Daughter decided to make a food gift for all of her school friends this year for Christmas. She picked and easy, yummy recipe – M&M Hugged Pretzels. I helped her put the treat together. As we got started, she said, “Mom, aren’t you going to take pictures for your blog?” That’s Daughter, always thinking ahead.
Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees Fahrenheit
Gather the following ingredients:
Roundish pretzels - holiday shaped ones are also good - don't use sticks or rods
Hershey's Hugs - Don't mix Hugs & Kisses on the same pan. They melt at different rates.
M&M's - If going with a holiday theme, pick the appropriate color.
Line baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place pretzels on sheet & put a Hug on top of each.
Put baking sheets in oven and set timer for 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes, check to see if Hugs have melted enough. If not, leave in oven for another minute. (It took ours 6 minutes.)
Removed pan from oven. Place M&M on top of each melted Hug. Must be done fairly quickly - before chocolate sets.
When M&M's are all in place, put the baking sheet in a cool place to allow the chocolate to set. A refrigerator works, or, in our case, the back porch.
After the M&M Hugged Pretzels have cooled, go ahead and enjoy!
[December 30, 2008] NOTE! – We tried this recipe with Kisses last night and it didn’t work. The low temperature wouldn’t melt the Kisses. We kept them in the oven longer and turned up the heat, to no avail. We merely succeeded in drying out the Kisses, ruining the whole batch. In looking for a solution online, we found that we should have set the oven temperature to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and left the Kissed pretzels in for about 3 minutes. We’re thinking that the reason Kisses don’t melt at a lower temp is that they don’t have as much cocoa butter in them as other chocolate does.
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Looks rather tasty, but get this, I don’t even have an oven, so I have to imagine how good it would be to eat up one or 20 of those.
I always pick the wrong time to try and quit eating chocolate.
You should be able to make these in the microwave. Really, the only cooking involved is melting the Hugs into a lumpy puddle. That’s gotta take mere seconds in the ‘wave.
I’m not helping your resolve to quit eating chocolate, am I? 🙂
This is an excellent idea. I think I’m going to do this with the grandkids on Christmas Day to kind of pass the time. Granddaughter LOVES pretzels. Thanks for sharing this.
This is a great recipe for kids. Easy with immediate results. Have fun with your grandkids, Joy!
Okay, now I’m hungry. 🙂
Cool recipe!
I melted the Hershey Kisses in the oven at 275 degrees for 3 minutes and they were just right when they came out.
Another lesson I learned is to leave them on the counter to reharden at room temperature. I originally put them in the fridge to harden and they didn’t look nice, kind of grey and dull. I won’t do that again.
Thanks for the tips, manorbooks!
I love these things!! We use the waffle looking pretzels and just chocolate wafers we get at a store near out house. Have never tried Hershey kisses!! I think I will go buy the stuff I need to make some!! 🙂
Hi, Faith – Have you realized that your last name is incredibly appropriate for this post? 🙂 The Hershey kisses are fab with these pretzels.
MMMmmm…these are so good! My Aunt does them w/Rolo’s & M&Ms and they’re pretty amazing too!
they are also delicious with a rolo on the pretzel and when they come out of oven put a p ecan on top
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