These are so easy, I almost feel guilty making them. A whole total of 6 steps…and the last one is to put them in a candy bowl. In all honesty, you might want to hide the Christmas Pretzel Kisses you want to eat. They tend to disappear quickly.
But they taste great…salty pretzel, sweet kiss, chocolate m&m….yum.
I put sprinkles on half of them and left the other half plain. I’m not sure which ones I like better.
One of my favorite things is that you can make them for any holiday. God knows that M&M brand makes special colored ones for every single holiday on the planet. I was going to do a post for each holiday…but that felt kind of like cheating.
If you’re looking for more holiday treats, check out the “Christmas & Peppermint” page. You can also put these in a little bag, and stick a Free Printable Christmas Gift Tag on them for a stocking stuffer.
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Christmas Pretzel Kisses
Ingredients
- 20-40 Small pretzels
- 20-40 Hershey's Kisses striped
- 20-40 Red and green M&M's
- Sprinkles optional
Instructions
- Place pretzels directly on cookie sheet. Place a striped kiss on the top of each one.
- Cook at 200° for 5 minutes precisely (in a preheated oven). The 5 min. is only if you used striped kisses. If you use solid ones (which I do not recommend), they will take longer.
- Press m&m directly in the center with light pressure. Make sure the “m” is face-down.
- If you desire, shake sprinkles over the pretzel kisses.
- Let harden at room temperature for at least 30 min. before moving! The kisses need to “re-harden.”
- Place in candy bowl. (Set aside the ones you want to eat before they disappear!)
Why do you recommend not using the solid Hershey’s kisses? I was wondering about using the caramel ones.
They don’t melt as well. It takes about an extra minute and they don’t melt as evenly. They’ll work…just won’t get quite as good a final product. I haven’t tried the caramel ones.
I used the milk chocolate because I tried three different store, two different companies and no hugs. They had the candy cane ones, but not everyone likes peppermint. And these were for a church party so here we are. The milk chocolate took approximately 7.5 minutes in 200 degree oven to get that glisten. First batch I did one minute extra at a time and pulled them at just over 7 minutes. My biggest problem with these is trying to put the M & M on the chocolate kiss. My fingers kept getting in the chocolate kiss and I had to wipe chocolate off my fingers almost every time or there would be chocolate smears on the next M & M, lol. I made 48 in the first batch and 87 in the second, one of which turned out to look like a mutant when my finger got stuck in the chocolate kiss and went airborne and fell on another….anyway, you get the picture. I let my son eat that one, lol.
I have the problem of finding some seasonal stuff too. I had one Muddy Buddies recipes (I think it was 4th of July) that used patriotic colored M&M’s and couldn’t find them after that one year.
Thanks for the instructions on the milk chocolate. I know I tested them and they melted a bit differently than the hugs. Hope your church party enjoyed them!