Candy melts help you make adorable desserts with only a little bit of work. This list of recipes using candy melts will give you some great ways to use them.
For more ideas, check out all of our dessert recipes.
I love using candy melts when I’m making desserts. They’re such an easy way to really elevate what you’re making. They come in a variety of colors, so you candy easily dip pretzels or cookies or make candy for any holiday.
Plus, they’re so easy to use. You just pour them into a microwave-safe bowl and microwave at 30-second intervals until they’re melted. Then, just pipe them onto your desserts, add them into candy bark, or dip pretzels or cookies into them.
The possibilities are almost endless.
People get really impressed with desserts using candy melts because they really do come out really nice.
If you are looking for new ways to use them, or if you’re just getting started, this list of recipes using candy melts will inspire you.
Also, I split this list into two sections: recipes using candy melts and holiday recipes using candy melts. The first set are recipes that would work anytime. The second set is very holiday (not season) specific recipes.
If you haven’t used candy melts before, you might want to check out our Tips For Using Candy Melts post first, just to get yourself familiar with them.
Recipes Using Candy Melts
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Ladybug OREO Cookies
The cutest little cookies are these Ladybug OREO Cookies. OREO cookies are dipped into red candy melts. Black candy melts are then used to make the definition for the wings and the ladybug’s face.
Add candy eyes and sprinkles to complete the adorable sweet treat.
No Bake Watermelon Cake Pops
Pink cake pops that are filled with chocolate chips are coated in green candy melts make these No Bake Watermelon Cake Pops.
They look like green balls from the outside, but when you bite into them, you realize they look like tiny watermelons.
Slow Cooker Candy
White candy melts are put in a slow cooker with chocolate chips and cereal to make this Slow Cooker Candy. They’re melted together, then scooped into mini cupcake wrappers.
When the candy has cooled, more white candy melts are used to add designs at the top.
Homemade Chocolate Covered OREO Baseballs
Red candy melts make the lines on these cute Homemade Chocolate Covered OREO Baseball cookies.
What’s great is you actually use candy molds for these, and the lines are already imprinted on the molds, making it so much easier for you.
Fantasy Football Candy Bark
Candy melts come in a lot of different colors, which is great when you are making this Fantasy Football Candy Bark. You can a bag of candy melts in each of your team’s colors and combine them to make the candy bark.
Then, add some gummy footballs and serve it at your game day party.
Holiday Recipes Using Candy Melts
Candy Cane Chocolate Hearts
Two candy canes are positioned together to make a heart shape. Then, melted candy melts are poured between them to make an adorable candy.
You can use them for a Valentine’s Day or Christmas treat.
Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels
Pretzels are dipped in melted white chocolate then decorated with either sprinkles or red candy melts to make these cute Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels.
Filling a ziploc bag wit the melted candy melts, then cutting a small hole in the corner, is a quick and frugal way to make a piping bag if you don’t have one at home.
Shamrock Pretzels
Shamrock Pretzels are such an easy St. Patrick’s Day treat.
Dip pretzels into melted green candy melts, then shape them into clovers on parchment paper. Wait for them to cool completely and they’re ready to enjoy.
Lucky Charms Chocolate Bark
This Lucky Charms Chocolate Bark is a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
Melted green candy melts are swirled into melted vanilla almond bark. Sprinkles and Lucky Charms cereal are added on top to make this really festive treat.
Mardi Gras Candy Bark
Mardi Gras is all about the gold, green, and purple colors and the beads. You get both of those in this Mardi Gras Candy Bark.
Melted yellow, green, and purple candy melts are swirled together and then candy balls are added to it. It’s really cute.
Mardi Gras Oreo Cookies
Mardi Gras OREO Cookies are so incredibly easy to make.
You dip OREO cookies in melted chocolate or vanilla almond bark. Then, melt yellow, green, and purple candy melts. Put each color in its own decorator bag and drizzle the colors over the top of the cookies. That’s it.
DIY Chocolate Easter Smash Eggs
Smash eggs are so popular for Easter and you can easily make them at home.
We use silicone molds to make ours, which just simplifies the process. Paint the embellishments with melted candy melts, then add melted vanilla almond bark. When that hardens, fill two halves with small candies, then stick two halves together. Add a wooden hammer for kids to smash the eggs with.
Red, White & Blue Chocolate Patriotic Stars
For a really fun patriotic dessert, make our Red, White & Blue Chocolate Patriotic Stars.
Red and blue candy melts are shaved into the bottom of a star-shaped silicone mold. Melted white chocolate is poured on top. Once the chocolate has cooled to room temperature, you can serve them.
Red, White And Blue Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods
For an easy Memorial Day or July 4th dessert, go with these Red, White And Blue Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods.
The pretzels are dipped into white chocolate, then cooled. Red candy melts are melted and drizzled on the top of each pretzel while blue candy melts are melted and drizzled on the bottom of each pretzel for a cute patriotic treat.
Halloween Popcorn
Halloween movies and Halloween popcorn are the perfect pairing.
To make the popcorn, pop it, then cover it with melted chocolate chips and orange candy melts. It’s so festive.
Halloween Fudge
The orange candy melts in this Halloween Fudge are used as a substitute for food coloring. You need gel food coloring to dye chocolate chips, not regular food coloring. If you don’t have that, the next best thing to use are candy melts.
Just melt them straight into the white chocolate chips to dye them the perfect color for this Halloween treat.
Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin Rice Krispies Treats
Orange, green, and black candy melts are used to decorate these adorable Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin Rice Krispies Treats.
And yes, black. They’re the most elusive of all the candy melts. Locally, the only type I can find actual black is from ChocoMaker (there are no black Wilton Candy Melts sold around here) and I can only find it sometimes in one Walmart in our area.
Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats
Green and black candy melts — and a steady hand — are what you need to make these Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats. Plus candy eyeballs.
The fun part about them if you can pipe all different expressions on your Frankenstein faces. Don’t forget the small details, like Frankenstein’s scar or his wonky hair.
Halloween Chocolate Bark Recipe
Melted orange candy melts are swirled into melted dark chocolate to make a festive looking Halloween Chocolate Bark.
Of course, you have to add some candy and candy eyeballs to really take it over the top.
Chocolate Covered Pumpkin Pretzels
Pretzels are dipped into melted orange candy melts, which are also drizzled on top of the pretzel, to make these cute Chocolate Covered Pumpkin Pretzels.
Then, green candy melts are melted to add a tiny drizzle at the top to look like a pumpkin’s stem. Pack them in cellophane bags for cute neighbor’s gifts for Halloween.
Chocolate Christmas Tree Pretzel Sticks
Christmas Chocolate Pretzels are some of the easiest Christmas treats to make.
Lay out a pretzel, pipe a Christmas tree on top using melted green candy melts, and decorate it with nonpareils and a star-shaped sprinkle at the very top.
Christmas Pretzel Wreaths
If you want a cute treat to add to your Christmas cookie trays, these Christmas Pretzel Wreaths are it.
You dip the bottoms of pretzel twists into melted green candy melts, then stack them to form a wreath shape. Add a tiny bow piped with melted red candy melts and some sprinkles to finish it off.
Which of these recipes using candy melts is your favorite? Let us know in the comments.