Recipe

How to Make Oreo Truffle Ice Cream Moon Cake

By Dylan Barth at University of Michigan

You haven’t really had an Oreo truffle until you’ve had it inside a cake made of ice cream and drowned in chocolate. AKA an Oreo truffle ice cream moon cake. Yeah, it’s a mouthful (pun intended), but it’s a delicious mouthful you won’t regret.

Oreo Truffle Ice Cream Moon Cake

  • Prep Time: 1 hour
  • Cook Time: 2 hours
  • Total Time: 3 hours
  • Servings: 2-3
  • Advanced
Ingredients
  • 1 pack Oreos
  • 2 cup white chocolate chips
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil
  • Vanilla ice cream
  • 1 cup digestives, crushed
  • 3 tablespoon butter, melted
  • 2 cup chocolate chips
  • Ramekin or similarly-shaped bowl

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Step 1

Place about 8 Oreos in a Ziplock bag and 8 Digestives in another and crush ’em up using anything you can find (rolling pin, a glass, wine bottle…)

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Step 2

Combine crushed Oreos and cream cheese.

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Step 3

Roll the Oreo/cream cheese mixture into small balls and place in freezer for 20 minutes.

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Step 4

After Oreo balls have hardened, microwave white chocolate chips in 20-second intervals until completed melted. Then cover the truffles with the melted chocolate. Freeze for another 20 minutes

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Step 5

Combine the crushed digestives with butter and stir until a gooey yet solid mixture has formed.

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Step 6

Cover the bottom of the ramekin with a layer of ice cream and place a truffle on top of that layer.

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Step 7

Fill the rest of the ramekin with ice cream, making sure you fill in all the space around the truffle.

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Step 8

Add a layer of the digestives mixture and freeze for 2 hours.

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Step 9

When the 2 hours are almost up, microwave the chocolate chips and coconut oil in 30-second intervals until melted.

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Step 10

Remove the moon cake from the ramekin (or whatever bowl you’re using).

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Step 11

Cover the moon cake in melted chocolate and freeze until hardened.

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Step 12

Cut through the center of the moon cake to reveal the hidden tr(easure)uffle.

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