Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bonbons

These are likely the least glamorous of my "creations," nevertheless, they are quite tasty :) The title pretty much says it all - chocolate chip cookie dough (with oatmeal) covered in chocolate. It's a common mistake to think a bonbon refers to chocolate coated ice cream, but these will knock the socks off of you, even if my pictures aren't super pretty.

This recipe can be made just as easily and yumm-ily with regular chocolate chip cookie dough - I just have a personal preference for oatmeal in the mix.

Being a poor college student who was fresh out of floor and oatmeal, I did what any poor person would do and bought a Betty Crocker mix instead of replenishing my store. Sure, in the long run it would probably have been cheaper to just buy the floor and oatmeal, but I didn't. However, you can use whatever recipe, mix, or prepared cookie dough your heart desires!

To omit the raw egg aspect, I substituted the one egg that the mix called for with 3/8 cup of milk. If that math is a little too wacky for you, it's one 1/4 of a cup and a half of another 1/4 of a cup.

Ingredients:

Chocolate chip oatmeal cookie dough

Milk

Chocolate Almond Bark*

Vanilla Almond Bark*

Directions: 

Prepare cookie dough as directed on the package or in your recipe book. Omit the egg by replacing it with enough milk to keep it as moist as necessary to stay glued together, but not so much that the dough is runny.

Roll the cookie dough into small balls using a melon baller or a tablespoon. Freeze cookie dough balls in the freezer for about half an hour (they can be stacked on each other).

 

Melt two squares of chocolate almond bark in the microwave, in 30 second intervals. Dip frozen cookie dough balls in the almond bark and lay out on a piece of wax paper (they will stick to any other surface and break when you try to remove them). Drizzle with melted vanilla almond bark.

Pop them back into the freezer for a few minutes to harden them up again and they'll be ready to enjoy!

To buy all the ingredients necessary, this can cost anywhere from $3-$10. I had everything on hand, minus the cookie dough, so I got away with it for only $1.60.

* I prefer to use almond bark for dipping things, because it is thinner and spreads further than chocolate chips. One package of almond bark is more expensive than chocolate chips (by about $1), but it spreads further, drizzles more easily, and is softer to bite into :) You are, most definitely, welcome to use chocolate chips instead.