I think these little mice are the cutest and I think the Newmans are going to make these for neighbors gifts this year. (If you are a neighbor of the Newmans you must stop reading right now.) If you decide to join us I have one little tip: instead of dipping the cherries in chocolate that you have melted over your own stove in a pot that you will now have to wash including shortening that you had to buy just for this recipe and now you have a lot left over..... I suggest looking in the produce section of your favorite grocery store for the microwavable chocolate that I have used to make chocolate covered strawberries dozens of times. There is NO mess and it is DELICIOUS!
Do you have a simple fun recipe? Send it over. Another day we will call for classic holiday recipes, the ones for family looks forward to, the ones that mean Christmas.
Christmas Eve Mice
In a microwave or heavy saucepan, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Holding each cherry by the stem, dip in melted chocolate, then press onto the bottom of a chocolate kiss. Place on the cream filling of cookie, with cherry stem extending beyond cookie edge.
For ears, place slivered almonds between the cherry and kiss. Refrigerate until set. With green gel, pipe holly leaves on the cream. With red gel, pipe holly berries between leaves and pipe eyes on each chocolate kiss. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.
SERVINGS: 24
METHOD: Chill
TIME: Prep: 25 min. + chilling
Ingredients:
- 24 double-stuffed cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies
- 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 teaspoons shortening
- 24 red maraschino cherries with stems, well drained
- 24 milk chocolate kisses
- 48 sliced almonds
- 1 small tube green decorative icing gel
- 1 small tube red decorative icing gel
Directions:
Carefully twist cookies apart; set aside the halves with cream filling. Save plain halves for another use.In a microwave or heavy saucepan, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Holding each cherry by the stem, dip in melted chocolate, then press onto the bottom of a chocolate kiss. Place on the cream filling of cookie, with cherry stem extending beyond cookie edge.
For ears, place slivered almonds between the cherry and kiss. Refrigerate until set. With green gel, pipe holly leaves on the cream. With red gel, pipe holly berries between leaves and pipe eyes on each chocolate kiss. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.
1 comment:
Those mice are cute and festive and Mary Margaret wants to be your neighbor! Here are some additional Christmas tips:
1)Hang your Christmas cards that you receive during the holidays on a tree with cute ribbon. Pray for the families as you hang them on the tree and then during the year scroll thru them daily during your Quiet Time and pray for the families again...
2)Put out a Christmas puzzle on your den coffee table to work during the holidays. I picked up one for our family on sale at the end of the season last Christmas. Slowing down enough to work puzzles is why we are working so hard in November, right?
3)When I go thru the catalogs I rip out the page of whatever I might actually buy for someone so that I don't have the entire catalog to keep up with and I put it in my Christmas notebook with a note of who it would be a good gift for...I make sure the phone # or website is at the bottom of the page. Whether I purchase the gift from the catalog or not, the gift idea is in my notebook.
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