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    Home » Holiday » Easter

    Easter Egg Truffles

    By: Jessica · Posted: Feb 22, 2022 · Updated: May 25, 2022 · This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy.

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    Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
    Servings: 18 truffles
    Easter egg truffles in white bowl with text

    These no-bake egg truffles are adorable for Easter and are made with crushed, frosted animal cookies, cream cheese, and other easy ingredients, making them a delightful holiday dessert!

    Easter egg truffles in egg carton
    Easter Egg Truffles

    Why You’ll Love These No Bake Easter Eggs

    A “no-bake” recipe is always a favorite around here because it usually goes hand-in-hand with “easy recipes“.

    Not only is this recipe “easy” but the creaminess of the cream cheese, mixed with frosted animal cookies also make these truffles a crowd-pleaser!

    Plus, if you’re in the baking mood, you can make these alongside the mini egg bars, Easter egg nest cookies, or mini egg cookies for treats all around!

    Jump to:
    • Why You’ll Love These No Bake Easter Eggs
    • Ingredients
    • Instructions for Easter Egg Truffles
    • How to Decorate Easter Truffles
    • Expert Tip
    • Substitutions
    • Variations
    • Supplies + Quick Links
    • Storage
    • More Easter Ideas
    • Easter Egg Truffles

    Ingredients

    With only 3 main ingredients (not counting any decorating favorites) you can have truffles in no-time!

    For decorating, you can use items such as food coloring, sprinkles, sanding sugar, etc.! See more tips and ideas for decorating, below!

    ingredients on table for truffles
    Ingredients
    • 14 oz. iced animal cookies
    • 8oz. cream cheese, room temperature
    • 2 packages of 14 oz. white chocolate melting wafers (I use Ghirardelli)
    • Gel colors, if desired
    • Sprinkles or sanding sugar, if desired

    See the recipe card at the bottom of this post for full quantities and instructions, all in one place!

    Instructions for Easter Egg Truffles

    1. First, prepare a large baking sheet or something similar, like a platter, by covering it with parchment paper.
    2. Next, process animal cookies in food processor or crush cookies placing them in a ziplock bag, rolling over them with a rolling pin until they are in fine crumbs.
    Crushed frosted animal cookies in bowl
    Crushed frosted animal crackers
    1. In a large bowl, mix together the softened cream cheese and crushed cookies until evenly combined. 
    cream cheese in bowl with crushed cookies
    Mix cream cheese in with cookies
    cream cheese mixed with animal crackers
    Cream cheese mixed with cookies
    1. Grab about a tablespoon of cookie mixture and mash it together with your hands (this is securing the cookie crumbs more in to the cream cheese so it will “hold”.)
    2. Next, roll it in to a ball by cupping hands together, and gently move hands in a circle rotation until it it forms a round ball. (See first image below.)
    3. When in a ball shape, straighten out hands and roll the ball up and down between the two hands to give the “ball” more of an “egg” shape. (See second image below.)

    Also, you can also gently pinch the top of the “egg” to give it even more of an egg-shape.

    If it does not look like an egg yet, carefully mold with hands in to a shape of an egg. (More narrow at the top and the bottom.) Repeat until all the truffle dough is in the shape of eggs.

    hands rolling small amount of truffle dough in to ball
    Cup hands and roll truffle dough in to a ball
    Hands rolling dough in to an egg shape
    Roll dough between hands, back and forth to make egg shape
    1. Once the “eggs” are formed, place them all on prepared baking sheet and refrigerate for an hour.
    Cookie truffles on baking sheet
    Roll out balls and place on cookie sheet

    How to Decorate Easter Truffles

    At this point, it’s important to decide how you’ll want to decorate the Easter truffles.

    Either covered with white chocolate and then drizzled with colored chocolate, or covered in white chocolate and then coated in sanding sugar. Or, both!

    When you’ve decided how you want to decorate them, make sure to have all decorating supplies handy, and ready to go. See more below.

    Melt White Chocolate

    When it comes to which type of chocolate to use for these, I have a favorite but there are other options too!

    Which type of chocolate is best for truffles?

    If you ask me, the Ghirardelli white melting wafers are hard to beat! They melt easily but more importantly… they taste waaaaay better than other chocolate melts.

    However, you can also use white chocolate baking chips like we used in our pink strawberries, (which we prefer Ghirardelli in those too!) or you can use other candy melts, wafers, almond bark, or chips if that’s what you prefer!

