Make These Fun Christmas Oreos with Your Kids

One of my favorite childhood memories of the Christmas holidays is making cookies with my mom and siblings. We baked a variety of cookies in the days leading up to Christmas and gave them to neighbors and friends on Christmas Eve. While this Christmas Oreos recipe we’re sharing today wasn’t on the list of cookies we baked as a child, I continued the Christmas baking tradition with my kids … and these cookies just might make the list this year.

These Christmas Oreos are fun to make, easy, and don’t require any baking. The Christmas Oreos can be used as gifts for neighbors or in a cookie exchange. They will be completely unique and each of your kids can decorate them with their own style to showcase their creativity.

In this post, we’ll show you how to make four different Christmassy characters: Santa, gingerbread men, snowmen, and the Grinch. You can use Oreos with any filling—chocolate, peanut butter, mint, double stuff, you name it—to make your Christmas Oreos.

We used white chocolate glaze for the coating, which smoothly covers the cookies and is easily colored with any type of food coloring that you prefer—liquid or gel.

Ingredients for Christmas Oreos:

• 12 Oreo cookies
• ¾ cup white chocolate coating (from white chocolate chips or candy melts)
• 1 chewy black fruit candy or black licorice
• Red and green candies
• 3 gold and pink heart candies or sprinkles
• Edible eyes
• 2-3 drops of red dye
• one drop each of orange, light green, and yellow dye
• 3 edible snowflake sprinkles
• two to three slices of dark chocolate
• 24 chocolate chips & white chocolate chips
• Other sprinkles and toppings, as desired

How to Make Christmas Oreos

We’ll start with the Santa cookies.

You’ll want to melt the white chocolate coating in a water bath, and then color it red.

Cut the fruit candy into strips, then spread chocolate over the surface of the Oreos. You can dip the cookies in chocolate if you prefer.

Before the chocolate sets, lay out green button beads and a gummy candy belt.

Drop a drop of chocolate in the center of the belt and arrange a gold heart buckle.

Here’s a picture of the Santa Christmas Oreos you can follow:

Now, let’s prepare the jolly gingerbread men.

Mix white and black melted chocolate so that you get a light coffee color. Cover the cookies. Add edible eyes, red noses, and a heart mouth. Chill for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.

Spread some white chocolate on the bangs and sprinkle with colorful nonpareils and snowflakes.

Okay, here’s how to make the snowmen.

Start by forming carrot noses.  Color the melted white chocolate orange and spoon it into a pastry syringe. Drop oblong blobs on parchment paper and chill for 15 minutes in the refrigerator.

Coat the Oreo with white chocolate and make the eyes and mouth with chocolate chips. Place the noses of the carrots on next.

For the menacing Mr. Grinch …

… tint the white chocolate frosting a light grass green color. Cover the Oreos with the frosting.

Cut the chewy candy into small strips for the eyebrows. Before the chocolate sets, line the eyebrows and nose with chocolate chips.

Chill the cookies in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Color the white chocolate yellow. Draw eyes and set pupils with sprinkles.

Make the mouth with red edible markers.

As you’ll see, we only gave the basic instructions for these Christmas Oreos. There is plenty of space for decorating and adding some personality to these cookies.

Before serving or giving away, you’ll want to refrigerate the Oreos for at least 30 minutes. Have fun making these and other Christmas activities with your kids!

Other Christmas Recipes

Milano Reindeer Christmas Cookies

Christmas Lights Sugar Cookies

Marshmallow Snowman Cookies