Easily add color and Christmas spirit to your holiday dessert trays and gifts with these Chocolate Covered Oreos and Iced Christmas Sugar Cookies. Use these simple recipes to add "Wow" to your Christmas cookies.
Why you'll love this recipe
- The Christmas decorations are impressive but very simple to make.
- Choose from no bake Chocolate Covered Oreos or beautiful iced sugar cookies.
- No special tools or skills needed.
- Both cookies stay fresh a long time making them ideal for care packages or for preparing ahead of the holidays.
These gorgeous cookies are real show stoppers and no one will believe how easy they are to make!
Iced Sugar Cookies
When it comes to icing sugar cookies, I am becoming the Queen of Toothpick Designs. Pull a toothpick through icing and amazing things happen.
My handy toothpick has so far created shamrocks and turkey feathers. For these Christmas designs, I used a toothpick to form a wreath and a Christmas tree.
Sugar Cookie Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. The full recipe is in the recipe card below.
- Use one batch of chocolate dough and one batch of vanilla dough. (I decorated twelve vanilla and twelve chocolate circles and froze the rest.)
- The 24 cookies require 1 batch of corn syrup icing. Most of the icing was left white.
- Remove about ½ cup of white icing when thick enough for outlining. Thin the rest to flooding consistency (like white glue).
- Removeslightly more than ½ cup of the thinned icing to color green.
- Outlined the cookies first in the thicker white icing, and allow to set slightly for about 30 minutes before flooding the cookies.
- The designs in green and the added sprinkles are done at the same time as the flooding.
- For the wreath cookies, after flooding the cookie with white, immediately add 10-12 dots of green around the edge of the cookie. Use a toothpick to gently drag the green icing from one circle to the next. Used tweezers to add red sprinkle pearls for holly berries.
- For the Christmas tree cookies, immediately after flooding with white, use the green icing to pipe a large triangle. Add five horizontal lines inside the triangle.
- First use the toothpick to gently drag a bit of green icing outward from the edge of the triangle to resemble pine branches.
- Then, starting at the inside top left of the triangle, gently drag the toothpick down through the horizontal lines to the bottom. Repeat this downward drag in the center and on the right. Used tweezers to add a star sprinkle and multicolored nonpareils.
Christmas Tree Chocolate Covered Oreos
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I added oil based green and red food coloring for candy making to melted white chocolate and piped it in a zigzag onto the top of the chocolate covered cookie.
Christmas Tree Oreo Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. The full recipe is in the recipe card below.
- Dip each cookie into the melted chocolate, then place the cookie onto a wax paper lined cookie sheet.
- Place ¼ cup of white melting chocolate into two small bowls. Microwave to melt.
- Add 10 drops of oil based green candy coloring to one bowl and 10 drops of oil based red candy coloring to the other bowl. Stir until the white chocolate is evenly colored.
- Spoon the melted chocolate into two plastic sandwich/snack bags. Cut a very tiny piece off a bottom corner of each bag and pipe the colored chocolate in a zigzag pattern to create a Christmas tree shape. Top immediately with sprinkles.
Storage
When all of the coating and decoration has hardened, wrap the cookies individually in plastic bags or plastic wrap. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.
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Chocolate Covered Oreos
Ingredients
- 24 sandwich cookies I use Newman's Own
- 1 pound melting chocolate chocolate discs meant for dipping and coating
- ½ cup white melting chocolate white chocolate discs meant for dipping and coating
- green and red candy coloring
- nonpareil sprinkles
Instructions
- Use wax paper to line two cookie sheets or other flat baking pans that will fit into your refrigerator.
- Place the melting chocolate in a bowl large enough that the chocolate fills it up to 1 inch below the rim. Melt the chocolate wafers in the microwave at 50% power for one minute. Stir. If not completely melted, return to the microwave and heat for 15 second intervals, stirring between intervals, until melted.
- Place a cookie into the melted chocolate. Using two forks, press the cookie into the chocolate, then turn it over to coat the underside.
- Using a fork, lift the coated cookie over the bowl. Gently tap the wrist of the hand holding the fork to make excess coating drip back into the bowl. Place the cookie onto the prepared cookie sheet.
- Place ¼ cup of white melting chocolate into two small bowls. Melt at 50% power in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir. If not completely melted, return to the microwave at 50% power for 10 second intervals, stirring between intervals until melted.
- Add 10 drops of oil based green candy coloring to one bowl and 10 drops of oil based red candy coloring to the other bowl. Stir until the white chocolate is evenly colored.
- Spoon the melted chocolate into two plastic sandwich/snack bags. Cut a very tiny piece off a bottom corner of each bag and pipe the colored chocolate in a zigzag pattern to create a Christmas tree shape.
- Important: Add sprinkles immediately after creating each tree. The chocolate hardens quickly.
- When all of the coating and decoration has hardened, wrap the cookies individually in plastic bags or plastic wrap. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.
Notes
- Pack the individually wrapped cookies closely in a box or tin.
- Add crumpled tissue paper between the cookies and the lid, if necessary, to prevent ANY movement while shipping.
Nutrition
First Published:December 11, 2014. Last Updated: December 20, 2023. Updated for additional information and better reader experience.
