No Bake Rainbow Snowcone Chocolate Balls

I love these rainbow snowcone chocolate balls for a number of reasons. For starters, they’re perfect for a summer treat because they look like snow cones I can remember getting from the neighborhood ice cream truck. Also, because they’re small, you can have a tasty dessert without filling up on something heavy. Finally, they’re perfect to bring to a potluck. You will be amazed at all of the oohs and ahs when you set them out on the dessert table.

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Making No Bake Rainbow Snowcone Chocolate Balls

Another reason this recipe rocks? You’re using store-bought ingredients that are pretty easy to find. I got everything at either my local Walmart or Target. For example, Target sells bottles of individual sanding sugar sprinkles in all the colors I needed: blue, red, pink, green, yellow, etc. You may also see this ingredient sold as decorating sugar.

Another plus: this is a no-bake dessert recipe. That means I don’t have to turn on the oven during a hot summer day to make them or worry about using leftover heat from another baking project.

The only challenge? Bill is allergic to nuts so he couldn’t try the first batch I made, because it calls for vanilla almond bark. However, upon further investigation, I discovered that I could have purchased vanilla flavored candy coating at Walmart and used that instead. Next time around, I will.

And, while writing up this article, I realized something I’d missed: the label on the vanilla almond bark says “Make your own vanilla almond bark.” The product doesn’t actually have almond extract in it like I’d assumed. Why must manufacturers label things in such a confusing way? Poor, Bill, he could have tried these treats anyway before we took them to the 4th of July holiday potluck.

Anyway, having made these for the first time in the summer, you can bet I’ll be making them again in December. I love these colors for Christmas. And if I’m going to a Chanukah party with my family, I’ll just use blue sugar sand and white sugar sand for those holiday-appropriate colors. Also, Oreo cookies, a main ingredient in this no-bake dessert, are kosher.

Ingredients Overview

OK, here’s another reason to love this no-bake dessert: there are four ingredients, only four. Here’s an overview of them.

Step-by-step instructions

Add the Oreos to a food processor and pulse until fine crumbs form. Add to a large bowl.

Next, add the cream cheese to the bowl filled with crushed Oreos.

Using a hand beater, carefully beat until everything is mixed together and thick.

Get a large cookie tray and line with parchment paper. Roll about 2 tbsp worth of the mixture into a ball and place on the parchment paper. Repeat until you have everything rolled out. Place in the freezer for 30 minutes. Once done and are hard, remove from the freezer and set aside.

Pro tip: after you’ve measured out the first ball, place it in one of the paper medicine cups. If it goes all the way in, it’s too small. What you want is for the chocolate ball to sit halfway in and half way out.

In a large microwaveable bowl, add the almond bark.

Microwave and stir every 30 seconds. Once melted, set aside.

Add the sprinkles you have to a small bowl. So you have a blue bowl, pink bowl, purple bowl, green bowl, etc. Set them aside.

Using two forks, dip the balls into the chocolate and lightly tap the fork on the edge of the bowl and use the other fork to scrape the bottom of the fork to get all the chocolate drippings off. Slide onto the parchment paper. Repeat until everything is dipped and let harden (they take just a few seconds to dry.)

Once hard, use a paint brush (or a clean finger) to paint the chocolate around the bottom of the ball, immediately place into the paper cup and lightly press the sides to the wet chocolate. We are basically gluing the paper cup to the ball. Set aside and repeat to each ball and cup.

Once that’s dry — it’s only a few seconds — hold the cup and dip the Oreo ball back into the chocolate, making sure to dip right up to the top of the cup. Wipe the ball on the edge of the bowl all around the ball so it’s just a thin layer of chocolate, immediately dunk and swirl in the color sand sprinkle of your choice. Swirl for a few seconds to make sure it gets on there. Set aside and repeat with the other colors. If there’s little spots missing of sprinkles you can dab the chocolate on with a paint brush and dip into the sprinkles in that spot. Make sure everything is hard and dry before you serve.

Now another option is to skip some of the steps above that felt really complicated as I was typing this up as a recap. And because they were so complicated and, frankly, messy, I didn’t get any shots of those steps. Sorry!

In the future, I probably would put the cold ball in the paper cup, dip the top in the melted white chocolate and then coat with the sprinkles. I’ll bet I could get it done faster that way.