5 Easy Christmas Treats

By: Loretta Arnold

Break Studios Contributing Writer

These 5 easy Christmas treats will add delicious flavors and more reason to celebrate Christmas. With a couple of ingredients, you can easily create these Christmas treats.

Chocolate Christmas Pretzel

Ingredients needed:

  • 10 Pretzels
  • 5 Hershey's Christmas Kisses (colors red, green and white)
  1. Place the Hershey's Christmas Kisses into a microwave bowl.  Cover the top with a napkin or paper towel, heat until the Hershey's Christmas Kisses are soft.  Lay the pretzels flat on a flat plate.
  2. Turn the chocolate once.  Pour the chocolate over one side of each pretzel.  Cool for five minutes. 

Chocolate Christmas Balls

Ingredients and items needed:

  • Soft Cookie Dough
  • Bag of Hershey's Christmas Kisses
  1. Heat the oven to the appropriate temperature on the cookie dough package.  Lightly flour a flat pan and gather a medium to large plate.  Flatten a small ball of dough onto the center of the plate and place a Hershey's Christmas Kiss inside and roll into a ball.  Place onto the pan.
  2. Cook as directed on the cookie dough instructions.  To check if it is done, as timed, stick a fork into the cookie dough and without anything sticking, that means they are done.  Take out the cookies and allow to cool (between ten to twenty minutes).

Christmas Nut Wraps

Ingredients needed:

  • 1/2 Cup of Nuts (Your Choice)
  • Soft Cookie Dough
  • 1/4 Cup of Flour
  1. Heat the oven to the temperature as instructed by the cookie dough packaging.  Flatten the cookie dough onto a dish of sprinkled flour, turn over and sprinkle nuts along the flat dough until covered.  Roll the edges back into the center of the dough so the nuts are trapped inside.
  2. Lightly flour a cookie sheet, place equally apart.  Cook as directed by the cookie dough instructions. 

Christmas Coco Balls

Ingredients needed:

  • 1/4 Cup Shredded Coconut
  • Soft Cookie Dough
  1. Spread the shredded coconut on a plate.  Roll a small amount of dough into a ball and roll it on top of the coconut.  The ball should be covered with coconut and placed on another plate.  Continue with another until complete. 
  2. Lightly butter the inside of a cookie sheet.  Sprinkle flour onto the sheet then shake the sheet and empty loose flour.  Place the cookies onto the sheet.  Cook as directed on cookie dough label. 

Christmas Choco Nuts

Ingredients needed:

  • Six Hershey's Christmas Kisses
  • 1/2 Cup of Nuts (Any Kind)
  1. Place approximately six Hershey's Christmas Kisses into a microwave bowl.  Cook until melted.  Don't overcook. 
  2. Place the nuts into a flat dish.  Spread them evenly whether touching or not.  Turn the chocolate once and lightly pour it over neatly arranged nuts sitting on the plate.  Allow to cool.
Posted on: Nov. 24, 2010