Vicki
Sounds delicious, easy and something the kids will love. Thank you.
Wendy Sondov
All of these items have received rave reviews (and requests for repeats) from the service members I send them to. I think kids of all ages enjoy these. 🙂 I hope you'll give them a try!
Amy
Your cookies are soooo cute! Thank you for sharing at Reader Tip Tuesday.
Miz Helen
Your recipe has been pinned to our Full Plate Thursday Featured Board and is featured on Full Plate Thursday! Thanks so much for sharing with us! Hope you have a great week and come back soon!
Miz Helen
The Monday Box
Thanks so much for featuring these cookies, Miz Helen! Wishing you a peace filled New Year!
Tianna
yummy cookies! What a wonderful way to spread some holiday cheer to our service military members! They do so much and really don't get the support and recognition they truly deserve. Thank you for this. happy holidays to you!
The Monday Box
Thank you, Tianna! I really enjoy sending military care packages. I agree, we can't say "thank you" enough for the sacrifices made by our troops and their families. Wishing you a peace filled New Year!
April J Harris
Love both these beautiful, delicious cookies - and the icing tutorial is fantastic! Thank you for sharing with us at Hearth and Soul. Pinned and shared on our Hearth and Soul Facebook page.
The Monday Box
Thanks, April! I love designs that are easy and doable by anyone! Your hosting and sharing is much appreciated!
The Ninja Baker
Bravo for your generous care packages for our very deserving military. Pinned your amazing cookie art =) P.s. Found your blog via April's Link Up =)
The Monday Box
Thank you, Kim! I love sharing designs that anybody can do no matter their skill level! I'm a complete beginner myself! The care packages and the cookies hopefully communicate my thanks and best wishes to the troops and bring them a little piece of home.
Tania
They look so cute. Thanks for sharing at Fiesta Friday!
The Monday Box
Thank you, Tania!
Miz Helen
Hi Wendy,
Your cookies are just beautiful and thank you so much for all you do for our deployed military members. We talk a lot about the service they give, but as a family member of some of the active duty members, we thank you for your service to or men and women who serve. God Bless you! Hope you have a fantastic weekend and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday!
Miz Helen
The Monday Box
Hi Miz Helen,
I am so thankful for the sacrifices made by our service members and their families. To acknowledge those efforts and to offer thanks is all I can do to support our heroes. It makes me feel good knowing that my cookies and packages can create a few smiles that may brighten the day for our men and women who serve. Enjoy your weekend!
Beverly
Your cookies all look amazing! What wonderful treats to include in the care packages! Thanks for sharing at Christmas in July.
The Monday Box
Thank you, Beverly! They are so easy to make and Oreos are everyone's favorite! Thanks for hosting Christmas in July!
Michelle
Where do you find those bada bing chocolates?
The Monday Box
Hi, Michelle. The Bada Bing Bada Boom melting chocolate is made by and available at Chocoley.com . (The words should be clickable on the post and link you directly to the site.) the melting chocolate comes in two levels of thickness. There is the thinner dipping and coating formula and the thicker candy and molding formula.
Millie
thanks for supporting and showing love to the troops! I know they appreciate all that you do! These cookies are lovely and, I am sure, delish too!
The Monday Box
Supporting the troops is something I feel honored to to do. Baking a few cookies for our military heroes is an easy way to say thanks and share a smile.
milkandbun
Oh, they are so pretty! I'd love to get such a sweet present for the Xmas! 😀
themondaybox
Thanks, Mila! A little swirl of color makes all the difference. 🙂 These cookies are all easy to do and your are right, they all make great gifts!
Reeni (@cinnamonkitchn)
These are so pretty Wendy! You're going to make someone very happy! You really put extra love and care into every box and it shows.
themondaybox
Thank you, Reeni! I really do try to put extra care in every military box I send, so that the message of "Thanks! You are appreciated!" is loud and clear. Creating smiles and bringing bits of home to the desert are also high on my list. 🙂 Having fun while baking-creating makes it easy. 🙂
Giramuk's Kitchen
If I got that care package it would definitely make my Christmas!! They look amazing! I especially love the Wiggly Christmas Trees on the Oreos! 🙂
I need to learn how to decorate Cookies like you... they look so neat and pretty!
themondaybox
Thank you, Dini! It would be easy to learn to decorate cookies like me because, I promise, I am a complete beginner! The zig zag Christmas trees are extra easy. I am so glad you like them!
Monica
These cookies and the packages are just so festive, Wendy! I need to get some of that Bada Bing coating...all these amazing cookies and treats make me want to enrobe something in chocolate right this second! Your cookie decorating is superb, my friend. I love seeing these treats.
themondaybox
Your sweet words always boost my spirits, Monica! It won't surprise you when I say that everything seems a little fancier and tastier when covered in chocolate! 🙂 I am always thrilled when the cookie decorating turns out well. I am such a total beginner and getting the cookies to look like I envision is far from guaranteed! 🙂
Liz
These are beautiful and adorable! Well done!
themondaybox
Thanks, Liz! They are all yummy, easy, and highly giftable. 🙂