Santa Belly OREOs
These festive chocolate covered OREO cookies are decorated to look like Santa’s red coat – and require only 3 ingredients!
Santa OREOs Recipe
One of our favorite holiday traditions is we always make a themed chocolate-covered OREO cookie.
EVERYONE in the family loves OREOs, its an easy dessert for everyone to help make, plus its so fun to come up with a new design that is perfect for whatever holiday or occasion we are celebrating.
We’ve made everything from Valentine Teddy Bear OREOs to Baby Shark OREOs (for Shark Week, of course), and our latest creation is today’s Santa OREOs, which are styled to look like Santa’s round belly, with that iconic belt hanging on for dear life.
These adorable cookies are perfect for so many occasions/uses:
- Lunch box treat
- Movie night snack
- Christmas Cookie Exchange – or any holiday party
- Gifting to friends, teachers, family, etc
- Using to top Christmas cupcakes as an easy way to decorate
Ingredients
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- Oreo Sandwich Cookies
- White Melting Chocolate
- Dark chocolate melting wafers
- Red & yellow gel food coloring
Tip: be sure to use a food dye that doesn’t contain water. Alternatively, you can use red, brown/black and yellow candy melts in place of the white chocolate chips.
Kitchen Tools You May Find Helpful
- Baking Sheet with Parchment Paper
- Microwave-safe bowls
- Fork or Candy Dipping Tools
- Piping Bag
Instructions
To Prep: Line a large baking sheet with wax paper or parchment paper.
Melt the white chocolate wafers in a microwave-safe bowl in the microwave in 15-second intervals,
stirring between each, until melted and smooth.
Scoop a small amount of the melted white chocolate into a separate bowl and color it yellow. This will be used to make the belt buckle. Scoop about 1/4 cup of the melted white chocolate into a piping bag and set aside. Color the rest of the melted white chocolate red.
Use a fork to dip the Oreos into the melted red chocolate, turning it to fully coat. Tap the
fork to shake off any excess chocolate and place on the parchment paper to dry.
Place the cookies in the fridge for 10 minutes to chill and set slightly before decorating.
Melt the dark chocolate wafers in a microwave-safe bowl in the microwave in 15-second intervals,
stirring between each, until melted and smooth. Scoop into a piping bag and cut the tip off to make a small opening.
Use the dark chocolate to pipe a belt across each OREO cookies, the white chocolate to pipe buttons, and the yellow colored chocolate to make the belt buckle.
Refrigerate to chill and set quickly, or allow to dry at room temperature.
Prep Tips:
- How to store chocolate-covered OREOs: Once the chocolate has set/hardened, store your Oreos in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week. Avoid refrigerating them, as it will cause the chocolate to sweat.
- Add Flavors: Yes, you can add a flavor oil or extract (nothing containing water as that will cause the chocolate to break) or use a flavored OREO for a different flavor profile. Vanilla extract, raspberry flavor oil or flavored OREOs would be my top suggestions! If you look closely, you’ll see that we actually used strawberry OREOs to make these Santa OREOs!
More No-Bake Christmas Treats The Whole Family Will Love:
- 5-Minute Peppermint Fluff
- Hot Cocoa Fudge
- Christmas Cornflake Cookies
- Christmas Lasagna
- Cream Cheese Mints
- Sugar Cookie Dip
- Peppermint Bark
- Christmas Tree Pretzels
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Santa OREOs
Ingredients
- 10-12 OREOs
- 1 1⁄2 cups white chocolate chips
- Gel Food Coloring (red, brown, yellow)
Instructions
- Line a large baking sheet with wax paper or parchment paper.
- Using 4 small bowls, melt the white chocolate in the microwave in 15-second intervalsstirring between each.
- Add red, yellow and brown food coloring one by one. Milk chocolate can be usedinstead of using brown food coloring. Don’t add any coloring to the 4th bowl as wewill use it to make white buttons.
- Use a fork to dip the Oreos into red colored chocolate, turning it to fully coat. Tap thefork to shake off any excess chocolate and place on the parchment paper to dry.
- Let the cookies sit at room temperature or chill until the coating has fully set.
- Fill 3 piping bags with yellow, brown and white chocolate.
- First create the belt using yellow and brown colored chocolate, as the last step makebuttons using white chocolate.
- Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
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