Sweet and Salty Holiday Treat

If you are looking for a sweet and salty easy treat, I have just the recipe for you. Growing up my mom made these delicious treats for every holiday. They are so good and provide that sweet and salty taste you want to have. They are so simple to make, and here is how:

First things first, you will need:

• Your choice of Hershey Kisses. I made some with the hugs, mint truffle, and the candy cane. (I tried the caramel filled ones and they did not turn out well-very messy! I think that plain Hershey Kisses are too much milk chocolate. But try what you want!)
• Holiday M&M's. It's Christmas time, so I will be using those. However, my favorite are the Easter ones. You can also use any kind of M&M you want! I used peanut butter ones in the past, those were pretty good.
• Pretzels. You can also use whatever shape of pretzel you like. I just use the original "tiny twist" pretzels.
• An oven!

The most important part to this treat is that you preheat the oven!!!!!!!!!!

Set the oven to 200F or 93C. It is so important that you let the oven warm up first. I made the mistake of putting them in right away and the kisses never melted, they just got rock solid and burned.

Next get a flat pan. This recipe requires a full day's use of a pan. So if you are doing other activities that you need a pan for, you may want to wait to do these late at night so they can sit over night or get some cheap pans at the dollar store (my favorite place on earth).









Pour pretzels onto the pan and pull out the broken ones. Eat the broken ones or throw them back in the bag for later eating.














Unwrap the kisses and put them on the center of the pretzel. Continue until your pan is full!
I recommend that you do NOT mix types of kisses! They melt at different rates and that just gets confusing and difficult.









After the oven is heated up, place the pan carefully into the oven. Turn the light on if you have one.
Find something easy to do near your oven because these babies melt quick! It is kind of fun to watch them melt... so you might try that too.

Once the tips of the kisses have begun to sag, take them out of the oven.







Drop one M&M on each pretzel bite. I like to try and get it right on the tip of the kiss and push it toward the center of the pretzel. Be careful because the treats are very gooey. So you don't have to push too hard on the M&Ms.

Once each bite is covered with an M&M, you let them sit. It takes a while, but eventually they will get hard. An option for faster cooling is to put them in the fridge. Sometimes when you do this, however, your treats will get white lines on them. You can always give it a try and see what happens.

 These are the Candy Cane Kisses pictured to the right.


After they have cooled, you can pop them off the tray and serve! I put mine in a poly treat bag that is Christmas Decorated and tie them shut with ribbon. A perfectly easy Christmas Gift!


I hope you enjoyed my tutorial! Please leave feedback or questions!

- Happy Crafting!
                  Ali