a little bit savoury | a whole lot sweet
I have professed my love for “cookies and cream” before when I showed you the Oreo Cookies and Cream Cupcakes, which in-turn has become the fourth most popular post on the blog.
It was time for me to try it in another format so with a can of condensed milk in the pantry waiting to be used, I decided to turn my hand to a simple four ingredient, Oreo Cookies and Cream Fudge.
As a kid growing up in Australia, there are few staple treats that appear at pretty much every school fete or birthday party you go to growing up. Fairy Bread, Coconut Ice, Frogs in a Pond, Honey Joys and the ever popular Chocolate Crackles.
Although a degree of adult supervision is required due to the hot melted Copha, chocolate crackles are usually one of the first things you learn how to make as they are really simple and can be decorated however you like with sprinkles of all shapes and sizes, mini choc chips or grated chocolate for example. For this batch I decided to mix things up a little and replace the desiccated coconut that is in the original recipe with something a little more exciting… popping candy!!!
I still have half a bottle of crème de menthe sitting in cupboard which is slowly being used up since making the Purple Corset Cake. One day the hubby came across a recipe for chocolate dipped crème de menthe marshmallows on the interweb and encouraged me to make them. I didn’t have the right amount of gelatine required in that particular recipe, so I turned to my copy of Marshmallow Madness by Shauna Sever (where the Chocolate Malt Marshmallows came from) and lo and behold there was a recipe for Crème de Menthe Marshmallows so I got to work.
On the last day of work before we shut down until after New Year, there is a morning tea. Last time around I made Marshmallow Christmas Trees and this year was going to stick with the “treat on a stick” theme and make some Oreo pops. However, they didn’t want to stay on the sticks so ended up being Oreo truffles instead, decorated like a Christmas pudding.