No-bake sugar cookie truffles made with only 4 ingredients! An easy and delicious treat for the holidays.
I don’t know about you, but this time of year I love making sugar cookies, truffles, fudge and just about any other treat! Now combine my love of sugar cookies and truffles to make these yummy treats!
These sugar cookies are made with crushed sugar cookies, cream cheese and vanilla. They are then dipped in white chocolate and have sprinkles added to make them festive. If you’re looking for a milk chocolate truffle, make sure to check out my cookie dough truffles and brownie truffles. You could also use a milk chocolate coating with these sugar cookie truffles, but I think the white and red coating is more fun for the holidays.
To get started you’ll want to make sure to use hard (not soft) sugar cookies. I used store bought for this post (the pepperidge farm ones) because they had the right texture, but I’ve also used homemade sugar cookies that were a few days old. You definitely don’t want burnt sugar cookies, just not fresh out of the oven cookies or they won’t crumble in the blender or food processor. 
I also love to use almond bark or melting wavers for dipping the truffles in. I used these red candy melts from Wilton to get the bright red. I don’t love melting down white chocolate chips for these… it never seems to have that super smooth consistency I’m looking for.
The trick to get the chocolate to look smooth is to 1. dip fast and 2. use a fork and tap the truffle on the edge of the bowl to remove any excess. Once I place them on the wax paper I also like to use a tooth pick to draw a circle around the truffle so it doesn’t keep the splatters. ;)
Sugar cookie truffles recipe
Sugar cookie truffles
Ingredients
- 15 sugar cookies , hard not soft
- 2-3 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate melting wafers
- Optional: sprinkles
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment or freezer paper.
- Place the cookies in a blender or food processor and blend until they have turned into fine crumbs. Add in the cream cheese and vanilla, pulse until it has combined. Using a small cookie scoop or Tablespoon scoop out the dough and roll into balls. Then place onto the baking sheet. Freeze for about 20 minutes, or until firm.
- Melt the chocolate in a microwave bowl for 1 minute. Stir until smooth and melt for an additional 15-30 seconds if needed.
- Dip the truffle balls into the chocolate using a fork. Tap the fork on the side of the bowl and then place back onto the lined baking sheet. Use a toothpick to help slide the ball off onto the pan. Add sprinkles immediately after dipping each ball.
- Place in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
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Inspired by: If You Give A Blonde A Kitchen
Enjoy!
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These sugar cooke truffles are SO good! Love how easy they are to make!
I’m not sure if this will be seen in time, as I’m planning on making these for Christmas, but how did you make them red? Assuming food coloring, but wanted to be sure.
I used the red melting wafers from Wilton, they give a much brighter red.
How many truffles does a batch make? I know the number will vary depending on the size you roll them, just trying to get an estimate.
About 12 truffles :)
Where to put the vanilla wasn’t missing it clearly says add cream cheese and vanilla into the crumb mixture, so don’t feel bad it wasn’t missing unless when you first did it the recipe left it out ,but the one I’m looking at states it, and it says 15 hard cookies 15 hard cookies count out 15 hard cookies, it didn’t say cookie dough it said 15 hard cookies, you even started hard not soft cookies. I think it’s an easy to follow recipe I will try it for the holiday season.
I made these for a cookie exchange and received lots of compliments! I just used sugar cookies from the dollar store! One note I have that they don’t really show is to knock off the excess chocolate on the balls
This recipe looks so good!-could you use vanilla wafer cookies instead of sugar cookies?
You definitely could! :)
Can these be made ahead of time and frozen?
Definitely! I would probably recommend freezing before dipping in chocolate to prevent cracking!
I know this is a year old post, but maybe someone will see this… Have you or anyone tried this with snickerdoodles instead of sugar cookies? Just curious if they’d turn out the same. Has anyone shipped these? Thinking about making them for my family in my cookie boxes to ship. Not sure how they would hold up in shipping. Thanks so much!
Hi Crystal! I think snickerdoodles would be delicious in this recipe! I would not recommend shipping them since they contain cream cheese. They need to be refrigerated.
Can these be stored for a week or two? If so, how?
You could try freezing them! :)
I had a bit of trouble making these due to the vague “15 sugar cookies.” The recipe would be much better if you gave an actual amount like…8 oz of sugar cookies. I didn’t use Pepperidge Farm so I was left to figure and finagle between my cream cheese and cookies. Additionally…where does the 1/2 tsp of vanilla come in to play?
Hi Tara! I used the whole bag of pepperidge farm sugar cookies which is 5.25 oz. Hope that helps. The vanilla is added with the cream cheese. Thanks for letting me know that was missing!