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These cute Strawberry Ladybugs with Oreos and dark chocolate make a delicious fruit dessert your kids will love.

A plate of Oreo cookies and chocolate-covered strawberries decorated to look like ladybugs, with candy eyes and chocolate dots, garnished with fresh green basil leaves.

This easy recipe is sure to be a hit. It’s perfect for lunchboxes, parties, or a special afternoon dessert when the kids come home from school.

You can even top these adorable ladybugs onto cakes, enjoy them with ice cream for an epic treat, or serve them as part of a ladybug fruit tray with all your favorite Summer fruit and berries.

A hand holds a chocolate-covered cookie decorated as a ladybug with strawberries, candy eyes, and chocolate dots. In the background, a plate offers more tasty bites and fresh strawberries.

Use tiny halved blueberries or chocolate chips for the ladybug dots for a fun twist.

A plate of Oreo cookies topped with chocolate and strawberry slices, decorated to look like ladybugs with candy eyes and basil leaves—these adorable bites are perfect for fun food recipes and surrounded by fresh strawberries.

Servings: ladybugs

Strawberry Ladybugs with Oreos

Oreo cookies topped with dark chocolate and adorable halved strawberry ladybugs.

Prep: 30

Cook: 0

Total: 30

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Equipment

piping utensil or bag
parchment paper

Ingredients

Instructions

Melt the dark chocolate.
Place the chocolate in a bowl.
Halve the strawberries.
Dry the strawberries on a piece of kitchen towel. This will allow the chocolate to stick better.
Dip the tip of each strawberry into the chocolate. Tap off any excess.
Place the strawberries on parchment paper and top with candy eyes.
Transfer the melted chocolate to a piping utensil or bag.
Pipe the ladybug center line and the 6 small dots with the melted chocolate.
Allow to set in the freezer for 5 minutes.
In the meantime, pipe chocolate onto the top of each Oreo.
Top with a fresh basil or mint leaf and then the chocolate-covered ladybugs.
Allow to set.
Serve.

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Nutrition

Calories: 117kcal, Carbohydrates: 14g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 7g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 2g, Trans Fat: 0.01g, Cholesterol: 0.3mg, Sodium: 49mg, Potassium: 110mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 8g, Vitamin A: 26IU, Vitamin C: 4mg, Calcium: 11mg, Iron: 3mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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