CHOCOLATE-COVERED OREOS

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I make them weekly because they are very popular with the homeless dinner, and as you might imagine, I don’t like to repeat designs. I love variety. These can be decorated in countless ways, some easier than others. In fact, I have tried a few things that quickly went into the “Never Again Folder”… For previous collections, click here and here. Without further ado, here are some of the designs I made in the past couple of months, starting with perhaps my very favorite!

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THE JAPANESE-MODERN

To make this design, all you need is some different colors of luster powder and a bit of vodka. Make a suspension and add small blotches on the surface of the mold. Let it dry for a few minutes and pour the melted compound chocolate. They will look good just with the colors, or you gild the lily with a small disc of chocolate decorated with a transfer sheet, in this case I used a cherry blossom pattern.

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The same exact method works with white chocolate… In this case I added some fondant sunflowers I had from last year’s cookie projects. I have quite a few ideas for color combinations in the near future, so stay tuned!

Luster powder can also be used to paint the surface of the chocolate after it sets, as I did for the set below… It does not go into the “Never Again Folder”, but it is a bit time-consuming.

Another great way to decorate is Royal icing… For the ones below I made straight lines in black and before they set I glued a little sprinkle heart in the crossed section. I love their minimalist look.

You can also pipe thicker lines of Royal icing coupled with a little sanding sugar… For added contrast, I dyed the white chocolate poured into the mold with fat-soluble sky blue dye. These were a good match for some macarons I made in that same week (see post here).

Even easier is just making a random drizzle with icing, fast and straightforward..

Sharing perhaps my second favorite of this set: Royal icing in circular piping plus a disc of chocolate decorated with transfer sheet, also saved from a project last year. The Royal icing was dyed with Americolor Gold. And once all was set, I sprayed some gold dust all over because.. why not?

Finally, the method that I don’t recommend and it truly drove me crazy: spread the Royal icing with a stencil. It was very very tricky to hold the stencil over the small surface, I had to scrape it all and start all over many times, as it would smear and end up quite messy. I managed to get three reasonably good ones, but as I said before…. never again!

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BEWARE: Making chocolate-covered Oreos can be addictive!

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9 thoughts on “CHOCOLATE-COVERED OREOS”

  3. Oh my. Sally, I woke up today in a rather bad mood. Houseguests are arriving later today and I’m dreading losing my normal quietude. I’m eager to see my sister and her husband but I’m also going to hate having visitors for 10 days. So when I saw the beauty unfolding as I scrolled down the page on my tablet, my heart lifted and my mood instantly changed. Will I ever try to engineer anything so beautiful? Probably not, since my baking prowess is confined to breads at the moment. But who knows? You’ve given me and all who follow you a real gift today. Thank you.

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    • I know exactly how you feel, and wow, 10 days IS a long time…. it gave me a big smile to know my post brought you some lift from the stressful time ahead – I hope it all goes smoothly – it is very stressful to have people over, even if they are close friends or family members, that pressure to make sure all goes well, it can be very difficult. It is for me….

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  4. As bad as lockdowns were, I have to admit that I didn’t mind the isolation very much! In normal times, my husband and I can go many hours without saying a word to each other, and we both like it that way. My sister is something of a chatterbox, which I find quite trying after a while. I love her dearly but I do sneak away to my study/knitting room pretty often when she’s here. Yes, 10 days is a long time but the flight out here from the east coast is expensive, so I understand why she and her husband want to stay a while. I hope the snow gets better so we can spend a lot of time on the slopes. What do you do to cope with houseguests and your need for some solitude? I picture you disappearing into your home lab, to peer at beasties under the microscope.

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    • I have a little idiosyncrasy – I don’t care for going to the movies, so one kind of a deal I have with Phil is that if everybody wants to go to the movie theatre, I stay home with the pups. That gives me some time to be on my own, my little sort of solitude, even if the pups can be pretty wild… I also have my exercise time that I use for that – so I might get up super early but go for a long walk or jog on my own. And I will take a little break and go upstairs to the bedroom to “work on my blogs” or something. Little breaks help. 

      Entertaining is mentally very tiring so I know how you feel. 

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