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Home ☢ family activities ☢ How to make candy chocolate mice — The Seventh Day of Christmas #12DaysofChristmas

How to make candy chocolate mice — The Seventh Day of Christmas #12DaysofChristmas

December 31, 2012 By: Lauren Ivy Chiong35 Comments

Chocolate Candy Mice, Christmas Traditions, Chocolate Candy Mice, Holiday Traditions, Family Traditions

When you think of Christmas, mice might not be the first thing that pops into your head.  Yet mice figure prominently in several Christmas stories.  Who could forget the line in the 1823 poem “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”: “Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse”?

Christmas Traditions, Christmas Decorations, Holiday Traditions, Family TraditionsMice are featured even more prominently in E.T.A. Hoffman’s classic Christmas tale “The Nutcracker.” Tchaikovksy adapted the story in 1892 into the ballet that has become a holiday tradition for families around the world.  In that story, the brave Nutcracker must defeat a mouse king and his army of mice.

We have started a new holiday tradition at my house by making candy chocolate mice with a cherry center.  The mice make a wonderful display at holiday parties, but could be a fun addition to a party table at any time of year.

Christmas Traditions, Holiday Traditions, Family Traditions, Chocolate Candy Mice, Each mouse is made of a Hershey’s kiss, with ears made of almond slivers, a chocolate-covered cherry body and tail made from a cherry stem.

You will need:

–Hershey’s chocolate kisses

–Dark chocolate candy bar,

–Milk chocolate candy bar

–Sliced almonds

–Maraschino cherries, stems on

–Decorating gel white frosting tube

Christmas Traditions, Holiday Traditions, Family Traditions, Chocolate Candy Mice, –Marble Mix’ins

–Décor Nonpareils (decorative sprinkles)

 

 

To get ready:

Christmas Traditions, Holiday Traditions, Family Traditions, Chocolate Candy Mice, –Drain 20 maraschino cherries and dry them.

–Cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil.

–Space out 20 Hershey’s kisses on the cookie sheet

–Put some of the Marble Mix’ins and décor tiny beads on saucers.

Christmas Traditions, Holiday Traditions, Family Traditions, Chocolate Candy Mice, –Carefully choose sets of matching sliced almonds for the ears.

Christmas Traditions, Holiday Traditions, Family Traditions, Chocolate Candy Mice, –Melt the chocolate bars together at 30 second intervals and stir after each.

 

 

 

To assemble mice:

–Dip a cherry into the melted chocolate and use a spoon to cover the area around the stem.

Christmas Traditions, Holiday Traditions, Family Traditions, Chocolate Candy Mice, –Quickly stick the wide base of the kiss to the bottom of the chocolate-covered cherry.  The point of the kiss will be the nose and the stem of the cherry will become the mouse tail. Set the kiss mouse head/cherry body and tail in position on the tray.

–Quickly position two almond slice ears in between the head and body. The melted chocolate will hold them in place.

–Repeat for each mouse.

–When all the mice are assembled, squeeze out a bit of the frosting gel.

–With a toothpick, pick up a bit of gel as glue and use the point to pick up a tiny dot. Position on the kiss for a mouse eye, and repeat for the second eye.

–Squeeze a dot of gel on the tip of the Hershey’s kiss and place a small Mix’in on top of it for the mouse nose.

–Repeat the assembly process for the rest of the mice.

Presentation:

–When all the mice are set, place a large wedge of cheddar cheese on a platter.

–Arrange the mice all around the cheese.

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Comments

  1. michelle warner says

    January 2, 2013 at 12:45 am

    this is awsome thanks so much

    Reply
    • LIChiong says

      January 2, 2013 at 1:44 am

      You’re welcome, Michelle! Let me know if you get a chance to try them out. Thanks for stopping by!
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  2. Kimberly Listrud says

    January 2, 2013 at 1:34 am

    They are so cute! I bet they are yummy too. 🙂 Thanks so much for showing how to do this. Happy New Year!

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    • LIChiong says

      January 2, 2013 at 1:41 am

      I’m so glad you like them–they are a lot of fun to make. Happy New Year to you too, Kimberly!
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  3. Connor Harley says

    January 2, 2013 at 7:04 am

    Wow Great Idea Lauren! You can decorate them all over the dining table and people can just munch on them right away. I bet they taste good as well. Thank you for sharing.
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  4. Elisebet F says

    January 2, 2013 at 6:24 pm

    These are so stinkin’ cute!!!!
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  5. Clancy Harrrison says

    January 2, 2013 at 7:21 pm

    How cute! I cannot wait to make these with my kids. They will LOVE them.

