Pretzel M&M Hugs

These Pretzel M&M Hugs are festive little chocolate treats! They’re straightforward to make, use solely 3 elements 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 at all times a well-liked one and these aren’t any exception. And it helps that they’re tremendous straightforward to make too. All you want is about quarter-hour and you may make these.

Maybe among the finest 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 measurement makes them straightforward to bundle up for presents and ideal for snacking.

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

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

Components

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

Sq. pretzels
Hershey’s Hugs
M&Ms: Selected a vacation acceptable colour, for those who’d like.

How you can 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 each 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 utterly melted. Take away them from the oven and instantly high each with an M&M.

Enable to chill utterly, 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 may 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.
Completely different sorts of Hershey’s Kisses: There are such a lot of flavors of Hershey’s kisses that you might attempt. Simply understand that ones with white chocolate are going to soften faster than the common chocolate ones.
Completely different sorts of pretzels: You possibly can definitely use varied sorts of pretzels, simply understand that the sizes are completely different. Mini twists are in all probability the most effective various, however they’re nonetheless slightly 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 goodies an excessive amount of. You don’t need them to be puddles. They need to be shiny and tender, however nonetheless standing. In the event you take away them from the oven and so they nonetheless appear slightly agency while you add the primary M&M, pop them again within the oven for one more 30 seconds or so and check out 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.
Enable them to chill utterly earlier than packaging. You possibly can set them within the fridge to agency up faster, for those who’d like.

How you can Retailer

These could be saved in an air tight container at room temperature. Similar to the candies and pretzels could be on their very own, these might be good for no less than per week or till the pretzels start to get stale.