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Cheesecake Truffles. Rich, indulgent & delicious! These truffles are easy to make using Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese and a few basic ingredients. Perfect for your holiday treat giving this year!
Tis’ the season! I absolutely love the Christmas season! Christmas baking, creating and giving brings so much joy! I think I might have just spent more time baking the past few weeks then I have cooking, cleaning or sleeping combined. Whew – talk about being all baked out!
Festive cookies, cakes, quick breads – it’s all getting gifted to and from friends, family and neighbors. I adore it all! I like to mix it up every year, keeping my Christmas goodies exciting and new and there recipients guessing.
This year I decided to do something a little different with my baking buddies. No cookies. Yup, you read that right.
This year my theme is chocolates and truffles. Indulgent, delicious and almost unexpected.
I make these Cheesecake Truffles year around and everyone loves them. I just knew they would make a fabulous and fancy Christmas gift, with a little festive dressing up.
These truffles are super easy to make. No baking involved. No confectionery mastery needed. Really, it’s just some mixing and waiting. Then some scooping and waiting. These truffles need to spend a few hours in the fridge and the freezer, so you’ll kind of go back and forth with them. This works perfectly for busy days.
You pretty much mix all the ingredients together and throw it in the fridge. After it’s chilled, you scoop out round portions and drop them onto a cookie sheet. The cheesecake filling will be sticky to work with, so I highly recommend using a cookie scoop. Then into the freezer they go to finish setting up. They need to be cold & firm enough to withstand the chocolate dunking.
I don’t bother fussing with tempering chocolate when I’m using it for candies that have to be refrigerated. You can use whatever chocolate you prefer – your favorite chopped chocolate, chocolate chips or even chocolate coating. I prefer dark or semi-sweet.
I like to decorate these truffles. I used white, red and green chocolate to drizzle and Christmas sprinkles. You can decorate however it makes you happy 🙂
Each finished truffle goes into a mini baking cup and then into a wax paper lined candy boxes to give as gifts.
These Cheesecake Truffles really do make a wonderful gift! Rich, indulgent, impressive, delicious and they’re unbelievably easy to make. That’s some sweet, win/win gift giving!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Happy Holidays & Happy Candy Making 🙂
-Amanda-
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Cream Cheese Truffles
Ingredients
- 8 oz. package Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese softened
- 4 tablespoon butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 cups powdered confectioners sugar
- 3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs approx 10 crackers
- 2 cups dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips or coating for dipping
- white chocolate red & green colored chocolate, sprinkles
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, beat together cream cheese, butter and vanilla.
- Mix in graham cracker crumbs and powdered sugar. I add the powdered sugar in 1/2 cup at a time until I reach desired consistency. 2 1/2 cups will give you a lighter & creamier filling - 3 1/2+ will give you a stiffer filling. I used 3 cups.
- Cool in fridge for an hour or two.
- After truffle center is firm enough to work with, scoop out tablespoon sized rounds and drop onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. The cheesecake filling is sticky to work with, so I recommend using a cookie scoop.
- Place cookie sheet with truffles in freezer. Allow to set up, about 2 hours.
- Melt chocolate - either by short bursts in the microwave (30 seconds, stir, 30 seconds, stir - repeat until melted) or by the bain marie method.
- Dip cheesecake centers into melted chocolate. I use two forks to dip, roll, shake and remove.
- Place chocolate coated truffle back on cookie sheet. Repeat with remainder.
- If decorating with candy sprinkles, do so before chocolate sets up. I dip and sprinkle each truffle one at a time.
- Place chocolate covered truffles in fridge until chocolate has set. This doesn't take too long.
- Set up your decorations, melt down white & colored chocolates.
- Drizzle chocolates over truffles, or decorate how you prefer.
- Place each truffle in a mini baking cup. These truffles must be refrigerated. Enjoy 🙂
Dawn @ Words Of Deliciousness
December 21, 2015 at 5:53 pmThese are perfect for the Christmas season, sound so yummy! I am with you, I think I am baked out too.
Amanda
December 22, 2015 at 5:57 pmThanks so much, Dawn! Ohhhhh….baked out is an understatement! I’m still at it, too. One more day of Christmas baking 🙂
Stephanie
December 21, 2015 at 9:51 pmThese looks delicious and the perfect gift for the holidays! I may need to make these for our Christmas dinner dessert tray. YUM! {client}
Amanda
December 22, 2015 at 5:58 pmThanks so much Stephanie! Merry Christmas!
Jan
December 23, 2015 at 7:56 amcould you use flavored cream cheese strawberry, honey nut, etc
Amanda
December 23, 2015 at 2:48 pmHi Jan! Flavored cream cheeses would be fabulous! Sometimes they aren’t as thick as the block of cream cheese, so you might have to add additional powdered sugar to get the mixture to the desired consistency. Hope this helps 🙂
Neeli @ Neeli's Unique Creations
December 23, 2015 at 11:17 amThese cheesecake truffles look and sound so good! I didn’t realize how easy it can be to make these. My daughter and I would have so much fun making these. I would give these as gifts, but they might not last long enough for me to give them away.
Amanda
December 26, 2015 at 10:08 pmThanks Neeli! I make these truffles with peanut butter too. Lol – they rarely make it out of my house either 🙂
Wendi
December 24, 2015 at 10:38 pmPerfect 🙂
Amanda
December 26, 2015 at 10:09 pmYay – that’s wonderful to hear 🙂
rasakama
December 30, 2015 at 3:37 pmThese truffles look difficult to make simply because they look so super yummy. But wow… no bake…I am so in for these little treats.
Amanda
December 30, 2015 at 11:39 pmThanks so much! I love making truffles – they look (and taste) so fancy but they’re so simple to make. Yay 🙂
kushigalu
January 21, 2016 at 12:34 amWOW! They look so perfect and delicious!
Amanda
January 21, 2016 at 10:22 pmThank you so much Kushi 🙂
deenah
July 22, 2016 at 11:23 pmthese were amazing thank you so much.
Amanda
July 23, 2016 at 11:37 pmHi Deenah! So glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Dawn @ Words Of Deliciousness
December 18, 2016 at 5:32 pmI would love to try these cheesecake truffles. They sound easy to make and sound so yummy!! I have been doing a ton of baking and candy making for the holidays too. So much fun!!
Amanda
December 18, 2016 at 11:06 pmThanks so much Dawn! I hear you – it’s nonstop baking this time of the year! After Christmas, I can’t look at a cookie for months lol.
Alicia
October 18, 2017 at 11:52 amIf you find them too sweet (i cut wayyyy back on my suagr intake this year so for me these were sweet) you can add a little cornstarch to stiffen the mix. I didnt find it tasted different or changed anything and it didnt take much of it for me to get it to where it was with the 3 cups of powdered sugar.
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However, everyone else loved them with just the original recipe! Definitly making them again!
Amanda
October 25, 2017 at 11:43 pmHi Alicia! Great advice! These definitely are LOADED with sugar – I’ll have to try substituting some cornstarch for the sugar. Thanks so much for stopping by ♥
Daniele
December 9, 2017 at 8:54 pmMaking these now, so easy and tasty. Can’t wait till they are done
Jennifer
December 14, 2017 at 6:28 amHas anyone ever tried freezing these delicious looking treats?
Jenny
July 14, 2018 at 1:09 pmHow far in advance can you make these? Can they be frozen and for bow long?
Julia
October 2, 2018 at 5:02 amCan I put them in the freezer?
Amanda
October 27, 2018 at 1:26 amHi Julia! They should store great in the freezer.