My love for dark cocoa butter (USA / Canada) continues to grow with awesome projects like this one. These adorable little body truffles look just like dessert, feel great on the skin, and require just 2 ingredients and the ability to melt chocolate (which I have been able to do since the age of 6 by accidentally leaving Aero bars in my pocket after Halloween, haha).
Because you need to let each layer harden before pouring the next one, these do take a bit of time, but it’s mostly down time. The final truffles make fantastic Valentine’s Day gifts (or April Fools pranks, I suppose, but it seems a shame to waste such beautiful cocoa butter (USA / Canada)).
I used a great set of silicone chocolate molds I got as a Christmas gift a few years ago for these. If you don’t have the moulds, you can use an ice cube tray instead, though the results won’t be as edible-looking.
Oreo Body Truffles
2 parts dark cocoa butter (USA / Canada)
1 part white cocoa butter (USA / Canada)Melt each of the cocoa butter (USA / Canada)s in a separate double boiler. I used glass Pyrex measuring cups to hold the cocoa butter (USA / Canada) over the boiling water to make pouring nice and easy.
Start with filling the bottom third of the molds with dark cocoa butter (USA / Canada). Let solidify.
Fill the next third of the molds with white cocoa butter (USA / Canada). Let solidify.
Top off with more dark cocoa butter (USA / Canada). Let solidify.
Remove the truffles from the mold. To use, glide them over the skin. They melt at 34°C, so keep them out of hot sun.
The amount of cocoa butter (USA / Canada) you’ll need is dependent on the size of mold you use and how many truffles you want to make. I ended up melting more than I needed and pouring the extras into little measuring cups & spoons to set up. Once it had solidified I just put my wee blobs back in the bucket with the rest of the cocoa butter (USA / Canada).
I really enjoy reading your blog and this one particularly has me intrigued. I want some dark cocoa butter, but don’t know where to find it. Can you provide a link?
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Dark cocoa butter 🙂
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OMG…I’m definitely trying these…I am so tempted to add powdered sugar though…so when I get the urge to eat them while slathering it on, I can!
Ha! I can just picture you sneaking a furtive nibble when you think nobody’s looking, lol 😛
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Those are adorable! But I have never come across dark cocoa butter – any idea where to get it? I know you listed your suppliers but didn’t see it on the NDA site.
Dark cocoa butter 🙂
Are you kidding me? These look adorable. Does cocoa butter really just glide on? I may need to make these as gifts.
Cocoa butter melts at 34°C, just a few degrees below body temperature, so it’s brilliant for the skin. Solid on your desk, liquid on your skin 🙂 I love it!
They look so edible and cute! This is so easy of a project I can’t wait to try it out, but I unfortunately don’t have any dark cocoa butter.
You can get dark cocoa butter here. Otherwise these will still work with white cocoa butter, though the “oreo” effect will obviously be lost 😛
I love this idea. Now I just have to find dark cocoa butter.
Dark cocoa butter 🙂
Oh my, these look delightful.
♡ Dulce
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Love, love, love your posts!!!
Where do you find dark cocoa butter?
Thanks, Linda! Dark cocoa butter 🙂
Love it! I noticed the dark cocoa butter while I was searching for emulsimulse at Saffire Blue, and I immediately became intrigued with it. This seems like the perfect project to get a good sample of how dark cocoa butter feels on the skin compared to other types of cocoa butter. Did the dark cocoa butter feel the same as raw cocoa butter?
The dark stuff feels almost identical to the white stuff, so you can easily swap one for the other. You should also try my chocolate lip balm!
This sounds fantastic. Now I’m in search of dark cocoa butter 🙂
Dark cocoa butter 🙂
These look great!
Thanks Anna 🙂
Where do you get Dark Cocoa Butter? Just kidding! LOL. I saw how many times you linked to it 🙂 Don’t you just love Saffire Blue? Many times when I’m looking for an ingredient that NDA doesn’t carry, I’d find it over at Saffire Blue. Theyr’e great 🙂
Question – do you make something EVERY day? I don’t know how you can make sooo many awesome things, take perfect pictures and blog about it!
Don’t get me wrong, I am eternally grateful. I look forward to your posts every weekend! It’s like my weekend treat 🙂
Hahahha yes, should have linked it in the recipe itself lol. I am so glad to have Saffire Blue as well as NDA—they overlap on most essentials, but both have a great selection of more periphery stuff. I find I prefer SB’s droppers, for instance, haha.
I don’t make something everyday, though I’ll admit I do a pretty good job of keeping up that appearance 😛 I actually work full time (more than it, even), and maintain some semblance of a social life to boot, so I tend to DIY in small binges whenever I have a Saturday or Sunday to myself. During the winter I have no choice but to work on weekends as the sun sets too early to take decent photos in the evening, so I’ll make a big to-do list ahead of time & then get up early and make 4–6ish different projects in one big day. It’s fun & awesome, but definitely doesn’t happen everyday. Spring & summer are easier with more daylight, so sometimes I’ll have an idea and do it up in the evening while the sun is still up.
