Pretzel M&M Hugs

These Pretzel M&M Hugs are festive little chocolate treats! They’re simple to make, use solely 3 substances and you’ll simply change up the colours for any vacation!

pink and red valentine's day pretzel M&M hugs in a white ruffle bowl

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Straightforward Vacation Deal with

These Pretzel M&M Hugs are such tasty little issues. The candy and salty mixture is all the time a preferred one and these are not any exception. And it helps that they’re tremendous simple to make too. All you want is about quarter-hour and you may make these.

Maybe among the best issues about this deal with is that they’re really easy to vary up for various holidays. Swap out the colour of the M&Ms and also you’ve just about acquired all of them lined. And their cute little transportable dimension makes them simple to package deal up for presents and excellent for snacking.

These are excellent for adults and children! They’re simple sufficient to get youngsters concerned in making them and what child wouldn’t desire a tasty chocolate snack?

a pile of pretzel M&M hugs on a silicon baking mat lined baking sheet

Components

With solely 3 substances to assemble, you’ll be making these very quickly.

Sq. pretzels
Hershey’s Hugs
M&Ms: Selected a vacation acceptable coloration, should you’d like.

The way to Make Pretzel M&M Hugs

Preheat oven to 200 levels F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper.

Lay the pretzels out of the baking sheet in a fair layer, then high every one with an unwrapped Hershey’s Hug.

lots of square pretzels laid out on silicone baking mat on baking sheet

lots of square pretzels laid out on silicone baking mat on baking sheet with hugs on top of each

Bake for 4-6 minutes, or till the chocolate is shiny and tender, however not fully melted. Take away them from the oven and instantly high every one with an M&M.

Permit to chill fully, then retailer or serve.

finished pretzel hugs with M&MS on top on silicone baking mat

Pretzel M&M Hug Variations

These are excellent for holidays as a result of you’ll be able to simply swap out the M&M colours for varied holidays

Christmas: Use crimson and inexperienced M&Ms.
Halloween/Fall: Use orange and brown M&Ms.
Easter: Use pastel shades of M&MS.
Fourth of July: Use crimson and blue M&Ms.
Totally different sorts of Hershey’s Kisses: There are such a lot of flavors of Hershey’s kisses that you might strive. Simply needless to say ones with white chocolate are going to soften faster than the common chocolate ones.
Totally different sorts of pretzels: You possibly can actually use varied sorts of pretzels, simply needless to say the sizes are totally different. Mini twists are in all probability one of the best various, however they’re nonetheless a bit of smaller.

red and green Christmas pretzel M&M hugs in a white ruffle bowl

pink and red valentine's day pretzel M&M hugs in a pile on a silicone mat on a cookie sheet

Suggestions For Success

Don’t soften the candies an excessive amount of. You don’t need them to be puddles. They need to be shiny and tender, however nonetheless standing. Should you take away them from the oven they usually nonetheless appear a bit of agency while you add the primary M&M, pop them again within the oven for an additional 30 seconds or so and take a look at once more.
I like to recommend utilizing a silicone baking mat in order that they don’t slide round, however parchment paper will work too.
Permit them to chill fully earlier than packaging. You possibly can set them within the fridge to agency up faster, should you’d like.

The way to Retailer

These might be saved in an air tight container at room temperature. Similar to the candies and pretzels can be on their very own, these will probably be good for at the very least every week or till the pretzels start to get stale.