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These cute Strawberry Ladybugs with Oreos and dark chocolate make a delicious treat your kids will love and you only need a few simple ingredients!
This easy recipe featuring strawberries, dark chocolate, and Oreos is sure to be a hit. It’s perfect for lunchboxes, parties, and special occasions such as birthdays and Valentine’s Day.
Recipe Tip
Use tiny blueberries or chocolate chips for the ladybug dots for a fun twist.
Top these adorable ladybugs onto cakes, enjoy them with ice cream for an epic treat, or serve them as part of a fruit tray with all your favorite fruit and berries.
Recipe Tip
You can stick on antennae details using sprinkles if you like.
Strawberry Ladybugs Ingredients
- Strawberries: Look for similar sized, firm, bright red berries with a pointy shape.
- Dark chocolate: Use a good-quality baking chocolate with 55-70% cocoa solids (or your favorite chocolate chips if you’re in a pinch).
- Oreos: Use regular Oreos or similar chocolate biscuits.
- Candy eyes: Available in large supermarkets and baking shops. Use regular or mini-sized.
- Fresh basil: Or mint. You can omit.
How to Make Strawberry Ladybugs
- Prepare the ingredients: Halve the strawberries. Dry them on a paper towel. Melt the chocolate. Pour it in a bowl.
- Make the ladybugs: Dip the strawberry tips into the chocolate. Add candy eyes. Pour the chocolate into a piping utensil (or freezer bag with the corner snipped). Pipe the chocolate details and allow to set.
- Top the Oreos with chocolate, add the ladybugs and a fresh basil leaf. Allow to set. Serve.
Possible Variations
- Strawberries: Swap for small red apples or plums.
- Dark chocolate: Milk chocolate is a great alternative.
- Oreos: Swap for any round biscuits you prefer. You can omit the biscuits, too.
- Candy eyes: Make your own using white chocolate and sprinkles or use small chocolate balls. You can also omit eyes,they will still be cute.
FAQs
I always melt chocolate in a small pan over low heat, but you have to stir constantly to prevent it from burning. You can also use a double boiler or microwave.
Be sure to dry the strawberries with a paper towel to keep the surface as dry as possible.
Depending on the temperature in your kitchen, it will take about 15-30 minutes. You can transfer the ladybugs to the fridge or freezer if you are in a rush and want to speed up the process.
A fun way would be arrange arugula on a platter and place the chocolate ladybugs on top. You can also enjoy them as part of a dessert tray with my chocolate butterflies and strawberry bunnies.
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Strawberry Ladybugs with Oreos
Equipment
Ingredients
- 5 strawberries, pointed
- 100 grams dark chocolate
- 20 candy eyes, mini
- 10 Oreo cookies
- 10 fresh basil leaves
Instructions
- Melt the dark chocolate.
- Place the chocolate in a heat safe 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 little 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
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
