Chocolate Christmas Mice (or Anytime Mice)

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb cherries, with stems
• 1 lb hershey chocolate kiss
• semi-sweet chocolate chips, for melting
• sliced almonds
• icing (optional) or red-hot candies (optional)

Recipe

• 1 melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler and dip a cherriy into the chocolate, holding by the stem ("tail").
• 2 set cherry on its side on waxed paper. this is the mouse's body and tail.
• 3 while chocolate it still gooey, "glue" on a hershey's kiss to the mouse's body, with the bottom of the kiss touching the cherry and the pointy part pointing out, the opposite direction that the tail is pointing.
• 4 add sliced almonds in the seam for ears.
• 5 decorate with icing or red hots for eyes and nose.
• 6 repeat with the rest of the cherries, etc.