These adorable acorn kisses are easy to make and a fun activity to make with kids. These chocolate treats only use four to five ingredients and are not only easy to make but they're yummy, too. They're a perfect fall activity!
This recipe was inspired by Hershey's version of Kisses Acorn Treats that use Hershey Milk Chocolate Kisses, mini vanilla wafers, Peanut butter mini chips, and homemade icing to glue the pieces together.
Ingredients in Acorn Treats
- Chocolate Kiss Candies - get creative and choose different fillings and flavors for your Acorn Kisses!
- Mini Nilla wafers
- Mini Fudge Stripes
- Black icing - quicker than making it homemade!
- Mini Chocolate Chips
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How to Make Acorn Kisses
Unwrap the candies and cookies - Unwrap the chocolate kisses as well as open the bags of Mini Nilla wafers and the Mini Fudge Stripe cookies.
Prepare the cookie icing - Cut the tip of the icing tube large enough to squeeze a small amount to glue the acorn kisses together.
Assemble the acorn kisses - Squeeze a small amount of icing onto the flat part of the chocolate kisses and then place the bottom of either a Mini Nilla wafer or mini Fudge Stripe onto the icing and give it a quarter turn. This will help the icing stick!
TIP: Placing parchment paper down on the table or counter while making these chocolate treats will make it quick and easy to clean up!
Place a small amount of icing onto the bottom of the mini chocolate chip and give it a quarter-turn twist when attaching it to the top of the wafer or cookie.
Allow drying - Allow the cookie icing to harden before moving the acorn treats carefully to a container to retain freshness.
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Acorn Kisses Variations
There are a lot of fun choices when making acorn kisses! I choose to use Mini Nilla wafers and Mini Fudge Stripes but there are a lot of fun options and combinations when making these!
Here are some fun alternatives to make acorn kisses:
- Mini Chips Deluxe
- Mini Oreos (Chocolate or Golden)
- Ritz Bits Cheese Crackers (mini)
- Ritz Bits Peanut Butter Crackers (mini)
- Mini Butterscotch Morsels for the stems
- Mini Caramel Morsels for the stems
- Hershey Kisses - Swap out the milk chocolate kisses for something a little more creative if you'd like!
📖 Recipe
Acorn Kisses
Equipment
Ingredients
- 40 Chocolate Kisses Candies
- 20 Mini Nilla wafers cookies
- 20 Mini Fudge Stripes cookies
- 40 Mini Chocolate Chips
- Black Cookie Icing
Instructions
- Unwrap the chocolate kisses as well as open the bags of Mini Nilla wafers and the Mini Fudge Stripe cookies.
- Cut the tip of the icing tube large enough to squeeze a small amount to glue the acorn kisses together.
- Squeeze a small amount of icing onto the flat part of the chocolate kisses and then place the bottom of either a Mini Nilla wafer or Mini Fudge Stripe onto the icing and give it a quarter turn. This will help the icing stick!
- Place a small amount of icing onto the bottom of the mini chocolate chip and give it a quarter-turn twist when attaching it to the top of the wafer or cookie.
- Allow the cookie icing to harden before moving the acorn treats carefully to a container to retain freshness.
Notes
- Mini Chips Deluxe
- Mini Oreos (Chocolate or Golden)
- Ritz Bits Cheese Crackers (mini)
- Ritz Bits Peanut Butter Crackers (mini)
- Mini Butterscotch Morsels for the stems
- Mini Caramel Morsels for the stems
- Hershey Kisses - Swap out the milk chocolate kisses for something a little more creative if you'd like!
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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