Chocolate Cherry Mice

Steve brought home one of these adorable little mice from his Christmas party at work. I looked at it and said, "I can do that." Well, it turned out to be harder than it looked, but I made two dozen of them for the Christmas party we went to with our Gold Wing Riders group, and got many compliments for them!

And the best thing is that I don't like cherries so I won't eat them up!

Bought cherries, sliced almonds, and oreos at Meijer. Started off twisting the oreos apart. That didn't work so well. So used a knife (at Steve's suggestion) which worked much better. I might observe here that the picture (the one Steve brought home) shows a double stuff oreo and I bought regular ones. I think the double stuff will work better.

Unwrapped two dozen hershey kisses (ok, unwrapped a few more than that which quickly disappeared...) and melted a 12-oz bag of chocolate chips. Then dipped a cherry in the melted chocolate, put it on the oreo, and quickly attached the hershey kiss and the almond ears. WRONG! Discovered that trying to do it all at the same time resulted in a chocolate mess.

Dipped the rest of the cherries in chocolate, put them on a cookie sheet, and placed them in the freezer for 10 minutes. Ah, much better. Now - put a little melted chocolate on the cherry, attach the almonds and kiss, and place them on the oreos. I put them back into the freezer for a few minutes to set the new chocolate.

Then took them out of the freezer to decorate -- needed eyes and a little Christmas greenery. I had so many partial tubes of decorating frosting that I decided not to buy any. The eyes and red part of the greenery went off without a hitch. The green was a different story. Seemed a little hard in the tube and wasn't squeezing out very well. So decided that a short burst of microwaving (10 seconds) might help. 10 seconds was about 9 seconds too much, I think, as the tube was hot and the insides were liquidy.

Put it in the freezer for a few minutes to solidify. Afterwards, it was more solid but enough so that I had a lot of trouble getting it out of the tube. Steve actually went out and brought his vise grips in so that I could get enough green frosting out to finish the job.

So there you have it, the story of the chocolate cherry mice. More work than I thought, but the compliments were worth it.