Grab a glass of bubbly and toast the New Year with these adorable cookies! Totally make-aheadable, these decorated New Year’s Eve cookies are fun, festive, and sure to be the hit of the party!
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Fun to decorate and delicious to eat, these New Year’s Eve cookies can be decorated a bunch of ways! Grab your sprinkles and edible decorations and get busy making these show-stopping festive holiday cookies!
What you’ll love about this recipe
- These are fun, easy, and cute cookies and they taste great, too!
- They’re unique – everyone will be talking about them!
- These decorated New Year’s Eve cookies are totally make-aheadable!
What You Need To Make Decorated New Year’s Eve Cookies
- Parchment paper
- Fork
- Culinary tongs – so very helpful if you’ve got shaky hands!
- Oreo cookies – or other sandwich cookies
- White chocolate – see notes below
- Coconut oil – if you’re using white chocolate, melting wafers don’t need coconut oil
- Various sprinkles & edible decorations
White Chocolate – What You Need To Know
Not all white chocolate is the same, and for making these cookies, you don’t need to splurge on the super gourmet white chocolate.
For cookies like this, my favorite “white chocolate” is the white chocolate melting wafers. It’s not really white chocolate at all, but it’s designed to coat and form a hard shell without tempering (bringing the chocolate to a certain temperature so that it forms a shell when cooled.)
You can find these melting wafters at craft stores in the baking section, or even in large supermarkets. They’re also much harder to mess up, unlike temperamental white chocolate which needs to be melted in a double boiler.
For this recipe, you’ll need about 1.5 ounces of white chocolate or candy coating per 8 cookies.
How To Make Decorated New Years Eve Cookies
For a full list of ingredients and instructions, please scroll down to the recipe card at the bottom of this page.
- Melt the white chocolate wafers as per the instructions. Usually they heat well in the microwave at medium-power in 30 second intervals until melted.
- Dip the cookies into the candy coating or white chocolate and set them on parchment paper to dry/harden. A fork works well – balance the cookie on a fork and dip it into the melted coating then let it drip off.
- While the candy coating is still wet, apply the decorations. Use larger sprinkles to represent the hours, and smaller sprinkles for the minutes.
- Let them dry and enjoy!
Chef Jenn’s Tips
- Parchment paper is essential – the chocolate/candy coating will stick to nearly everything else making the hardened cookies difficult to remove. Do yourself a favor and use parchment paper (not waxed paper).
- If your chocolate/candy coating gets thick, heat it up a bit to smooth it out.
- Use a variety of sandwich cookies – chocolate or vanilla Oreos are my favorties.
- Get the kids involved – everyone loves decorating cookies!
Frequently Asked Questions
Keep your cookies in an airtight container on the counter or in a cool spot (not the fridge as the chocolate coating can get condensation on it when coming to room temperature) for about a week.
I love using bright, metallic colors for these cookies. And, you can even spread some icing on the top of the cookies to change up the color of the “clock face”.
Not at all! Just gather the ingredients, set up your work area, and have fun decorating! The options are limited only by your imagination!
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Step By Step Process
Decorated New Year’s Eve Cookies
Equipment
- Small bowl
Ingredients
- 2 ounces white chocolate melting wafers
- 1.5 teaspoons coconut oil
- 12 Oreo cookies
- sprinkles
- icing colors
Instructions
- Melt the white chocolate and coconut oil in a small bowl in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring well in between. Or, use white chocolate melting wafers and follow the instructions to melt them.
- Dip each Oreo into the white chocolate and let them set on a piece of parchment paper.
- Decorate the cookies while still damp with the sprinkles, so that they stick. Use the culinary tongs for precision.
- Let the cookies set and enjoy!
Nutrition
A Note on Nutritional Information
Nutritional information for this recipe is provided as a courtesy and is calculated based on available online ingredient information. It is only an approximate value. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site cannot be guaranteed.
Did a test run on these today and they came out great! Especially loved your tip about the white chocolate melting wafers. Can’t wait to make the cookies again on New Years Eve. Thanks for the awesome article.