Continued are Oreo Cookies Peanut Free?

peanut free girl | December 30, 2009

I was looking around for some other information and I came across the below information according to www.kraft.com regarding their peanut free products.

According to Kraft no peanut or tree nut ingredients are used in their facility. I remember mentioning in an earliar post regarding Oreo cookies that coconut may be in considered a nut in the United States.

Mocha Truffles by mistake

peanut free girl | December 23, 2009

So I made mocha truffles yesterday by accident.

By the way do not use Peanut Free Mars Bars to temper chocolate. The results are not what you are looking for. However, I would use the same process to temper chocolate for a Mars Bar since I came to have my own new Mocha Truffle recipe.

Peanut Free Chocolate Truffles with Cream Cheese Recipe

peanut free girl | December 22, 2009

So today I’m going to make another sort of truffles. These are simple chocolate truffles with cream cheese.

Ingredients:
2-1/2 pkg. (8 squares each) BAKER’S Semi-Sweet Chocolate, divided
1 pkg.  (250 g) PHILADELPHIA Brick Cream Cheese, softened
Directions
Melt the 8 chocolate squares as directed on package or read here how to melt chocolate nicely.
  1. In a medium size bowl, beat the cream cheese with a mixer until creamy.  Blend in melted chocolate.

How to Temper Chocolate

peanut free girl | December 21, 2009

I am still determined to find how get a thicker and harder chocolate coating on my truffles.

I found the following video and it is a step that needs to be taken called tempering chocolate.

This video is a really good How To video for tempering chocolate.

My Chocolate Cookie Dough Truffles

peanut free girl | December 20, 2009

So I finally tried to make the peanut free cookie dough truffles from the recipe that I posted.

You can revisit the page to the Cookie Dough Truffle recipe.