Jeweled Christmas Kisses

Square Pretzels

Hershey's Kisses

Christmas Colored M&M's

Fill a cookie sheet with pretzels. Center a kiss on each one. Bake at 175 degrees for 10 minutes. This will soften the kisses. Press an M&M onto each kiss. 

Updated 12/10/2010 -- Scroll down for Nuked Jeweled Christmas Kisses!

Guess who's oven broke!  Yes, the lower baking element caught ablaze while baking bread.  Thankfully I was nearby.  So we have been managing all our meals on the stove top without too much difficulty--we went a few weeks without an oven during our sojourn in Albuquerque.  

But Kathryn needed to bring a treat to her band Christmas party!  We had all the ingredients for Jeweled Christmas Kisses, so we decided to try them in the microwave.  They turned out just fine, but I learned that you need to let them sit to soften properly.  So here's the method:

Place all your pretzels on a microwave safe dish--we just used a paper plate.  Place a kiss on each pretzel.  Nuke for 1 minute.  Nuke for 30 seconds more.  Let sit a few minutes.  You can see in the picture, I started on the outside circle and they looked like Santa bags or something.  But by the time I got to the center ones, they had warmed all the way through and looked perfect.  I put a second batch in the microwave and then didn't get back to them for about 15 minutes.  They still were perfectly soft.

Update (later today):  Kathryn tried to make only a few cookies on a paper plate in the microwave (I think it was four), and they burned!  That did not happen when I made four in a glass casserole dish.  Go figure!