These easy-to-make adorable treats transform chocolate sandwich cookies into charming love bugs for Valentine’s Day!

What You’ll Need

24 Oreos

1 bag Red Chocolate Melts

Valentine Sprinkles

48 Candy Eyes

1 tbsp White Chocolate Chips

How to Make Love Bug Oreo Cookies

Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

Melt a half bag of red chocolate melts in a microwave safe bowl. Start by melting for 30 seconds, remove from microwave and stir. Place back in the microwave for additional 30 seconds and stir. Repeat until the red chocolate is completely melted and smooth.

Dunk an Oreo halfway into the melted red chocolate. While dunking, roll the Oreo back and forth a little so the melted red chocolate comes up on the sides slightly. This gives the cookie the look of a lady bug!

Place Oreo on parchment paper and sprinkle the melted red chocolate with Valentine sprinkles.

Repeat these steps until you’ve reached the desired number of cookies.

Melt a handful of white chocolate chips. This will be the ‘glue’ for the candy eyes.

Dunk a toothpick in the melted white chocolate chips and dab it on the back of a candy eye. Place eye onto the love bug. Repeat to give each of your love bugs a set of eyes.

Let cookies sit to harden before removing from the parchment paper.

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Glue – Using white chocolate as the ‘glue’ for the candy eyes helps make it discrete. If you use any other color, it stands out and takes away from the clean look of the candy eyes.

Red Chocolate – I recommend using a half bag of red chocolate to start with because as you dunk the Oreos little tiny black specks from the cookie are left in the melted chocolate. The more cookies you dunk, the more tiny specks accumulate and it starts to look a little messy. At that point, just discard the melted red chocolate and start fresh with a clean bowl by melting the remaining red chocolate in the bag.

Red Melting Chocolate – It’s best to use red melting chocolates for this project. You can find them at just about any craft store like Hobby Lobby or Michael’s. You can also find them at Walmart. Typically grocery stores do not carry colored melting chocolate. But, if you can’t find red melting chocolate you can use white chocolate and color it red with food coloring.

Dunking – When dunking the Oreo in the melted red chocolate, roll the cookie back and forth a little so the chocolate comes up on the sides slightly. This gives the cookies the ‘lady bug’ look!

Oreos – I recommend using Double Stuffed Oreos, they are thicker. And, I feel like it’s a great excuse to get the Double Stuffed Oreos!