Surprising Cream Cheese Truffles

Surprising Cream Cheese Truffles 

Cheesecake meets candy in these bite size treats.

Ingredients:

• 8 ounces Cream Cheese (softened)
• 8 ounces Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (divided)
• 1/3 cup Creamy Peanut Butter 
• 1/4 cup Icing Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
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For the Toppings:

• Sprinkles
• crushed Pretzels
• Sea Salt

• crushed Cookies

• crushed Nuts

Directions:

• In a large bowl whip the cream cheese until fluffy. 

• Melt half of the chocolate in the microwave or over a double boiler. 

• Stir into the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until fully incorporated. 

• Divided the mixture into two bowls and stir peanut butter into one mixture. 

• Mix in peanut butter until well combined.  

• Press plastic wrap directly onto the surface and  chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.

• Using a small ice cream scoop or spoons, portion out truffles and place on wax paper. If mixture becomes too warm return to the fridge and chill before dipping.

• Melt the remaining chocolate and begin dipping the truffles, allowing excess chocolate to drip off and return to the wax paper. 

• Working with your toppings of choice, decorate each truffle immediately after returning to wax paper

• Allow chocolate to set before serving. 

• Truffles can be made a few days in advance and stored in an air tight container in the fridge.

Helpful Tip:
You can melt the chocolate in the microwave or double boiler.