    1. Make sure to follow (if any) package directions for melting chocolate. However, melting chocolate in microwave on half power for about 2 minutes (or as long as needed until melted), stopping the microwave to stir the chocolate every 30 seconds.
    white chocolate baking chips in bowl
    White chocolate chips
    melted white chocolate in bowl
    Melt white chocolate chips
    1. Remove truffles from the refrigerator and place a toothpick in to one end (top or bottom of the egg) and dip eggs in to melted chocolate and lift back out, allowing excess chocolate to drip off.
      (You’ll want to be patient with this, to allow most of the excess to drip off so it doesn’t leave a “pool” of chocolate under the egg when drying.)
    toothpick in truffle, dipping in to white chocolate
    Insert toothpick and dip truffle in to white chocolate
    Chocolate dipped Easter truffle
    Fully coat truffle in white chocolate

    Decorating with Sprinkles or Sanding Sugar

    If you’ll be decorating the eggs with sanding sugar and/or sprinkles, (as in the light blue egg in the photo below) you’ll want to decorate the eggs BEFORE the chocolate hardens.

    Sanding sugar decorated egg truffle in bowl
    Sanding sugar decorated eggs

    So once excess chocolate has dripped off, you can:

    • place eggs on cookie sheet and pour sprinkles/sanding sugar on top (the bottoms won’t be covered this way)
    • OR, to cover all of the egg with sprinkles/sanding sugar, hold the chocolate covered egg by the toothpick, over a coffee cup or bowl, and pour decorations over egg, while rotating it, trying to cover each area. Place egg on baking sheet to harden.

    Decorating with Drizzled Melted Chocolate

    If you’re wanting to leave the eggs white and decorate the eggs with different colors, you can go ahead and cover all of the eggs in white chocolate and place them on the cookie sheet to harden. (You’ll want the chocolate to harden before drizzling on the colored chocolate.)

    Once all have been coated in chocolate, place cookie sheet in fridge for 10-15 minutes.

    Decorated Easter egg truffles in bowl
    Decorated Easter egg truffles

    Expert Tip

    If you’ll be leaving the eggs white, gently, twist and remove the toothpick from the egg after dipping and smooth a little white chocolate over the toothpick hole, with the same toothpick, before the chocolate hardens. This way, it will cover the hole.

    hand holding toothpick, spreading white chocolate over hole in truffle
    Spread chocolate over hole with toothpick

    How to Make Colored White Chocolate

    When I made these eggs, I decided on the different gel colors I wanted to use. (Pink, light blue, light green and yellow.)

    So I made sure to get 4 different little bowls, that I could melt the chocolate melts in, and then drop one drop of gel coloring in to each bowl, to make the individual colors.

    Doing one color at a time, melt the chocolate, add in the gel coloring, stir and it’s ready to drizzle on the eggs you want to decorate with that color.

    After chocolate has hardened on eggs, re-melt any remaining chocolate if needed, and divide it in to small portions to add gel food coloring to to decorate the eggs.

    How to Drizzle on White Chocolate

    I used piping bags with a #3 piping tip, (bigger or smaller will work too). However, you can also drizzle it from a spoon, or even pour chocolate in to a small zip-top bag, and cut out a small hole in the corner of the bag to act as a piping bag.

    NOTE: I only had one #3 piping tip so I cleaned the tip really good after each color and re-used it to drizzle on the other colors.

    decorated easter egg truffles in white bowl
    White chocolate drizzled Easter egg truffles

    Substitutions

    Truffle Cookies: If you’re not a fan of frosted animal cookies, you can substitute those for regular animal crackers, Golden Oreos for Oreo egg truffles, or even something fun like crushed pop-tarts!

    Variations

    You can make these for any time of the year! Simply change out the colors for the holiday (think “green” and “red” for Christmas, “black” and “orange” for Halloween, etc.) and simply leave in the shape of a ball, instead of the extra step of shaping like an egg.

    Bite taken out of no bake cookie truffle
    Creamy center of cookie and cream cheese mixture

    Supplies + Quick Links

    Want to purchase most of the items I used? Here’s a quick-link section where you can find almost everything that I used:

    • gel colors
    • sanding sugar
    • Ghirardelli white chocolate wafers
    • iced animal cookies
    • similar egg cartons (packaging idea for Easter gifts)

    Storage

    If storing for later, or if you have leftovers, it’s important to refrigerate the egg truffles, due to the insides having cream cheese in them. Store in an airtight container for 3-5 days.

