Cookie Dough Truffles

Ok, so something you may not know about me.... I LOVE TRUFFLES...especially of the chocolate variety. And something else you may not know about me....I love to cook but baking, not so much. I enjoy it every once it a while but I much prefer to cook a meal than bake a cake.

My friend recently sent me the recipe for making your own cookie dough truffles. She said they were easy and her kids loved participating. Sounded tempting, so I gave it a whirl.

Easy? Check. Fun for kiddos? Check. Yummy?!?!? Check!

The original recipe came from the Food Networks Paula Deen's Show and I've linked it under my "Yum Eats" section on the sidebar. You can also click here for the recipe.

I did make some slight adjustments and have noted some other things below:

• I realized that I was 1/2 cup short of the brown sugar so I had to improvise. I use this great sight for food substitutions. So, in place of brown sugar, I used regular sugar and a bit of molasses. Voila!
  
• I went out on a limb and substituted half of the white flour with whole wheat flour. I have nothing to compare it to but the truffles were still delicious.
  
• I didn't have chocolate bark candy coating so I used Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chips instead. They melted nicely but the coating was lumpy and not as pretty as the original recipe. Plus, I had to keep stirring and stirring to keep the chocolate from burning. Regardless, they turned out tasty...just not so pretty looking. Next time I will buy the coating chocolate.
  
• I recommend making them small. I ended up making mine too big so when the chocolate covered them they were like 2 inches. Granted, I don't mind extra large truffles, but to get more bang for the buck, next time I will make them smaller.
  
• Confession...I didn't really enjoy covering the balls in chocolate. Dropping and rolling 60+ balls into chocolate to me was a bit tedious. But hey, like I said, I'm not a baker.

Overall, a keeper but next time I will be better prepared. Here are the photos I took during the process.

The cookie dough balls.

Right after the dipping process.

See the photo at the top for the final product!