Great, Quick last minute Chocolate Cherry Gift Mice (complete w/ photos)

[malinda]

About how long do these stay fresh, do you suppose?
Also, the marichino (sp?) cherries I buy in my supermarket are usually very small...and the ones in the pictures seem rather large. Is there another variety I might just not be aware of that are larger?

[McJulie-O]

I buy the big jar/container of maraschino cherries from Sam's Club, and I presume they are for garnish but they are not giant cherries, just normal size (notice the size of the Hershey kisses).

I can't guess at how long they will last because none of mine ever escape being eaten more than a day or so. If you refrigerated them, they might last a couple or 3-4 days. It's hard to get all the juice out of the cherry when you blot it (but that makes them taste ever so good, too!)

[kiwiblue]

I'm Thinking White Chocolate and beady http://red eyes great for halloween thanks these are a sure fire and relatively easy  My favorite kind of project

[nghna7t]

I'm thinking for Christmas I'll do the mice and some small triangles of rice krispie treats with orange food coloring (for cheese wedges) - I'm just trying to find triangular boxes that I can make look like a big wedge of cheese and then write "Not a creature was stirring . . ." on the top
what do you think?

[YourDadsMistress]

Those are the absolute cutest thing ever. Im definately going to make some this weekend. Thank you for the tutorial. Without it, I would be intimidated by these. Who woulda thought they was so simple to make?

[gebah]

I'm thinking for Christmas I'll do the mice and some small triangles of rice krispie treats with orange food coloring (for cheese wedges) - I'm just trying to find triangular boxes that I can make look like a big wedge of cheese and then write "Not a creature was stirring . . ." on the top
what do you think?

i posted a link to a triangular box that you could easily adapt to look like cheese....

sounds like a cute idea....

[sweets4ever]

I love that this thread is alive again... they're such a cute craft!

[nghna7t]

I'm sorry if I'm slow gebah - where is the link?

[gebah]

this might work...

http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/images/cakebox.gif

it got pushed to the previous page....

[nghna7t]

Thank you - that just might work!!