Starry-Eyed Christmas Cookies
Submitted by the wicked noodle on December 3, 2009 – 10:18 am15 Comments
For this month’s cookie recipe I wanted to choose something fun and easy enough for even the smallest children to help make. These are the tastiest Christmas “cookies” I make, and since they’re also the easiest, they get made often during the holidays. I’ve already made two batches and they’ve already disappeared!
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Starry-Eyed Christmas Cookies
- 1 bag waffle or star-shaped pretzels
- 1 bag holiday M&M’s plain or peanut butter chocolate candies (red & green)
- 2 – 3 bags Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Kisses
Directions
- Preheat oven to 170 degrees.
- Open the bags of pretzels and remove all the unbroken pretzels.
- Place them on waxed paper-lined cookie sheets in a single layer.
- Unwrap Hershey’s Kisses, place one on each pretzel, repeat for an entire cookie sheet.
- Place cookie sheet in the preheated oven and “bake” for six minutes.
- Immediately upon removing from the oven, place one M-n-M on top of semi-melted Hershey’s Kiss.
- Place entire cookie sheet in refrigerator until cookies are set.
- Place in cute holiday bags or on a cookie tray for your guests to enjoy!
Neat. I've never seen star shaped pretzels before. I need to keep an eye for those.
Where did you find the star pretzels? These are the cutest mock Christmas cookies! I like chcolate dipped pretzels, and what a fun, festive alternative. These are going on my Christmas baking list. I found your blog through twitter.
Thanks, Jenn!
Julia…I found the pretzels at the grocery store the other day – they're the UTZ brand. If you can't find them in your store you can order them here: http://www.utzsnacks.com/store/p-22-family-size-b…
I found this "cookie" recipe somewhere a few years ago and I make it EVERY Christmas now! This year my little girls helped with it and it was so fun. It's a great recipe, especially when you're short on time and just want to mass produce. ;-)
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I should also note that the UTZ pretzels come in a bag with stars, bells and christmas trees. I only made the cookies with the stars, not the bells or trees, because I thought the chocolate might seep through since the "holes" were much bigger. That will happen with regular shaped pretzels, too, which is why you want either the stars or something waffle shaped. This would also be fun over Easter with pastel colored m&m's, too! :-)
Those are adorable and so easy! Thanks for sharing : )
Beautiful!
Too cute, I have seen something similar with Rolos!!
We make these every year using round pretzels…never seen the star shapes before!
These are very clever and sure to be a hit! GREG
my 2 year old has been obsessed with "helping" me in the kitchen lately (ie, standing on a chair spooning flour into bowls because that's the extent of her skills). But this is one we can definitely do together, so I'll give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
I've made these a couple of years ago when my girlfriends came over, except I used the regular shaped pretzels. I also used the regular Hershey's Kisses and also the striped ones. They were super easy and a total hit!
These are wonderful! You can also use Rollos. They give it a nice carmel sweet and salty taste. Merry Christmas!
Carrie
I just tried these! I put them on square pretzels cause I couldn't find any star ones. But they turned out delish!! What a great, simple recipe. Perfect for doing with kids! :-) Thank you for sharing it!!
These cookies are simple but really festive. I have recently been looking up Christmas Dessert Recipes which I know my seem crazy but Thanksgiving is just around the corner so before we know it, Christmas will be here too. I work with Better Recipes so I am constantly reviewing recipes but the Holiday season is my favorite so I'm always looking for recipes. I especially like this recipe because it can be prepared within a matter of minutes and would be great for one of my kids class holiday party.
Made this for the first time today, and everyone loved them! Thanks very much for this easy and wonderful recipe.