Chocolate covered pretzels
Some people make Christmas cookies. I make chocolate covered pretzels. My great aunt Helen would send us a tin of chocolate covered pretzels every year, and I will forever associate them with Christmas. Plus, they are insanely easy to make!
The 3 things you need to make chocolate covered pretzels: chocolate, pretzels and wax paper. Do not forget about the wax paper, or you will be eating pretzel bits you chip off your plate.
Also, buy more pretzels than you think you’ll need — about a third of any bag will be broken ones. I also look for a slightly thicker pretzel (like Utz Sourdough Specials), so they don’t break during dipping.
You can melt your chocolate in a double boiler, but I have always had better luck with the microwave. It only takes 45 seconds to a minute to melt half a bag of chocolate chips in my microwave. Underheat, don’t overheat! If the chocolate gets too hot, your pretzels will have white marks on them.
The bowl and chocolate are both hot. The top chips will still look dry when there’s plenty of heat to melt the whole bowl. Start stirring. If all the chips don’t melt, run the microwave in 10 second intervals until they’re all melted.
Once you have a bowl of melted chocolate, start dipping! Dip one side, then the other. Make sure you have chocolate all over (I tend to miss the top edge if I’m not being careful.)
Clearly, I am not an ace dipper. That’s OK!
That is why they invented sprinkles! I’ve used jimmies, pralines, nuts, and sea salt (yes, really.) You could use crushed up candy canes, Nerds, Heath bars, Oreos… you are limited only by your imagination. Never has misdirection been so tasty!
Chocolate covered pretzels
- 1 bag pretzels
- 12 oz. (one bag) chocolate chips
Microwave the chips for 45-60 seconds. Dip the pretzels in chocolate until they are covered. Decorate. Lay on a wax paper covered cookie sheet, and refrigerate. Makes 25-30 pretzels.
