate is melted and still warm, pick up each truffle with your fingers and drop it into the chocolate.
2. Use a spoon to spoon the melted candy coating over the truffle to make sure it’s completely covered.
3. Use a fork to scoop underneath the white chocolate-coated truffle and lift it out of the coating. Hold the truffle over the bowl to let any excess drip back into the bowl. You can gently tap the fork on the side of the bowl and then gently scrape the bottom of the fork on the side of the bowl to remove any remaining chocolate.
4. Use a toothpick to help push the white chocolate-covered truffle back onto the parchment paper, and in this case, onto one of the “puddles,” so that it doesn’t roll off the fork and mess up the smooth candy coating.

How To Decorate The Snowmen

Once the chocolate candy coating has set and hardened, you can decorate the snowmen.

Scarf: Give each snowman a scarf by using one of the peels from the Twizzlers. Wrap it around the base of the truffle where it meets the “puddle.” You can also use rainbow sour strips or fruit roll-ups for their scarves instead of Twizzlers.

For The Nose: Using scissors, cut the orange gumdrops into tiny triangles to use for the carrot nose. You could also dot on the noses using orange gel food coloring.

Eyes: Use black gel food coloring to dot the eyes.

Hat: Use the same black gel food coloring to help secure half of a mini Oreo to each of the snowmen’s heads. Then, add a mini Reese’s cup to the top of the cookie half to make the full hat.

Can I Use A Different Cookie Or Flavor?

Sure! I used gingersnaps. Any type of gingerbread cookies or even molasses cookies that are more on the crispy side will work.

Other great ideas are Nutter Butters, ‘Nilla Wafers, Danish Butter Cookies, Oreos, and Sugar Cookies,

Note: you want to use firm cookies rather than soft cookies since they need to be processed or crushed into fine crumbs. Soft and doughy cookies just won’t work, so look for crisp cookies.

Can I Use White Chocolate Chips Instead Of Almond Bark?

Yes,  You can also use white melting wafers. With the white chocolate chips, I like to add a little coconut oil to the melted chocolate to give it a smoother finish.

Storage

Because these gingerbread snowman truffles have cream cheese in them, store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 week.

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