Oreo Cake Balls

Sweeten any celebration with these irresistible Oreo Cake Balls! Vanilla cake is mixed with crushed Oreo cookies then covered in white chocolate and topped with cookies and cream sprinkles. Amaze-balls!

The Best Oreo Cake Balls Recipe

The tender cake. The Oreo cookie crunch. The sweet white chocolate coating. So much yum going on in these little bite-sized Oreo Cookie Cake Balls! I’ve been making them for years and they’re always the star of the dessert options at barbecues, baby showers and birthday parties.

Every time I make these, they’re a HUGE hit! Rave reviews. People grabbing them by the handfuls, sneaking them into their pockets as they walk out the door, and literally texting me on the their way home to get the recipe. They’re just that good!

I know a lot of people are so intimidated to make cake balls, but shouldn’t be. They’re actually pretty easy to make and the more you make them the more you realize just how easy these Oreo truffles are. So worth the little effort needed, especially when some bakeries charge like $2.50 each for Oreo cake pops. Craziness!

Oreo Cake Balls Ingredients and Supplies

(see recipe card at the bottom of this post for measurements and details)

Ingredients:

• Vanilla cake mix (baked as directed on box for a 13 x 9-inch cake) – a vanilla cake mix complements the Oreos so well, but you could use any flavor cake mix, if you’d like to switch it up. For example, a chocolate cake would add extra chocolate or a white cake would omit that extra vanilla flavor and still complement the Oreos nicely.
• Vanilla frosting – you could use regular vanilla cake frosting or a whipped vanilla frosting. You could also switch up the flavor of the frosting if you’d like. A chocolate frosting for more chocolate flavor or a white frosting for less vanilla, would work great!
• Oreo cookies – you could use regular Oreos or Double Stuf Oreos if you like that extra fondant flavor! The recipe features regular Oreo cookies, but you could switch up the cookies and replace the Oreos with Nutter Butter cookies or Chips Ahoy! cookies for a different twist.
• Vanilla candy coating or white candy melts – I use a vanilla candy coating most often, but I have used a chocolate candy coating to coat these Oreo Cake Balls and everyone loves them just as much! If you can’t find candy coating or candy melts, you could melt 2 cups white chocolate chips with 2 teaspoons of canola or coconut oil to create your own coating. The white chocolate chip coating won’t harden as well as the candy coating, but it still works nicely as a coating for the cake balls.

Supplies:

• 9 x 13-inch cake pan
• Electric mixer with paddle attachment – if you don’t have an electric mixer, you could use a hand mixer.
• Baking sheets
• Parchment paper or wax paper
• Shallow bowl

How to Make Oreo Cake Balls

• Bake cake mix according to package directions for a 9 x 13-inch cake (using additional ingredients called for on the box such as oil, water and eggs). Let cake cool completely.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, crumble in the cooled cake along with 1/4 cup frosting. Beat on medium speed until cake starts to come together.
• Add 5 Oreos (broken in half) and 5 Oreos (finely crushed). Beat on low speed until Oreos are mixed thoroughly throughout the cake mixture.
• Roll mixture into 2-tablespoon sized balls and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. You should get about 35-40 cake balls.

• Roll mixture into 2-tablespoon sized balls and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. You should get about 35-40 cake balls.
• Place baking sheet (filled with cake balls) in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or in the freezer for about 15 minutes to harden.
• Melt one package of candy melts at a time according to package directions in a shallow bowl. Cover another cookie sheet with parchment paper. Finely crush the remaining 5 Oreo cookies.
• Remove cake balls from the refrigerator (or freezer) and begin to coat them one-by-one in the melted candy coating.
• Using a fork, gently roll each cake ball in the melted candy coating trying not to touch the fork to the cake. You want there to be candy coating between the cake ball and the fork at all times to maintain a smooth coating and keep the cake ball’s round shape.

• Remove and let as much excess candy coating drip off the fork before placing on the prepared parchment-lined baking sheet.
• Immediately sprinkle each coated cake ball with some of the crushed Oreos.
• Allow cake balls to harden completely and then break off any excess candy coating that may have gathered around the bottom of the ball.

If you make these Oreo Cake Balls, be sure to snap a picture and share it with me or tag me on Instagram @thebakermama so I can see.  I love seeing how inspired and creative y’all get with the recipes I share. Enjoy!

xoxo,

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