I know I have mentioned these treats before, but let me tell you again just how amazingly awesome they are. I wish I could take credit for the idea, but alas, it was another Pinterest find.

Here’s how you do it. Take a bunch of pretzels (regular shape, or roundy, or square, which is what I can only ever find in the store). Spread them out in a single layer on a baking tray. Put a Hershey Kiss (or Hug, or Peppermint Kiss, or whatever you like!) on each one. Bake them in the oven @ 200° for about 5 minutes. Just enough to get the Kiss soft and squishy. Take them out and press an M&M (plain, dark, peanut, peanut butter, it doesn’t matter, they are all delicious!) into each one. Done! The hardest part is not eating all of the ingredients along the way. Employ your strong willpower, or, if you are like me and my kids, just buy extra ingredients!

Packaging up the treats for tomorrow's party. Gotta get them out of this house ASAP! :)

I have done this twice and I have a learned a few lessons about what comes next. The process is easy, but here are two things not to do. 1) Don’t try to rush the cooling process by putting the whole tray in the freezer. This causes the chocolate Kisses to separate from the pretzels. Still delicious, but not as presentable. And 2) Don’t leave your trays uncovered during the cooling process. That’s what I did this time (instead of the freezer) and by the next day the chocolate kisses were getting that white “old chocolate” look. Still delicious, don’t worry, but even less presentable. This batch is going to the classmates, so I’m sure they won’t care, but I wonder how many parents are going to look at them and think I gave out old candy. Oh well. Finally 3) This is unverified, but I think maybe doing them on the Stoneware causes chocolate/pretzel separation as well. I’m not sure why this would be, but we did three trays this time, all cooled on the counter, and the only treats that separated were from the one Stoneware pan. I’ll have to verify this next time we make treats. Easter…? :)

Close up. Still yummy, but not quite as pretty.