Biscoff Bourbon Cookie Dough Truffles


I know it’s a little early to be thinking about Father’s Day, but I was playing around with a recipe and it came out so good that I wanted to share. Last year I made some Biscoff Bourbon Bacon Chocolate Chunk Cookies and they came out delicious. I wanted to try the Biscoff and bourbon combo again, so I made these Biscoff Bourbon Cookie Dough Truffles and covered them in dark chocolate with a little bit of sea salt on top. This was a good use of bourbon.

I used Jim Beam bourbon for these truffles, but feel free to use your favorite bourbon. The meringue powder is the egg replacement for the no bake cookie dough. You can find it where they sell Wilton products like Walmart or Michaels.

I am still using a mini scoop to make the balls, it’s faster and easier than rolling them. And makes the truffles bite sized.

I chose dark chocolate for the coating, but you can do semi-sweet chocolate if you prefer. Either one will go well with the sea salt. I had some extra coarse sea salt that I crushed with a rolling pin to make the pieces a bit smaller. It worked out good.

The Biscoff smooths out the bourbon. The dark chocolate and the sea salt compliment the cookie dough. I think dad’s out there would love these bourbon flavored Biscoff cookie dough truffles. There is definitely a punch of alcohol in them, but the sweetness of the other flavors balances it our perfectly. My husband and his buddy loved them. And even my lady friends loved them. Just keep them away from the kids.
Biscoff Bourbon Cookie Dough Truffles
by The Sweet Chick
Prep Time: 1.5h w/freezer time
Keywords: freeze refrigerate no bake dessert snack bourbon whiskey chocolate chips dark chocolate Father’s Day truffles American
Ingredients (28 truffles)
For the cookie dough
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/8 cup granulated sugar
- 1/8 cup Biscoff cookie spread
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon meringue powder
- 2 tablespoons bourbon whiskey
- 3/4 cups + 2 tablespoon all purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
For the coating
- 1 cup Ghirardelli 60% Cocoa baking chips
Optional topping
- coarse sea salt
Instructions
For the cookie dough
In a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugars. Then add the cookie spread and vanilla, mix on low until well blended.
Add the merinque powder and bourbon to the mixer bowl and mix well.
Next, add the flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix on low until dough starts to form.
Last, add the chocolate chips and mix until all incorporated.
With a mini scoop, measure out 28 mounds and place them on a wax paper lined air-tight container.
Place the container in the freezer for at least 1 hour to set. (I left mine overnight.)
For the coating
Place chocolate chips in a microwave safe container and melt for 30 seconds at a time, stirring in between, until all chocolate is melted and smooth.
Remove chilled dough from freezer and dip the mounds, one at a time, into the melted chocolate until all covered. (I use a fork.)
Once covered, remove and softly tap until excess chocolate falls off. Then place the truffles on wax paper until the coating hardens. (If you are in a hurry, just pop them in the fridge for a few minutes.)
Optional topping
If you are adding some sea salt, add it before the chocolate sets.
Notes
These truffles don’t require refrigeration, but I kept mine in the fridge anyway. Do keep them in an airtight container.
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Honey Cupcakes With Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

Saturday afternoon had me knee-deep in frosting. There was frosting in the sink, on the floor, in my fingernails. My hands smelled like butter, which, if you know me, is akin to having butter-smelling perfume sprayed directly into my nose. Or worse, cologne. Like a really obnoxious-smelling cologne. I have a sensitive sense of smell.
For my friend’s birthday, I’d originally intended to make lavender frosting because lavender is her favorite flavor ever, which is why I made honey-flavored cupcakes. Honey and lavender—they seem a fine pair, don’t they? But, me being me, I didn’t begin looking for the lavender until the last minute, the morning of her party in fact, which is how I ended up with a botched Swiss meringue buttercream frosting hanging stickily in pots and pans all around the kitchen: lavender was nowhere to be found, at least in my immediate vicinity, so I switched to the buttercream, and subsequently flubbed it. I’m not an experienced frosting maker, if you can’t tell.

So I guess you could call the creation of the lemon cream cheese frosting a metaphorical throwing in of the towel. I mean, I did throw a dish towel at the counter in disgust after the buttercream underperformed (fine, I underperformed), and even contemplated showing up at my friend’s place with unfrosted cupcakes. But just like bestowing a cake upon a friend with a slice cut out for the sake of my food blog would be a violation of a basic human right, showing up with plain cupcakes would be, well, just plain pathetic.
That is how I ended up with a lemon zest-spiked cream cheese frosting. I was happy with my decision in the end. It may have been a safe and easy choice, but it was SO good. And I don’t even like lemon.

Unfortunately, the honey cupcakes turned out kind of dry. I might try swapping out the butter for canola oil if I ever make them again. But a delicious, complementary frosting is usually compensation enough, no? And I do believe that honey and lemon work wonderfully together.
I’ll have to practice my Swiss meringue buttercream craft the next time a birthday comes around. But only if there’s ample time to spare and I’ve prepped my ingredients earlier.


Honey Cupcakes With Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Adapted from Half-Baked, the Cake Blog
Makes a dozen cupcakes
Ingredients:
For the cupcakes:
1 stick butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla extract
For the frosting:
1-1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
4 oz. cream cheese, softened
3 cups confectioners sugar
3 Tbsp honey
Grated zest from 1 lemon
Directions:
For the cupcakes:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 12 muffin cups with liners.
In medium bowl mix together flour, baking powder and salt, and set aside. In small bowl mix together buttermilk, honey and vanilla, and set aside. In bowl of stand mixer cream butter and sugar on medium speed until combined. Add eggs, one at a time beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Gradually add the dry and wet ingredients, alternating starting and ending with dry ingredients. Don’t overmix.
Fill the liners 2/3 full. Bake 18-20 minutes or until tops are golden.
For the frosting:
In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until combined. Gradually add confectioner’s sugar and continue to mixing scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Mix in honey and lemon zest. Frost the cupcakes.
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