Chocolate Cherry Mice

These Merry Mice are a fun no-bake treat to add to your holiday cookie tin or tray, requiring just 4 ingredients and a dip in melted chocolate!

Here are the ingredients you’ll need:

•  Stemmed Maraschino Cherries
•  Hershey’s Kisses
•  Chocolate Chips, semi-sweet or bittersweet and white
•  Sliced Almonds

• Drain your cherries and blot them as dry as possible with a paper towel.
•  Unwrap your kisses and pair up similarly-sized almond slices for ears.
•  Melt your chocolate chips according to the package directions.

Microwaves vary, so start with 50% power in 30 second bursts,

repeating and stirring until melted, to prevent scorched chocolate.

Alternatively you can use candy melts / wafers or almond bark for dipping.

• Hold the cherry by the stem and dip in melted chocolate to cover completely, letting the excess chocolate drip back into your bowl.
•  Place dipped cherry on a piece of parchment paper.
•  Place the flat bottom of a chocolate kiss to the rounded bottom of dipped cherry.
•  Hold briefly until kiss adheres, then position 2 almond slices for ears, while the chocolate is still warm.

When chocolate kiss has set, paint on mouse eyes and nose with a dab of melted white chocolate, using a wooden skewer or toothpick.

I already had the white chocolate chips but you could use white decorating gel to pipe on nose and eyes if you prefer.

You can serve or gift these Merry Mice in mini cupcake liners or

let your mice run amok in your tin of holiday treats. :)

The cookie tin is also filled with  No Bake Peanut Butter-Chocolate Swirl Bars. Easy and irresistible!

You can find 20+ recipes to bake your spirits bright and make your holidays extra sweet ,  HERE. You’ll also find some easy no-bake treats and food gift ideas too!