I spent all night long making these little critters for my son's Christmas party tomorrow. My back hurts. My legs hurt. But I'm going to be raking up the Mommy Points, buddy!
These chocolate mice are actually easy to make - I just made a lot more than enough for just a class because I used them for teacher gifts too (along with chocolate covered pretzels and chocolate covered potato chips - I don't want to see chocolate for a while now).
Christmas Mice
Drain a jar of stemmed cherries; count the cherries. Then unwrap that number of Hershey's Kisses. Buy a bag of slivered almonds and chocolate bark. (You'll also need a tube of red icing gel.)
Make an assembly line of: melted chocolate bark, cherries, chocolate kisses, slivered almonds, wax paper.
Dip the cherries in the melted chocolate bark, stick to the back of a Hershey's kiss, stick two slivered almonds in between the cherry and the kiss and sit it on the wax paper to dry.
If you're taking them somewhere for a party, it's best to do the faces after you arrive, if you can. (Then you don't have to worry about smudging during transporting - but I'm chancing it tomorrow.) Buy a tube of red icing gel (sold on the birthday cake aisle) and do two eyes and a nose.
Too cute to eat.
Posted by: Norma | December 23, 2006 at 03:21 PM
My friend brought me one of these. Very cute. =)
Posted by: Becky | December 26, 2006 at 03:37 AM
Oh! these chocolate mice was absolutely cute and seems really delicious. I am your son I will really appreciate your gift. Wish I can also taste it.
-fern-
Posted by: gifts philippines | June 04, 2009 at 02:31 AM
I agree it is too cute to eat,lol!
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Posted by: Ferrero Rocher philippines | May 04, 2010 at 01:57 AM
Made these for a party, they were huge hit. Everyone thought I spent hrs making them/asked me how I made them. Thought they were complicated. Only probl was I think they were too cute to eat! Got lots requests for recipe.
Can use pumpkin seeds/peanut halves if someone is alergic to nuts. Many variations on these as well.
Posted by: andy | November 09, 2011 at 03:24 PM