So of course, Suzie came first to my mind as I was working on these chocolate dipped Oreos for this year’s baskets. I figured if I snapped some pictures and put together a little tutorial here, it might help her out. (Doubtful, but hey, what are friends for?)
Brush the Oreos with a big fluffy food brush before you dip them to avoid excess crumbs from getting in your melted chocolate. I use a large 3 pronged fork to dip the cookies. I dip, then let most of the excess chocolate fall back into the bowl, then place them on parchment or wax paper.
Gently place the transfer sheet squares on top and gently press it into place on top to make sure that chocolate comes into contact with all of the design.
I do about 5-8 on a cookie sheet and then pop those in the freezer for 5 minutes. Chilling them makes the design transfer over fully and cleanly, as well as giving the surface a nice shine. Just pull the transfer sheet square off when you take them out of the freezer. Don’t worry about the little bit of chocolate mess at the base of your cookies. After they have come back to room temp, you can take your handy palette knife and clean up the bottom edges.
By the end of your dipping session, your chocolate is still probably going to be “contaminated” with chocolate cookie crumbs, making it not very useful for any other purpose. So I crumble up all the broken Oreos that I did not dip into the chocolate, spread that on the parchment, chill, and break it up into a cookies and cream bark. YUMMY!
All the items in my basket are going to have a candy cane/peppermint theme. I do a different theme every year.
I will bag each of these individually and tie with a red ribbon before I put them in the baskets. If I place them unwrapped into the baskets; the transfer surface might get scratched and marked up by other items, and we just can’t have that! Not after all this work!
Maybe if Suze reads this she can give it another go. Of course, if she does read this I am in big time trouble. LOL
I hope you all get a chance to try this. Send me pics of your projects if you do! Even better, send all your pics to Suze! Tee hee hee.
Have fun making all of your holiday treats! I will try to post pics of more of the things I am working on if time permits. Such a crazy time of year, isn’t it?
Happy Holidays Ya’ll!
Sharon
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Great looking cookies woman!! I hope it helps Suze!
Sharon,
Have you seen the candy cane peppermint oreos they have out now? I dipped some and they are fabulous! Not as beautiful as your cookies (I am dipping impaired too) but yummy!!
Wow! What a good idea. O love red and white cookies and ever more the snowmen ones. Congrats, your gift baskets are going to be a big hit!
Love this idea!
ohh boy oh boy the yat/yank war has come in to full swing
naughty naughty sharon right in the middle of Suze moving house , having things in boxes and no energy to bake **snork**
Girls we need to pull up the couch, pop out the diet coke and large bags of popcorn and chocolate and wait this one out , i think its going to go down hill real fast lol …… oh and btw Sharon nice oreos
these are adorable. I like both the snowmen and the sugar cane decorated ones. They look super. Great gift 🙂
Snork!!!! You are so gonna get it YAT!!!!
These look absolutely adorable!!!
Oh man, those are CUTE CUTE CUTE! I have absolutely no skillz, but by Sharon’s description, mine might actually come out better than Suze’s? hehe… I doubt it –
Suze, with friends like that, who needs enemies?? LOL
I love these – they don’t look homemade at all and their clean lines are super classy! Nice job!
Look at that dipping technique!! Thanks for posting for Suze and the rest of us!! Great photos…I really like all the angles and the ones showing the insides! They look great and will make awesome treats in your baskets.
Wow, these are very cool! Love your use of the transfer sheets in this creative way. I haven’t used those yet and really must give them a try. Thanks for the great post!
Love the tutorial, Sharon. You certainly have the dipping skills!
Yes, I love this! Transfer sheets! I had wanted to kick my chocolate dipped cookies up a notch, and this is perfect.
These are so cute! Chocolate covered oreos are the best!
Lovely…I've got to try this with the holly & berry transfer sheets that I got at the NEC show…but with Double Stuf!
Yum! Those snowmen Oreos are adorable. This is the BEST way to eat Oreos.
Perfection, Sharon! What a fun theme-the candy canes! They look terrific. (poor Suze!)
If you weren’t forcing me to make these along with you, I would say that they were great! lol
Well, they are great of course! Can’t wait to see more!
How many cookies can I get out of one transfer sheet? I want to order some and can’t figure out the quantity needed.
Thanks everyone!
Anon: I THINK I got 25-30 per sheet. i had 3 sheets and did about 2.5 boxes of oreos. give or take. HTH!
Can you tell us how you did the snowmen last year? Specifically I am wondering what you did to get the blue hat and those adorable pink cheeks!!
I would love to know how you did the snowman cookies too! Do you have a tutorial?
Where do you order your transfer sheets? Your cookies are gorgeous!
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Beautiful cookies!
Kara
I'm with Anonymous…. Where'd you get those divine chocolate transfer sheets??
All I can say is wow. I just ran into your site today and I will be back for more ideas. I am not a decorative baker, but looking at your work for ideas inspires me to be one at least a couple of times a year.
Oh and the transfer sheets. I just ordered them. Can't wait to try them out. I may be buying lots of oreos for a while. What else can I put them on other than cakes?
WOW! These are beautiful and they look so delicious!!!