Wow that’s amazing. I’d have a project, one project that I’d think about making and 2 months later still haven’t made it. So sad. I’ve had many bottles of oil expire because I couldn’t get to them quick enough.
Does this Oreo truffle feel greasy at all? These would be great as “treats” at a spa party!
Ha, yes, I have been told I am a bit of an oddity 😛 Plus, this blog is really hungry! Four entries a week requires a pretty constant amount of effort, especially if I want to take a vacation or something and get things done ahead of time.
You should take up soaping to use up those on-the-edge bottles of oil—soaping is very ingredient intense lol.
I find cocoa butter to absorb beautifully into the skin, so these beauties aren’t greasy at all. Because cocoa butter goes from solid to a thin liquid oil at 34°C (just below body temp) it’s not like shea butter—you can’t coat yourself in it 😛 And yes, they make amazing little treats! They were part of my stocking stuffers this past Christmas 🙂
Cocoa Butter truffles? Forgive me for asking, because I’m a guy, so…..
Can’t these be used for eating?
What is the benefit of sliding these on your skin?
Ha, no worries, Larry 😛 Cocoa butter is blended with sugar to make it actually taste nice, so you wouldn’t want to eat these, haha (though you will be tempted). Cocoa butter helps heal and moisturize the skin. It’s popular for preventing stretch marks, and it absorbs into the skin beautifully, leaving it soft and smooth, not greasy or sticky. It also smells awesome!
Hey Marie! Could I possibly use some unsweetened cocoa powder since I can’t access the dark cocoa butter? My cocoa butter could definetely use a fragrance boost too so I guess that could help.
Thanks! 🙂
I’d actually recommend unsweetened chocolate instead as you’ll be guaranteed a nice, smooth final product 🙂
Hello Marie! LOVE YOUR BLOG, I’M OBSESSED AND CHECK THE PAGE EVERYDAY! (Didn’t mean to sound like a creeper, just very into your recipes :)) Quick question on this recipe: Is there anything I can add to make the cocoa butter in this recipe slightly softer? I’m in Colorado, and unfortunately, it is bitter cold here, bitter dry, and all the recipes I’ve tried with cocoa butter start and end with the cocoa butter being rock solid. (Aside from your Intense Moisturizing Lip Balm, which is AWESOME-SAUCE btw :)) Thank you!!
Hi Candice! Thanks so much for reading 🙂 It sounds like we’re in similar climates—I’m up in Alberta, land of the cold and dry (-29°C windchill this morning, ugggg). Cocoa butter is an odd ingredient to try and soften up. It melts at 34°C, just a few degrees below body temperature, which is why it’s great for recipes like this one—solid at room temperature, but melts quickly on contact with the skin. If you want to combine it with anything, I’d recommend something that’s just slightly softer, specifically shea butter. Shea butter has a higher melting point (37°C), but is softer to the touch. I’d start with swapping out about 1/4 of the weight of the cocoa butter for an equal amount of shea butter and see what you think 🙂 Thanks for reading!
I was wondering how many oreo body truffles come out of this recipe? I wanted to make them for christmas for friends and family (:
Hi Hannah! Since I don’t actually specify any measurements here, just ratios, there is no way for me to tell you how many you will make—that’s totally up to you. It’ll depend on how much you define “one part” as, and how big your moulds are.
I just got some black cocoa butter wafers. I tried one straight on my skin and it did turn my skin darker. Any tips about this? I’m concerned about possibly staining clothes, plus it possibly making your hands look dirty after using it.
I’ve found that if you rub it in and don’t hugely over-apply, the dark cocoa doesn’t leave a trace—even on my pale skin! I’ve had no issues with staining or looking dirty.
So I finally did it! I actually mixed the cocoa butter with coconut oil and beeswax to give more of a lotion bar feel and I also mixed the dark cocoa butter with white so that it was a “milk” chocolate look. I used small paper baking cups from Wilton as the molds and will present them that way so it looks like a “Reeses”. The “milk” version of the dark butter doesn’t stain my skin like the dark was doing. The next step to making them more “lifelike” will be to add cocoa absolute so they *really* smell chocolatey!
https://www.facebook.com/BodyPamperingDoneWright/photos/pcb.1049789128379897/1049789081713235/?type=1&theater
I experimented even more with the “leftovers” (I made 24 and still had more so I kept going!). I kinda like how these look. 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/BodyPamperingDoneWright/photos/pcb.1049789128379897/1049789115046565/?type=1&theater
OOoh, I love it! Super cool 🙂 They’re adorable! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