CCBS (Chocolate Crumble Balls)

Food Editors’ Hometown Favorites Cookbook, p. 150

1 ½ cups chocolate cookie crumbs (made from crème-filled sandwich-style chocolate cookies, such as Oreos or Hydrox)

1 ½ quarts vanilla ice cream

Hot Fudge Sauce (recipe follows)

Crush or grind cookies (with filling) to make fine crumbs. 

Nothing more beautiful than a bowl full of crunched-up Oreos.


Using a medium scoop, make 8 balls of ice cream. 

Each of the balls is about the size of a decent snowball.


Roll ice cream balls immediately in crumbs, place in serving dishes and top with Hot Fudge Sauce.

Hot Fudge Sauce

½ cup butter

1 can (5 1/3 ounces) evaporated milk

2 ½ cups confectioners sugar, unsifted

6 squares (1 ounce each) unsweetened chocolate

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt butter in a double boiler. Add evaporated milk, sugar and chocolate. Heat, stirring occasionally, until chocolate melts, about 30 minutes. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and stir vigorously.

Sooooo thick and tasty.


Sauce is best when served warm or at room temperature. Sauce will keep indefinitely in refrigerator.

Note: Sauce is supposed to be thick. If you want a thinner sauce, add more milk or half-and-half. Do not add water.

Fudge cap!


My Rating: 5/5 "These are glorious. It's just the right ratio of Oreo to ice cream (more ice cream than Oreo) and the fudge sauce cements everything together in a wonderful way. All that plus you get to get your hands coated in ice cream while you're making them! It's a win-win!"

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