These chocolate-dipped truffles have creamy sweet centers made with the unique flavors of Kool-Aid drink mixes! Your kids will love them!!!
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 (8 oz) package of cream cheese (softened to room temperature!)
- 3 cups of powdered sugar
- 3 cups of white chocolate chips
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 (0.16oz) packet of Kool-Aid drink mix (any flavor- see my choices below)
- 2 bags of Wiltons Candy Melts in White chocolate
or Dark chocolate
- Sprinkles, cookie crumbles or colored candy melts (I used Blue
and Red
)
Blue Raspberry Truffle
Lemon-Lime and Graham Cracker Truffle
Chocolate-covered Black Cherry Truffle
White chocolate Mango-Peach Truffle
DIRECTIONS:
- Cream together cream cheese, powdered sugar and Kool-Aid in a large mixing bowl.
- Melt white chocolate chips in the microwave in 30 second increments (stirring in between) until smooth and creamy.
- Add melted chips and vanilla to cream cheese mixture and combine until completely smooth.
- Refrigerate for at least one hour.
- Remove mixture from refrigerator and use a small cookie scoop
to make small balls of filling (I placed these on a plate and put them back in the fridge to chill while I prepared my chocolate to dip)
- Melt the Wilton’s Candy Melts in the microwave in 30 second increments until smooth and creamy.
- Dip chilled balls of filling in the melted chocolate, draining away excess and placing on parchment paper to harden (if you want pictures of how I dip things click here for a previous recipe)
- Decorate with sprinkles, cookie crumbles or drizzles of fun colored chocolate.
My thoughts: These are so much fun to make!! I just love them. I actually divided the recipe in half (and used just 1/2 of a packet of Kool-Aid) so that I could try lots of flavors and not make 4 full batches. One batch makes quite a few truffles- about 40 if you use a small cookie scoop to measure them out.
My warning???? These are SO sweet. (SOOOOOOOO sweet!) They almost make your teeth hurt they are so sweet. They are great with a cup of coffee though, and they will cure you of your sugar cravings fast!
Dipping them in chocolate is always the hard part if you haven’t done much candy making. Keeping the fillings chilled helps and (of course) practice helps. They are MUCH easier to dip than cake pops though. If you don’t want to dip them, I’d suggest chopping chocolate up fine (or cookie bits, or candy bits) and just rolling the finished truffle filling in toppings instead. Be amazing and create your own flavor combinations– I’d LOVE to hear about what you and your family create!!! Enjoy! -r
