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Chocolate Covered Cherry Christmas Mice

December 6, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner 17 Comments

chocolate covered cherry Christmas mice - Fun to make and eat!
I’ve been making these chocolate covered cherry Christmas mice several years now. They are fun to make and always a big hit at every holiday gathering.

 

Ingredients (makes 18-24)

8 oz Melting Chocolate (I used Ghirardelli semi-sweet)
1 medium jar Maraschino Cherries with stems
Mini Chocolate Chips
Hershey’s Kisses
Wax Paper
Red Gel Icing

chocolate covered cherry christmas mice - ingredients

Method

Melt chocolate in microwave or in double boiler.

how to make chocolate covered cherry christmas mice

Dip cherry in melted chocolate and press against the bottom of a Hershey’s kiss. The melted hot chocolate will stick to the kiss.
Place on wax paper. While still hot, add two mini chocolate chips on the seam between the kiss and cherry, pressing the chips into the melted chocolate. These are the mice ears.

chocolate covered cherry chocolate mice - drying

Let dry on wax paper. (Yes, I used parchment paper coated in Pam because I was out of wax paper…)

Add a tiny dab of red gel icing to the tip of the kiss for the mouse nose.

chocolate covered cherry christmas mice - cute red noses!

You can trim the “tails”. Or not.

Store in an airtight container or in the refrigerator.

chocolate covered cherry christmas mice - adorable!

Aren’t they adorable?!

Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

…”Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Twas the Night Before Christmas

Filed Under: Food & Recipes, Holiday Tagged With: chocolate, Desserts, Food, holiday recipes

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Comments

  1. All That Glitters says

    December 6, 2013 at 9:07 am

    Awww cutest little guys ever! Pinning for later!

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  2. Corinne Rodrigues says

    December 6, 2013 at 9:09 am

    Too cute, Talya! Can you parcel some out to India, please. 😛

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  3. Stephanie says

    December 6, 2013 at 10:13 am

    Truth: mice freak me out. Like bad. But this?? Makes me want to gobble them up.

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  4. Gale says

    December 6, 2013 at 1:38 pm

    So cute! I love mice…used to have pets mice as a kid. But these look just delicious!

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  5. Taylor Bradford says

    December 6, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    I love these!!! I only wish I weren’t iced in! 😉 I would so go to the grocery store and get to making these!! 🙂

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      December 7, 2013 at 6:20 am

      They are so fun Taylor!

      Reply
  6. Aleshea says

    December 6, 2013 at 7:49 pm

    Mice freak me out so bad. Maybe it’s cause someone chased me down the halls of my old H.S. so many years ago. But anyways these look so cute and I’ll have to try them. I can handle edible mice. HA!

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      December 7, 2013 at 6:20 am

      me too!

      Reply
  7. Lita says

    December 7, 2013 at 6:03 am

    Almost too cute to eat! Almost…. I’d love it if you linked these to Saturday Dishes. We’re featuring Christmas Dishes today.

    Wishes for tasty dishes,
    Linda @ Tumbleweed Contessa
    http://www.tumbleweedcontessa.com

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      December 7, 2013 at 6:20 am

      Thank you! I did:))

      Reply
  8. Jamie H says

    December 9, 2013 at 3:13 pm

    So cute! Stopping by from the Sweet Tea Social.

    Reply
  9. Suzy says

    December 10, 2013 at 1:03 am

    Too cute and I love cherries too.

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  10. Keren: Fabulous farmlife says

    December 11, 2013 at 5:59 am

    Those are just too adorable. Thank-you for sharing and linking your wonderful post to “The Most Fabulous Link-up Jol” I am already following you on a variety of different social media.
    Keren (From the blog: Fabulous-farmliving)

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  11. Ankita Ranotra says

    December 12, 2013 at 12:02 am

    very innovative…i will definitely try them…they are a treat for a kid’s eyes….
    http://www.ankitaranotra.blogspot.in

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  12. Lyn Fenwick says

    January 30, 2014 at 9:48 am

    Slow to read this post…but I’ll share a story. Every year for Christmas my father bought Mother a box of chocolate covered cherries. I don’t see them in the stores at Christmas today, but then they always appeared at Christmas, and Mother loved them. As for your mice, it would have been such fun to make them as a surprise for her. She was terrified of mice and was regularly teased in a variety of ways by my father, and especially by my brother, with little tricks involving mice. These would have been the trick to end all tricks!

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  14. Barbara Tate says

    December 2, 2016 at 11:21 am

    Make some for Christmas this year – 2016.

    Reply

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