St. Patrick's Day Chocolate Covered Oreos

By Wendy Sondov · Published: Mar 16, 2015 · Modified: Mar 20, 2020 · This post may contain affiliate links · As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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St. Patrick's Day Chocolate Covered Oreos, sparkling with green decorating sugar, are super easy to make. The Celtic swirl adds Irish charm to these chocolaty treats.

Chocolate Covered Oreos with a green sparkle sugar coated swirl on top.

Why you'll love this care package

Soldier B. is very busy doing his job, so I really don’t expect to hear from him much, but I worry. So, I was delighted to get a Facebook message from him letting me know that the care packages are appreciated.

Most importantly, the message let me know he was safe.

The message read, “Being overseas and receiving care packages from you has been amazing. I make sure to share the gifts and baked goods with my fellow soldiers and we all say it's a good moral booster when we receive a box.

Thank you for your support to us while we are gone. Everything you have sent has done its job in putting a smile on a face or helping someone's sweet tooth. Thanks again.”

Decorated and filled St. Patrick's Day Care Package with clip art leprechauns on the flaps.

Care package contents

With smile-inducing packaging in mind, my first task, when preparing a care package is to dress up the inside of the shipping box. For some themes like Christmas or birthdays, the easiest method is to line the box, or cover the box flaps, with theme appropriate wrapping paper.

For Easter and St. Patrick’s Day last year, I cut holiday shapes from colored or patterned paper and glued those onto the box flaps. I used newspaper photos for the baseball theme.

Free online clip art is another source of decorating material. I found clip art turkeys for Thanksgiving and used wee clip art leprechauns for this St. Patrick’s Day package.

Care Package Contents: cereal, gold chocolate coins, cookies, puzzle books, green garland.

The box is packed full of leprechaun goodies: shamrock garland, leprechaun cut-outs, Lucky Charms cereal, gold foil chocolate coins, puzzle books with green covers, and a green box of Girl Scout Thin Mints.

Decorated cookies

Usually this section provides details on a simple iced sugar cookie design. Easy-to-create iced shamrock cookies were included in last year’s St. Patrick’s Day military care package.

This time I decided to chocolate coat, then decorate, some St. Patrick's Day Chocolate Covered Oreos using colored white chocolate. Soldier B. is particularly fond of chocolate-mint and I had what I thought were great ideas for decorating.

I appear to be gaining all kinds of decorating experience through the school of hard knocks. It turns out that decorating with melted white chocolate doesn’t work the same way as decorating with icing. It solidifies too quickly.

Closeup showing green colored sugar on top of piped green candy coating swirl.

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I tried making shamrocks and ended up with a blob of green tinted white chocolate covered in toothpick lines. Not what I had in mind.

I tried using a Wilton candy melts tip to create a green plaid and ended up with a messy zigzag of lines. At least my family was happy about these failures, because they get to eat all ugly cookies. And these were ugly.

Finally, out of desperation, I went for super simple. The Celtic Spiral is an ancient symbol of the Celts who inhabited Ireland starting around 500BCE.

It is said to be a symbol of energy, growth, perseverance and knowledge (http://www.the-symbols.net/celtic/) Seems like a good symbol to use on cookies for soldiers, or anyone else!

Though this sparkly swirl is not what I planned, it is appropriately green, Irish, and twinkles with leprechaun magic. Change the color of the tinted white chocolate and decorator sugar, and these chocolate coated Oreos would work for any celebration.

Closeup of swirl decorated chocolate coated cookies.

No recipe is needed for making St. Patrick's Day Chocolate Covered Oreos. I offer some directions that are intended as helpful hints.

I used dark melting chocolate for coating the Oreos, because it’s easy to use (no tempering) and stays looking pretty for weeks. Once the coating is set, I piped on the spiral using tinted white chocolate, followed immediately with a sprinkle of green decorating sugar.

For another festive way to decorate sandwich cookies, you might want to try these adorable St. Patricks Day Cookies!

New recipe

Rainbow’s End Rocky Road Candy was the new recipe included in this care package. I turned this chocolate, marshmallow, and peanut confection into a St. Patrick’s Day treat with a sprinkle of rainbow chips and some green nonpareils.

The Rocky Road was packed in plastic food storage boxes. I am pretty sure the weather is cool enough right now in Afghanistan for this candy to arrive intact, but just in case it melts, the plastic boxes will serve as soup bowls and Soldier B. can eat it with a spoon!

More St. Patrick's Day treats

Steel Cut Oats Cookies are made with Irish oatmeal for an extra chewy texture and nutty flavor.

Biscotti are an Italian cookie, but Chocolate Mint Biscotti are swirled with chocolate and green mint just for St. Patrick’s Day!

Tea Brack is a traditional Irish tea cake full of warming spices and raisins.

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