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Green white and gold decorated oreos perfect for your favorite Leprochauns on Saint Patricks Day – these oreos are simple to make, and so fun to decorate!
If you love celebrating Saint Patricks Day, you’ll love this easy and fun recipe that is great to make for parties, picnics, classrooms, and more!
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Quick and Easy St. Patricks Day Dipped Oreos
Dipped oreos are one of our favorite holiday traditions in my house – we love making them with my kids and decorating them for holidays.
It is so fun to set up all of the sprinkles, icing, and candy melts, and let the kids dive in and try their hand at making their own fun masterpieces – or just making them to pass out as a sweet treat for parties. I’d make these for elementary school paddy parties since they are single-serve and super fun, and easier to eat without a huge mess like a cupcake!
Check out my web story about these festive dipped oreos here!
How To Make Dipped Oreos
To make these adorable and easy dipped oreos, you’ll need:
- Candy Melts – you can use chocolate or white chocolate, but we find using candy melts (or even coverture chocolate) works best for a smooth, easy melt.
- Oreos – you can use regular oreos, double or mega stuff, minty oreos – the sky is the limit!
- Dipping Mold – this is optional, but we find oreo dipping molds to be game-changers for making dipped oreos! They speed up the time and allow you to get way more chocolate on your oreos, plus get a smooth, even look. Find our suggested mold here.
- Sprinkles! We love shamrock sprinkles, gold sprinkles, nonpareils, and gold coin sprinkles for these oreos!
1. Get out two small bowls. Dump the green wafers in one and the white wafers in the other one. Put the bowls in the microwave and start melting by using 30-second intervals, mixing in between.
2. Grab the Oreo mold and place a spoonful of melted chocolate in the mold until evenly covered. Place the Oreo right in the middle. Lightly push the Oreo down and put more melting chocolate on top until evenly covered.
3. Repeat step two until all the molds have chocolate-covered Oreos. Place the molds in the fridge until hardened.
4. If using a silicone mold, peel the Oreo out. If using a plastic mold, flip the mold and lightly tap the mold until the Oreos fall out.
5. For Leprechaun hats, add black fondant to the oreo with a bit of white frosting as “glue” and add gold sanding sugar to the top – it will stick with a bit of water spritzed over the oreo. Drizzle candy melts or icing over oreos and top with nonpaerils for confetti oreos. “Glue” candy shamrocks to the top of oreos with frosting.
6. Decorate the Oreos however you’d like! Make sure to let the decorations chill and harden before serving, then enjoy!
Tips and Tricks to Dipped Oreos and FAQs:
For perfect smooth Oreos, we recommend using this mold.
For the best results, we recommend using candy melts, instead of chocolate.
These oreos are incredibly easy, but these tips will help you make sure they are perfect, everytime.
-Let cool before handling. This is important to keep from imprinting with fingerprints.
-You can smooth over fingerprints by lightly buffing candy with clean fingertips.
-Decorate dipped oreos after they have cooled and have been removed from dipping tray.
FAQs
If using candy melts, your oreos can last in airtight plastic wrapping for up to two weeks. Store in a cool, dry place.
No, you can also just dip oreos using a skewer or dipping fork, and dunk them in candy, setting on wax paper to cool. We just like the smooth, clean lines from using a dipping tray.
You can use double stuff, mega stuff, or specialty flavor oreos – whatever you like!
Other Saint Patricks Day Ideas
If you’re looking for more Saint Patricks Day eats and drinks to celebrate the Emerald Isle with, check out some of our favorites below:
For more St. Patricks Day recipes, click here.
Easy St. Patricks Day Dipped Oreos Recipe
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St. Patricks Day Dipped Oreos
Equipment
Ingredients
- 36 Oreos
- 2 20 oz packages of green melting wafers
- 2 20 oz packages of white melting wafers
- St. Patricks Day Sprinkles
Instructions
- 1. Get out two small bowls. Dump the green wafers in one and the white wafers in the other one. Put the bowls in the microwave and start melting by using 30-second intervals, mixing in between.
- 2. Grab the Oreo mold and place a spoonful of melted chocolate in the mold until evenly covered. Place the Oreo right in the middle. Lightly push the Oreo down and put more melting chocolate on top until evenly covered.
- 3. Repeat step two until all the molds have chocolate-covered Oreos. Place the molds in the fridge until hardened.
- 4. If using a silicone mold, peel the Oreo out. If using a plastic mold, flip the mold and lightly tap the mold until the Oreos fall out.
- 5. For Leprechaun hats, add black fondant to the oreo with a bit of white frosting as “glue” and add gold sanding sugar to the top – it will stick with a bit of water spritzed over the oreo. Drizzle candy melts or icing over oreos and top with nonpareils for confetti oreos. “Glue” candy shamrocks to the top of oreos with frosting.
- 6. Decorate the Oreos however you'd like! Make sure to let the decorations chill and harden before serving, then enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
