Easy Hershey Kiss Pretzels (with M&M candies on top)

In less than an hour, you can whip up Hershey Kiss pretzels, a sweet treat perfect for any holiday party or tasty gift. They are an easy dessert combining salty pretzels with milk chocolate kisses and a brightly colored m&m candy on top.

Finished Hershey Kiss Pretzels

Hershey Kiss pretzels as a gift

When you don’t have much time, this recipe is quick and easy solution. The ingredients are readily available at the grocery store, drug store, or even a gas station. The m&m pretzel treats are great option for:

  • Cookie exchanges: hold a cookie exchange before Christmas and trade with your friends to have a variety of cookies on hand.
  • Hostess gifts: Invited to a gathering? Bring these along for gift for the host and hostess that is sure to please.
  • Teacher gifts: Whether it is teacher appreciation week, his/her birthday, Christmas or the end of the year, your child’s teacher will gobble these up.
  • Neighbor gifts: Take a treat to your neighbors for Christmas, May Day, or use them to welcome new neighbors to the block.

The Hershey Kiss pretzels are so quick, easy and tasty, you’ll make the first batch for a gift and then a second batch for yourself!

Tips for packaging the Hershey Kiss pretzels as a gift

With their bright colors, these m&m pretzel treats can be packaged as a appealing gift – here are a few ways:

  • Mason jar: Fill a mason jar (use holiday fabric or tissue paper under the ring to dress it up.
  • Cookie tin: Line a cookie tin with tissue paper and fill with the sweet and salty treat.
  • Cookie plate: Include on a variety cookie plate prepared for friends and neighbors.
  • Cellophane bag: Use a decorative cellophane bag and tie with a ribbon.

Tip!

Hershey Kiss pretzels in a themed cellophane bag make a perfect birthday party treat bag.

Check out these Christmas hacks for moms for more tips to make the holidays easier.

Variations on the Hershey Kiss pretzels recipe

Make simple changes the recipe for these pretzel bites to suit your tastes and the occasion.

Pretzel variations

We like our m&m pretzel kisses with the regular mini pretzels, but there are lots of options including:

  • Waffle mini pretzels
  • Round mini pretzels
  • Holiday-shaped pretzels

Chocolate variations

You can’t go wrong with regular milk chocolate, but these options can add something extra to the m&m pretzel treats:

  • Rolos: use Rolo candies instead of Kisses for a caramel version of the pretzel treats. We especially to make Christmas Rolo Pretzels with red m&m’s and round pretzels – they look like little hats.
  • Hershey Hugs: instead of kisses, use the black and white Hugs instead. The mixture of creamy white chocolate is pretty and delicious.
  • Flavored Kisses: Hershey now makes lots of flavors of kisses, including sugar cookie, candy cane, cookies ‘n creme, cherry cordial, and caramel kisses.
  • Chocolate chips: in a pinch, several chocolate chips piled on a pretzel would work too.

Candy topping variations

Make m&m pretzel kisses with a twist by changing the color of m&m candies:

  • Pink and Red for Valentine’s Day
  • Green for St. Patrick’s Day
  • Red and Blue for Independence Day
  • Orange, Yellow and Brown for Halloween
  • Pink and Blue for a baby shower

Or change the flavor of the m&m’s to suit your sweet tooth – they have as many as 64 flavors, some seasonal, including:

  • Mint
  • Peanut
  • Peanut butter
  • Caramel
  • Caramel cold brew
  • Dark chocolate
  • Almond

Supplies needed to make Hershey Kiss Pretzels

Ingredients for Hershey Kiss Pretzels

  1. Mini pretzels
  2. Hershey Kisses
  3. m&m candies

How to make Hershey Kiss Pretzels

Hershey kiss pretzels ingredients

Step 1 – assemble the pretzels and chocolate

Place pretzels in a single layer on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat for quick clean-up. Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees.

While the oven is heating, remove the wrappers from the Hershey kisses. This is a task little hands love to help complete. Place one unwrapped Hershey Kiss each on top of the pretzels.

Hershey kiss pretzels ready to heat

Step 2 – melt the chocolate

Place cookie sheet in the heated oven for 4-6 minutes. The chocolate should be glistening but not drippy.

Step 3 – press in the m&m’s

When they’ve reached the perfect amount of meltedness, the chocolate should be soft enough to easily press the m&m down into the Kiss, surrounding the edges of the m&m with chocolate.

Finished Hershey Kiss Pretzels

Step 4 – cool, store and eat

Place the baking sheet in a cool location until the pretzel treats reach room temperature. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.

three ingredient hershey kiss pretzels
Yield: 30

Hershey Kiss Pretzels

Finished Hershey Kiss Pretzels

Whip up Hershey Kiss pretzels, an easy dessert combining salty pretzels with milk chocolate kisses and a brightly colored m&m candy on top.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 30 mini pretzels
  • 30 Hershey Kisses
  • 30 m&m candies

Instructions

    1. Place pretzels in a single layer on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat for quick clean-up.
    2. Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees.
    3. While the oven is heating, remove the wrappers from the Hershey kisses.
    4. Place one unwrapped Hershey Kiss on top of each pretzel.
    5. Place the cookie sheet in the heated oven for 4-6 minutes. Remove when the chocolate is soft and glistening.
    6. Press an m&m down into the each Kiss, surrounding the edges of the m&m with chocolate.
    7. Place the baking sheet in a cool location until the pretzel treats reach room temperature.

Notes

  • Store in an airtight container at room temperature.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

30

Serving Size:

1 pretzel bite

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 32

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