This Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies recipe is a simple way to incorporate Mardi Gras colors — purple, gold, and green — into your Mardi Gras celebration.
This recipe is a great way to celebrate Mardi Gras at home. For more ways, check out all our Mardi Gras posts.
The Mardi Gras colors are green, gold, and purple and each has its own meaning. Green represents faith; gold represents power; and purple represents justice.
So if you’re making any Mardi Gras decorations or desserts, you’ll want to incorporate those three colors into them.
Of course, adding gold is a little difficult, so in this Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies recipe, we use yellow. It’s close, and for our purposes, close enough.
If you have extra Oreo cookies and you’re wondering what to do with them, check out all of our other Oreo dessert recipes.
Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies Recipe
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Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies Ingredients:
- 12 oz. (6 squares) vanilla almond bark
- 20 Oreo cookies
- 12 green candy melts
- 12 purple candy melts
- 12 yellow candy melts
How To Make Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies:
Melt the vanilla almond bark according to the package.
The easiest way to do this is to put it in a microwave safe bowl for one minute. Take it out and stir. Then, heat it for another 30 seconds and stir. Continue this at 30 second intervals until the vanilla almond bark is melted completely.
Put an Oreo cookie in the melted vanilla almond bark. Submerge the cookie completely.
Use a fork to remove the Oreo cookie from the melted vanilla almond bark. Shake the fork a little to remove any excess almond bark.
Set the Oreo cookie on a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet to cool.
Continue until you’ve finished all the Oreo cookies.
If you work slowly and the vanilla almond bark starts to harden before you’re done, you can put it back in the microwave for an additional 30 seconds and it will melt again.
Once the vanilla candy bark has hardened on all the Oreo cookies, pick them up and move them so they’re all touching. This will make it easier to pipe the green, purple, and yellow across the cookies. You’ll be able to pipe them all at once instead of needing to do each one individually.
Melt the green candy melts according to the package.
Cut a small piece of the corner off a plastic sandwich bag. Put the melted green candy melts in the bag.
Carefully, and quickly, pipe green lines across all the white almond bark-covered Oreo cookies.
Turn the entire tray one-quarter turn.
Melt the purple candy melts according to the package.
Cut a small piece of the corner off a new plastic sandwich bag. Put the melted purple candy melts in the bag.
Again, carefully and quickly pipe purple lines across the Oreo cookies. Turning the tray means that your purple lines are going in a different direction than your green lines.
Turn the tray another quarter turn.
Melt the yellow candy melts according to the package.
Cut a small piece off the corner of a third plastic sandwich bag. Put the melted yellow candy melts in the bag.
As with the other colors, carefully and quickly pipe yellow lines across the Oreo cookies.
Leave them on the tray until the candy melts are completely hardened. Then, store them in an airtight container.
Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies: Frequently Asked Questions
Vanilla almond bark is amazing to work with in this Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies recipe because it makes dipping the Oreo cookies really easy.
See, vanilla almond bark is really forgiving. You can’t really burn it. And if it hardens while you’re still using it, you can just put it back in the microwave and reheat it. It’ll melt exactly as it did the first time.
White chocolate chips, or just chocolate chips in general, aren’t that forgiving. They’re really easy to burn in the microwave. And if they harden before you’re done with them, you can’t reheat them. They’ll either burn or the chocolate will cease and harden (or both) and you’ll have to throw the leftover chips in the trash.
So vanilla almond bark is definitely the way to go.
But, if all you have access to are white chocolate chips, you can use them. Just be very careful when you do.
The name of this recipe has the word “Oreo” in it, so if you want to make this exact recipe, you need to use Oreo cookies.
But, if you have a different cookie that you’d rather use instead, go ahead and experiment with that one. It’s sure to turn out delicious.
I can’t say enough good things about our silicone baking mat. I use it all the time. In this recipe, it’s really helpful because the chocolate dipped Oreos just pop right off when the almond bark is hardened. You don’t have to worry about the cookies getting stuck to the cookie sheet, which can happen if you don’t use the baking mat.
If you don’t have one, you could lay parchment paper down on a cookie sheet instead. The Oreo cookies will pop right off there as well.
One of the big reasons we use the silicone baking mat over parchment paper is that the baking mat is reusable and parchment paper is disposable. So, to save a little money and to be more earth conscious, we prefer the silicone baking mat.
Keep Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for about two weeks. You don’t need to refrigerate them. If you do refrigerate chocolate covered cookies, they’ll last about four weeks.
Tips For Using Candy Melts:
Candy melts, also known as candy wafers depending on the brand, are pretty easy to work with once you get the hang of it.
But, if you’ve never used them before, check out our Tips For Using Candy Melts post first so that you get it right on the first try.
Purchase Mardi Gras Cookies online:
If you like these cookies, but you don’t have time to make them yourself, that’s okay. We found some Mardi Gras cookies you can purchase online below:
- Mardi Gras Mask Gourmet Sugar Cookies
- Mardi Gras Sugar Cookies (pictured above)
- King Cake Cookies
- 1 Dozen Mardi Gras Cookies (including a gator, mask, and more cookies)
- Mardi Gras Oreo Gift Box
More Mardi Gras Dessert Recipes:
If you like this Mardi Gras dessert ideas, we have a few other ones that you can make to set up a delicious Mardi Gras-themed dessert charcuterie board.
Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies
This Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies recipe is a simple way to incorporate Mardi Gras colors — purple, gold, and green — into your Mardi Gras celebration.
Ingredients
- 12 oz. (6 squares) vanilla almond bark
- 20 Oreo cookies
- 12 green candy melts
- 12 purple candy melts
- 12 yellow candy melts
Instructions
- Melt the vanilla almond bark according to the package.
- Put an Oreo cookie in the melted vanilla almond bark. Submerge the cookie completely.
- Use a fork to remove the Oreo cookie from the melted vanilla almond bark. Shake the fork a little to remove any excess almond bark.
- Set the Oreo cookie on a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet to cool. Continue until you’ve finished all the Oreo cookies. Once the vanilla candy bark has hardened on all the Oreo cookies, pick them up and move them so they’re all touching.
- Melt the green candy melts according to the package. Cut a small piece of the corner off a plastic sandwich bag. Put the melted green candy melts in the bag. Carefully, and quickly, pipe green lines across all the white almond bark-covered Oreo cookies.
- Turn the entire tray one-quarter turn.
- Melt the purple candy melts according to the package. Cut a small piece of the corner off a new plastic sandwich bag. Put the melted purple candy melts in the bag. Again, carefully and quickly pipe purple lines across the Oreo cookies. Turning the tray means that your purple lines are going in a different direction than your green lines.
- Turn the tray another quarter turn.
- Melt the yellow candy melts according to the package. Cut a small piece off the corner of a third plastic sandwich bag. Put the melted yellow candy melts in the bag. As with the other colors, carefully and quickly pipe yellow lines across the Oreo cookies.
- Leave them on the tray until the candy melts are completely hardened. Then, store them in an airtight container.
Nutrition Information
Yield
20Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 101Total Fat 3gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 0gCholesterol 0mgSodium 53mgCarbohydrates 19gFiber 0gSugar 11gProtein 0g
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