St. Patrick's Shamrock Pretzel Treats

We have made many various combinations of Pretzels + Hershey Kisses or Rolos + M&M's or Pecans, but I just love the cute variation I recently ran across at Once Upon a Dream for "clover treasts."  I made a couple slight modifications, making ours with some Irish Creme and Creme de Menthe Hershey Kisses (Yum!!!) and green candy melts instead of the frosting.  These will make a great little treat for the feast of St. Patrick!

St. Patrick's Shamrock Pretzel Treats

Supplies:

• Pretzels
• Irish Cream Hershey Kisses
• Green M&M's
• Green Candy Melts (or Frosting)
• Parchment Paper

Directions:

Cover a cookie sheet with waxed paper. Cover with a single layer of pretzels and place a Hershey Kiss in the center of each pretzel.

Place the cookie sheet in the oven at 200˚ for about 8 minutes, until the Hershey Kisses are soft, but not melted.

Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and immediately press 3 green M&M's on each Hershey Kiss, creating a Shamrock.

Note:  I suggest looking for a bag of St. Patrick's Day M&M's or just purchase green M&M's from a candy store.  The "big" bag of M&M's I originally purchased only came with enough to make 16 shamrocks.  Nowhere near enough!

Melt a few green candy melts (or use green frosting) and add a stem to each shamrock.

Put them in the fridge until the chocolate set back up. Then add a line of green frosting to make the stem.

May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. 
May your heart be as light as a song. 

May each day bring you bright, happy hours 

that stay with you all the year long.