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Chocolate Covered Ice Cream Bites

These Oreo Ice Cream bites are creamy and crunchy bite-sized frozen treats that everyone loves.  Pick your favorite ice cream and toppings and make these for your next party or snack.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 30 minutes
Chill time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings 12
Calories 109kcal

Ingredients

  • 12 Oreo cookies chocolate or golden flavors
  • 1 quart Ice Cream you can use different flavors
  • 12 ounces Dark Chocolate chopped
  • ¼ cup coconut oil
  • toppings of your choice - nuts, crushed cookies, sprinkles, graham cracker crumbs

Instructions

Scooping the Ice Cream Bites

  • For this recipe, I am using 12 Oreo cookies. You can use as many Oreos as you want; make sure to have enough ice cream on hand, and enough melted chocolate.
  • Have a tray ready in the freezer to put the ice cream bites on.
  • Using a 1 tablespoon ice cream scoop, make a big scoop of ice cream and then scrape off the excess with a bench scraper or a flat knife, making sure the ice cream is packed in the scoop. You want the bottom to be flat so it sits on the Oreo.
  • Place the scoop of ice cream on an Oreo.  I usually do six at a time then place these on the tray in the freezer. Then repeat with the rest of the Oreos.
  • Freeze the ice cream bites until firm.

Chocolate Coating

  • Place the coconut oil and chopped chocolate in a small bowl and heat in the microwave at 20-second intervals, until the chocolate is melted.  Stir until the chocolate coating is smooth, then let cool.

Dipping the Ice Cream Bites in Chocolate

  • Make sure the chocolate coating is in a deep enough bowl to dip the ice cream bites.
  • Dip the ice cream bite into the chocolate coating, making sure to coat the ice cream ball and the top part of the Oreo.  This seals the ice cream and Oreo together. Let the excess drip back into the bowl.
  • Immediately after you dip the ice cream ball in the chocolate, sprinkle it with your choice of toppings.  I have found it best to sprinkle on the topping instead of dipping the ice cream bite in the topping.  
  • Place the ice cream bites back in the freezer, and freeze until firm, at least one hour.
  • Store the bites in a freezer container for up to three months.

Notes

For the chocolate. I usually have blocks of chocolate on hand, but using chocolate wafers or chocolate chips is much easier to get the chocolate melted.
Make sure to put the melted chocolate in a deep bowl to dip the ice cream ball and the top layer of the cookie.
You can make more than 12 ice cream balls because you will have some leftover chocolate.  
Be creative with these ice cream bites; choose different ice cream flavors and cookie flavors.  There are so many options for the toppings, from sprinkles, nuts, coconut, Oreo crumbs, toffee, grated chocolate, and more.
 
 
 

Nutrition

Serving: 12 | Calories: 109kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Fat: 7.8g | Cholesterol: 3mg | Sodium: 54mg