Lil White Mice Army Recipes

WHITE MICE COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter.
• Add sugar, flour and vanilla.
• Work with clean hands and nails.
• Add nuts.
• Use 1 1/2 teaspoons of dough (about the size of a regular marble) and shape into small mice (teardrop shape).
• Bake in a 350° oven for 10 minutes or until set.
• If you like larger mice, use 1 1/2 Tablespoons of dough (size of walnut or golf ball) Bake for 20 minutes.
• When cool, roll in powdered sugar.
• Baking time will be approximate, according to the size of the mice.
• Please watch your first batch and record the correct minutes for your size mice and oven temperature.

MICE COOKIES

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and brown sugar; beat in egg and extracts. Gradually add flour; mix well. Cover and chill for 1 hour. Shape into 1-in. balls; pinch front of each ball to form a nose. Add two peanuts halves for ears, two raisin pieces for eyes and one red-hot for nose. Poke a hole for tail with a toothpick. Place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 325° for 12 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on wire racks Insert licorice pieces for tails.

LIL WHITE MICE ARMY

Steps:

• white Chocolate Chips (I'm using white for white mice; you can use dark or milk, too), maraschino cherries (with stems!), almond slices, red candy melts (this is optional), milk chocolate, and vanilla candy melts (also known as almond bark, sometimes). The red is for the eyes, the milk chocolate is for noses. If you use milk chocolate for brown mice, I recommend dark chocolate for noses, and white chocolate for noses on dark chocolate mice. It's all about the contrast. Eyes should be dark chocolate, unless they're albinos like mine.
• first things first: Drain the cherries. Drain them well, or you'll contaminate the chocolate when it's dipping time. I'll usually set the cherries draining while I get everything else ready.
• Next, they go for a plunge in the chocolate! Make sure you coat them very well, and get the stems, too.
• The next stage I couldn't show you in pieces, cause you have to work a little fast. Set the cherry down on its side - with the stem laying flat (ish). Now it's a tail! Place a chocolate chip on what was the bottom of the cherry - now it's a nose! Place two sorta matching almond slices for the ears. The trick to this is sticking these on before the chocolate sets. I usually make milk chocolate mice, which is why the almond slices I have are unblanched. If you want to get extra fance with your white mice, then get blanched almond slices. Finding ones that sorta match is a bit of a pain, but hey! in the end, it's ADORABLE.
• With a little melted chocolate, dot on a nose! I made some of mine albino, some of them just white. I used a toothpick for this part, i didn't feel the need to waste a pastry bag on a chocolate chip's worth of melted chocolate Noses on and ready for eyeballs! Same deal for the eyes; I just used a toothpick. It was about halfway through this part, when I swapped over to the red candy melts, that I realized I'd totally spaced out and given them all dark noses. Oh well.