    More Easter Ideas

    Do you love the holidays as much as we do? Then you’ll love our other Easter inspiration! See some of our favorites, here:

    • Easter Snack Mix – Bunny Bait
    • Easter Charcuterie Board
    • Easter Bark
    • Easter Coconut Macaroon Nests
    easter egg truffles in white bowl

    Easter Egg Truffles

    Jessica Burgess
    These no-bake egg truffles are adorable for Easter and are made with crushed, frosted animal cookies, cream cheese, and other easy ingredients, making them a delightful holiday dessert!
    5 from 3 votes
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    Prep Time 20 mins
    Chill Time 1 hr
    Total Time 1 hr 20 mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 18 truffles
    Calories 154 kcal

    Equipment

    • toothpicks
    • baking sheet or platter to transfer truffles to refrigerator

    Ingredients
      

    • 14 ounces iced animal cookies
    • 8 ounces cream cheese softened
    • 28 ounces white chocolate melting wafers we used 2 packages of 14 ounces Ghirardelli White Chocolate Melting Wafers
    • gel food colors if desired
    • sanding sugars if desired
    • sprinkles if desired
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    Instructions
     

    • First, gather ingredients and prepare a large baking sheet or something similar, like a platter, by covering it with parchment paper.
      ingredients on table for truffles
    • Next, process animal cookies in food processor or crush cookies placing them in a ziplock bag, rolling over them with a rolling pin. 
      Crushed frosted animal cookies in bowl
    • In a mixing bowl, mix together the softened cream cheese and crushed cookies until evenly combined. 
      cream cheese in bowl with crushed cookies
    • Grab about a tablespoon of cookie mixture and mash it together with your hands (this is securing the cookie crumbs more in to the cream cheese so it will hold together better.)
      cream cheese mixed with animal crackers
    • Next, roll it in to a ball by cupping hands together, and gently move hands in a circle rotation until it it forms a round ball.
      hands rolling small amount of truffle dough in to ball
    • When in a ball shape, straighten out hands and roll the ball up and down between the two hands to give the “ball” more of an “egg” shape.
      Hands rolling dough in to an egg shape
    • Once the "eggs" are formed, place them all on prepared cookie sheet and refrigerate for an hour.
      Cookie truffles on baking sheet

    Melting Chocolate

    • Make sure to follow (if any) package directions for melting chocolate. However, melting chocolate in microwave on half power for about 2 minutes (or as long as needed until melted), stopping the microwave to stir the chocolate every 30 seconds is a common method and how I melted this chocolate.
      melted white chocolate in bowl
    • Remove truffles from the refrigerator and place a toothpick in to one end (top or bottom of the egg) and dip in to melted chocolate and lift back out, allowing excess chocolate to drip off.(You'll want to be patient with this, to allow most of the excess to drip off so it doesn't leave a "pool" of chocolate under the egg when drying.)
      Chocolate dipped Easter truffle

    Decorating Easter Egg Truffles

    • It's imporant to decide how you want to decorate the eggs before covering them with chocolate. If using sanding sugar or sprinkles, you'll want to decorate before the chocolate hardens. If decorating with colored melted chocolate drizzle, you can wait to decorate after the chocolate has hardened. See full post for tips on how to decorate the eggs!
      Decorated Easter egg truffles in bowl

    Notes

    How to Store Egg Truffles:
    Since they contain cream cheese, it’s important to keep the truffles refrigerated when storing and between eating.
    How to Store:
    Store truffles in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1truffle | Calories: 154kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 156mg | Potassium: 39mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 188IU | Calcium: 20mg | Iron: 1mg

    Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more.

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    Comments

    1. Allyson Zea says

      February 22, 2022 at 1:04 pm

      5 stars
      These are so fabulous! Absolutely love them!

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        February 23, 2022 at 11:04 am

        I’m so glad you liked them too Allyson! Thank you for sharing!

        Reply
    2. Agnes says

      February 22, 2022 at 1:09 pm

      These are delightful!! How I love holiday-themed food, it’s just the best. Thank you!!

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        February 23, 2022 at 11:04 am

        Thank you Agnes! That’s so sweet of you!

        Reply
    3. Cara Stokes says

      February 22, 2022 at 1:10 pm

      5 stars
      These are so fun and easy to make. Mine aren’t as pretty as yours but the kids loved them!

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        February 23, 2022 at 11:04 am

        Awww, well even if they’re not decorated or in the shape of eggs, they’re still delicious!! That’s my favorite part. Haha!

        Reply

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