Chocolate Christmas Mice Cookies

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 24 oreo double stuff cookies
• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate
• 1/2 teaspoon butter
• 1 ounce paraffin wax, chopped (see notes)
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips (see notes)
• 1/2 cup sliced almonds
• 1 (3 ounce) package red decorating gel (clear)
• 1 (3 ounce) package green decorating gel (clear)
• 24 cherries
• 1 (8 ounce) package , hershey's kisses

Recipe

• 1 carefully twist oreo cookies apart. set aside the ones with the cream filling on them; save plain halves for another use. (you could make crumbs for pie crust).
• 2 in microwave, melt chocolate chip, paraffin and butter; stir until smooth.
• 3 holding cherry by stem, dip in melted chocolate, then press onto the bottom of a chocolate kiss.
• 4 place cherry and kiss onto the cream filling of the cookie. let stem extend over the edge.
• 5 make ears for your mouse by placing sliced almonds between the cherry and the kiss (before the chocolate sets).
• 6 place in refrigerator until chocolate sets.
• 7 with green decorative gel, pipe holly leaves on cream of cookie by the mouse.
• 8 pipe holly berries between the leaves with the red gel.
• 9 pipe eyes on each chocolate kiss.
• 10 store in airtight container at room temperature.
• 11 tips:.
• 12 i used almond bark instead of the chocolate chips and eliminated the need for shortening.
• 13 maraschino cherries need to have stems and be well-drained.
• 14 keep chocolate hot by putting in a bowl over a steaming pan of water.
• 15 i used a teapot, took the lid off and placed my bowl over it after melting chocolate in microwave.
• 16 you can use a clean eyebrow tweezer or something else to grasp the cherries by the stems to dunk in chocolate.
• 17 make extras because everyone at your party will want one to take home to show around and to use as a pattern to make their own!