    Reply
  6. Angie Agerter says

    January 2, 2013 at 7:36 pm

    I have to admit the first thing I thought was EEEK mice! lol But they are so stinkin’ cute! Love them!
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  7. Laura S. says

    January 3, 2013 at 12:26 am

    Sounds very good but not sure I can get past the mice!

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  8. Choya Porter says

    January 3, 2013 at 2:46 am

    Too cute and they really do look like mice. So creative this would be fun to make with my kids 8)

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  9. jheylo says

    January 3, 2013 at 8:55 pm

    wow! very creative and thanks for sharing. will bookmark this
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  10. Aayna says

    January 4, 2013 at 5:03 pm

    The very idea of Chocolate mice is so adorable. Quite a creative recipe. Thanks for sharing it.
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  11. Fatima says

    January 6, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    They look adorable, taste yummy and are a treat for everybody. Thanks for sharing this on a merry event.

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  12. Jo-Ann Brightman says

    January 16, 2013 at 7:35 pm

    This is really cute and a fun idea for any holiday

    Reply
  13. Rosie says

    January 17, 2013 at 4:38 pm

    How cute!!!!!! I had seen some mouse candies that looked interesting for the holiday, but were a huge piece of work so didn’t do it. These are easy and I’m sure they’d get eaten. I was thinking of adding a few whimsies like this to a cookie tray. Also they look like fun to make with your niece! so I can get multiple purposes going on here. Thx for posting!!!

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  14. lisa says

    January 17, 2013 at 6:34 pm

    Mice creep me out. These are so cute though and I love chocolate. Thanks for the recipe.

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  15. Maddie K. says

    January 27, 2013 at 1:16 am

    OMGosh, those are so cute! I have to remember this!

    Reply
  16. Vikki Cousin says

    January 28, 2013 at 2:22 pm

    That is so cute. Thank you for sharing this recipe.

    Reply
  17. Stephanie from CT says

    January 29, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    These are so cute …. they will make good valentines mice too!

    Reply
  18. Darby says

    January 30, 2013 at 1:19 pm

    Super cute, thanks for sharing!!

    Reply
  19. Bo says

    January 30, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    These are so adorable! I’m going to have to try making these.

    Reply
  20. Brenda Burgess says

    February 2, 2013 at 5:38 pm

    Those chocolate mice are so creative.

    Reply
  21. Sam Dock says

    February 4, 2013 at 3:23 pm

    These are so simple to make but still soo cute! I have never seen these before I may have to try them for a family get together sometime.

    Reply
  22. KIMBERLY DAVIS says

    February 11, 2013 at 7:38 am

    This is to cute for words. I just love it!

    Reply
  23. Immaculate Copeland says

    February 15, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    Soooo cute! I sooo wanna learn how to make these.

    Reply
  24. Beth says

    February 16, 2013 at 2:07 am

    these are too precious … need to write this recipe down. thanks for sharing. ( :
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  25. ANN*H says

    February 17, 2013 at 1:46 am

    These are so cute. They would be nice for a Halloween party too. Thanks for showing us how to make these cute little mice. And I love you fathers quote . Good idea .

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  26. denise smith says

    February 19, 2013 at 4:14 pm

    they look good my whole family will love these

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  27. Meka says

    February 19, 2013 at 7:49 pm

    My mum got a kick outta these.

    Reply
  28. Sherry J says

    February 19, 2013 at 10:12 pm

    Thanks for this,they look good.

    Reply
  29. Alyson L says

    February 21, 2013 at 10:33 pm

    SO cute!! Never would have thought of this!

    Reply
  30. Maddie K. says

    March 10, 2013 at 5:48 pm

    I showed these to my husband today and he said “when ya gonna make em?” LOL.

    Reply
  31. Ruth chu says

    March 21, 2013 at 4:01 am

    i know christmas has passed but these would be adorable and easy to make

    Reply
  32. Miranda says

    November 12, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    Ah! So cute! and they look delicious too! Can’t wait to make em 🙂

    Reply
  33. vaty44 says

    March 28, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    they look nice great all family will and like it

    Reply

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