College Football Saturday Tailgate: Football Oreo Truffle Pops {Husker Style, of course!}

Wow! Last Sat­ur­day was quite a day! It was a BIG game for Nebraska fans–the first Big 10 match-up in Lin­coln, against none other but Ohio State. Huge! Com­ing off the loss we had the week before, we were ner­vous, but excited for the big game. We were doing a bit of a home­gat­ing party at our good friends’ (from col­lege at Nebraska) and I knew I wanted to bring over some­thing fun! Last sea­son, I made foot­ball cake pops for a big game and a whole cup­cake dis­play. Loved it!

But, I didn’t have quite as much time and had extra oreos on hand from mak­ing the Hal­loween oreo pops, so I decided to try some foot­ball oreo truf­fles!! They turned out pretty well! And, thank­fully the game did too! We started play­ing well, every­thing was look­ing good and then we fell behind 21 points. NOT.GOOD. The mood in the house was turn­ing somber, some were talk­ing about going home. Then in the 3rd quar­ter, we snagged a turnover and things started look­ing up. We ended up scor­ing 28 unan­swered points to win the game. Biggest come­back in school his­tory!! Go Big Red!!!

I’ve made oreo truf­fles a few times before, so all the step by step direc­tions can be found there. The ingre­di­ents are minimal–oreos, cream cheese, and bark or candy melts (choco­late and white).

Once I had the oreo truf­fle mix­ture all creamed together, I shaped small amounts into foot­ball shapes. The mix­ture soft­ens quickly (because of the cream cheese), so once I had the foot­balls made, they went into the fridge for a bit. Then, comes the choco­late dip­ping. With the melted choco­late, I started by dip­ping the end of the stick in the choco­late & then insert­ing it into the truf­fle. This helps with sta­bil­ity a bit–here’s what the process looks like from when I made cake pops.

Once you have all your sticks in place (you may need to put them back into the fridge for a bit), coat all the foot­balls in the choco­late. Once they were dipped, I stuck  them in a brick of sty­ro­foam to harden. Once hard, I used melted white choco­late to pipe on the laces. To make it look more dec­o­ra­tive, the sty­ro­foam brick was cov­ered in a cut piece of a black plas­tic table cloth (the sticks poke right through). Then, I had some extra Nebraska fab­ric (the same kind I used on the wreath) that I wrapped around the base. And, then, I wound some black rib­bon around the sticks and tied on a foot­ball rib­bon for good mea­sure! A fun project for a VERY mem­o­rable game!

Now, it’s YOUR turn! It’s week 5 of the Col­lege Foot­ball Sat­ur­day Tail­gate link party and I want you to link up!

Col­lege Foot­ball Sat­ur­day Tail­gate Link Party