Stenciled Chocolate Double Stuffed Oreos!!!

 

Photo taken by Starfish Studios

I love the idea of wedding favors, but they can become really expensive and the whole point is just to be able to say thank you for coming!  However, T and I had some excellent chocolate covered oreo favors at our friends' wedding.  They were super cute (the oreos were dressed up like a bride and a groom).  I loved them so much I wanted to figure out how to make them! However, I did not want to have the exact same favor since that wedding was about a month before ours. 

So I ended up spending a lot of time researching chocolate covered oreos. I ended up making the oreos in the bag pictured above. We LOVED them!  The big trick to making these oreos is to use chocolate transfer paper. It makes the oreos look much more professional:

I bought this transfer paper online at Country Kitchen:(http://www.countrykitchensa.com/whatshot/transfersheets.aspx).  This worked fine, but I am not sure I would recommend them. I'll tell you why below.  But first! A tutorial!

Materials:

1. Oreos (I found double stuff oreos to work best).  I especially liked the taste of the double stuff mint oreos, but it is completely up to you!

2. Candy melts. I used these because they were less likely to melt, and we had a beach wedding, so this was a very important factor!

3. Transfer paper. If you google chocolate transfer paper, there are quite a few options. I liked the one I picked because it had a wedding theme, but you could pick themes for holidays or birthdays too! This paper has some sort of edible ink on it that will literally "transfer" onto your chocolate.

4. Candy molds. I ordered these from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007N75XEG/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1), but you could find them anywhere!  Amazon Prime will be the death of our bank account.

That's all you need to make this oreo!   The first step is to put your transfer paper in the bottom of the mold (with the ink "face up").  This is literally the major secret to these oreos. I have seen tutorials online where they have you do the transfer last by pouring chocolate onto the sheet and THEN cutting out circles of chocolate to put on top of the oreos, but you really do not need to go to all that trouble! This is by far the fastest and prettiest method.  My one pro tip here is that the transfer paper I bought was plastic, so I could not use my circle punch to punch out the circles. I had to cut them by hand. That's why I don't recommend this transfer paper. If you bought transfers on regular paper, you could easily punch out hundreds of perfect circles. However, this method works fine!

Next, just heat the chocolate in the microwave, according to the candy melt package directions. I heated by chocolate in 20 second blasts, and would stir in between until the chocolate was shiny and melted. It seems to work best if you use a plastic container to heat the chocolate.  Other containers hold too much heat, which makes the chocolate get too hot, at which point it won't form a nice shape (ask me how I know).

Pour the chocolate into the prepped molds, filling them about halfway. Then tap the mold on the counter to get rid of any air bubbles in the chocolate (sorry they look like a mess here - it was literally a sweat shop in our apartment).

Next, put your oreos into the mold. Push them down a little bit to make sure they are centered in the mold.

Finally, top off the oreo with chocolate so that the top is just even with the top of the mold.  Pop the oreos into the fridge or the freezer to set. After the chocolate is set, you can pop the chocolate oreos out of the mold.  Make sure to peel off the transfer paper! You can see that I ended up having to trim off excess chocolate on some of these. As I got better at making these, I had fewer chocolate oreos that needed trimming.

Enjoy!  If you're wondering about the packaging I used, I put the chocolate oreos in candy bags from Amazon (gah! Amazon Prime is just too convenient).  I made the tags on my Cricut - it literally took two minutes to make the purple tags (our colors were plum and platinum).  You could easily customize to match your wedding colors!

 

~SaltyCrafts

 

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