Oreo Cake Pop

This year, I would like to be more "relax" with all the end of the year festivities. It started from the Sinterklaas (note: It is NOT Santa Claus celebration!), our son birthday party with some of his school friends (we did it before the school vacation), the school Christmas brunch, the school Christmas market, the "traktatie" at school (birthday treat at school), the actual family celebration of our son's brithday, and Christmas celebration.


This year, I did not bring fancy food to the school Christmas brunch. It was something I bought from the shop. Only the birthday treat, I would like to present something presentable. This year, it is cake pop. The no-bake oreo cake pop. I am not a fan of sweet treat at school, but for once, I think this will make our oldest happy. Peer pressure is quite big.


It is not difficult to make, and I got some tips in dipping the cake pop into the melting candy. This is my FIRST experience with cake pop. The melting candy I bought is only from local supermarket. It works quite well.


I am not sure if the children love it, because the kindergartener here, according to me, is too fussy, too choosy and too spoiled in some ways. Believe me, many of them really talk back to adults. However, they can be very nice sometimes. It might only be a cultural difference.


Anyway, the oreo cake pop, save me the baking trouble. It took me in total around 2.5 hours to produce around 30+ cake pop, exclusive the cooling of the cake before I dipped the cake into the candy. The results? They are not very professional yet, but at least, it looks quite presentable.

The birthday boy to be? He seems happy to be able to treat his friends.
Below, you can find the recipe using around 20 pieces of oreo cookies.

Ingredients
20 pieces of oreo cookies original (with the cream)
185 gr cream cheese
melt candy or chocolate chips

cake pop sticks

Method
1. Crush the oreo cookies using food processor including the cream between the cookies
2. Add half part of the cream cheese
3. Combine the cream cheese and oreo to form a dough-like consistency. Add cream cheese when necessary to achieve dough-like consistency
4. Form the dough into small balls (I used medium size ice cream scoop to help me portioning the dough)
5. Keep the cake in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours
6. Melt the candy or chocolate as the direction on the packaging
7. Cover about 0.75 cm of the sticks with the melt candy and stick it into the cakes. Let it cool for a while
8. Cover the cake pops with the melt candy/chocolate
9. Decorate the cake pops with sprinkles or other decoration