Looking for an easy holiday treat that is sure to impress? Chocolate Cherry Mice are the way to go! These sweet chocolate covered cherries with an adorable mouse face are a candy kids love to make…and eat. Christmas Mice Candy also make great place settings or gifts for family and friends.

Christmas Mice Candy

These edible chocolate cherry Christmas mice are a fun project for the kids to help with when they’re out of school on vacation. The candy mice get their bodies from a chocolate dipped cherry, with a Hershey’s Kiss face and little peanut ears. Simply add a red hot candy for the nose and black icing eyes and you have a plate full of adorable little candy mice your children will be begging to make and eat. Why not make an assembly line and ask the kids to help make these cute little critters?

Tips for Making Hershey’s Kisses Chocolate Cherry Mice

• You need Maraschino Cherries with stems. The stems make the mice tails. So keep looking until you find them.
• Do you know someone with a peanut allergy? You can easily adjust the recipe and swap out the peanut ears with sliced almonds or even mini marshmallows.
• If you don’t have time to wait for the chocolate to harden, simply place them on some wax paper and freeze them for 10 minutes.

How To Make Christmas Mice Candy

Yields: 15 servings
Prep: 15 minutes| Cook Time: 0 minutes | Total Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• 15 Hershey’s Kisses
• 15 Red Hots candies
• 15 Maraschino cherries (WITH stems)
• ½ cup Chocolate chips
• 30 Peanut halves
• Small tube of black icing

Directions:

1. Line a baking sheet with wax paper and set aside.
2. Place the cherries on a paper towel-lined plate and pat them dry to get as much moisture off of them as possible.
3. Melt the chocolate chips according to package directions.
4. Holding the stem of a cherry, dip it into the melted chocolate. Place the chocolate coated cherry on its side on the prepared baking sheet.
5. Press a Hershey’s Kiss into the opposite side of the cherry from the stem.
6. Add two peanut halves in the top between the cherry and Hershey’s Kiss for the mouse’s ears.
7. Add a dab of melted chocolate on the back of a red hot and place it on the end of the Hershey’s Kiss for the mouse’s nose.
8. Use the black icing to dot two eyes on the Hershey’s Kiss to complete the mouse. Repeat this process with the remaining ingredients.

Are you going to make these adorable Christmas mice candy recipe this holiday season?

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