The recipe I am sharing with you today is honestly one of the most challenging thing I make because I dislike using melted chocolate. Besides using the melted chocolate, this is a fairly simple recipe to make because it does not take a lot of ingredients to make it. All you need is Oreos, cream cheese, and chocolate melting wafers. The melting wafers could either be milk chocolate or white chocolate. This is totally up to you, but I typically use white chocolate.

For one batch of Oreo balls, you need to first begin by crush up one package of Oreos until it is fine crumbs. You can do this by placing the Oreos in a food processor, or you can place the Oreos in a Ziploc bag and crush them by rolling a rolling pin over them. Once they are crushed, place the Oreo crumbs into a bowl, and then use a mixer to mix in the softened cream cheese. Mix until the Oreos and cream cheese are blended and can be rolled into ball form. Next, you will roll this mixture into 1-inch balls, and then place them on a cookie sheet. Once they are all of the cookie sheet, stick a toothpick in each ball. This will make it easier when you coat them in chocolate. Now, let them chill in the refrigerator for at least a couple hours.

This is where it starts to get tricky. Get five or less of the Oreo balls in refrigerator out to be covered in melted chocolate. I advise only five because they tend to soften very quick; they are harder to work with when they are soft. Melt some of the chocolate wafers in 30 second intervals until they are melted completely. I say only some because the chocolate re-hardens, and you are not able to melt it again once this happens. You will need other chocolate to melt. Finally, cover the Oreo balls in melted chocolate, and then set them back on the cookie sheet. They will harden and become perfect to eat. To make them prettier, you could save some Oreo crumbs at the beginning and sprinkle them on once they are covered in chocolate. I linked the recipe I used down below. There is also a picture of when I made them. I hope you enjoyed this recipe as much as I did!

https://bakingamoment.com/oreo-balls/

A few days before Mother’s Day, it was discussed that I was going to make a dessert for my family for that day. No one ever talked about it ever again, until the night before when I asked my mom if I was still making something. I really wanted to try out this new pie recipe that was uploaded on YouTube. My mom brushed it off until the next morning; she woke me up super early telling me to make the pies. I honestly panicked because I knew that the pies were going to take a long time because my mom wanted a regular pie crust and not a cookie pie crust.

I pulled myself out of bed, and I started to make the pie crust. I honestly hate making pie crust, so this was a challenge. I added all of the ingredients and used a fork to knead it all together. I had to let this refrigerate for an hour, so while this was happening, I started on my chocolate filling.

This was a rough process because I had to heat a chocolate bar on my stove, but I had to be sure I did not burn it. I also did not have a food thermometer, so I had to use an actual thermometer which did not go higher than 105 degrees. I had to guess the temperature of my chocolate, then let it cool. I add this melted chocolate to a mixture of powdered sugar and heavy whipping cream.

I got my pie crust out of the fridge, rolled it flat, put it in a pie pan, and then put it in the oven. Once it was cooked, I let it cool, then added the chocolate mixture, then put it in the fridge to harden for 4 hours.

I then started making the homemade whip cream. This is a super easy process. You put heavy whipping cream and vanilla extract in a bowl, and you mix until it has taken whip cream form. Once my pies chilled long enough, I topped them with this whip cream. Finally, I shaved chocolate on top of it.

My family enjoyed the pies. They were a perfect Mother’s Day treat. Down below I attached the links to the YouTube videos for the pie and crust recipes. I also attached a picture of the pies I made!

On Memorial Day this year, my parents decided to host a small get together for some members of my family. I was asked to bake something for this picnic. I wanted to create something red, white, and blue in honor of the holiday. After walking through a baking aisle of a store, I saw a large cookie pan, which gave me the idea of the baked good I made for this week.

I decided to make a large cookie cake decorated like the American Flag for my family’s get together. The recipe I used is one I found on the internet; it took me a while to find one I liked. The recipe I used for this cookie cake was from a website called Peas and Crayons. While I knew this cookie cake was going to be large, I did not realize that I was going to be using 4 1/2 sticks of butter, 3 cups of sugar, both brown and granulated, and 6 cups of flour. I baked this cookie cake on a sheet pan for 25 minutes. When it cake out of the oven, it was very thick, which surprised me.

For the icing of this cookie cake, I decided I wanted to make whipped cream frosting. I found this recipe from Food.com. I then separated the icing into three portions. I colored one portion red, another portion blue, and left one portion white. To color these icings, I used red and blue food coloring paste.

Once the icings were colored to my satisfaction, I used a knife to spread on a square of blue icing into the top left corner of the cookie cake. I then used another knife to spread red and white stripes on the cookie cake to look like the United States’ flag. I did not put the correct number of stripes as the American flag on the cookie cake, but my family got the idea of what I was trying to do. I finally filled a piping bag with white icing to pipe “stars” onto the blue corner. I did not put 50 stars on it because I could not fit them all, but I thought my first trial of an American Flag cookie cake turned out well, and by the way my family it, so did they.

The cookie cake recipe I used: https://peasandcrayons.com/2017/05/sheet-pan-cookie-cake-recipe.html

The whipped cream icing I used: https://www.food.com/recipe/whipped-cream-frosting-39013