🧑🎄 Chocolate Dipped Christmas Pretzels
Making chocolate dipped Christmas Pretzels is a fun, festive activity for the holidays. Just dip pretzel rods into melted chocolate and add sprinkles! Cute and yummy!
Servings 8 -ish pretzels
Equipment
- Parchment paper or wax paper
- 1 tray or baking sheet
- 2 small bowls
- 2 spoons or small spatulas
- large towel optional (for mess)
- small Ziploc bags optional (to make a piping bag)
- Scissors optional (to make a piping bag)
Ingredients
- vanilla flavored melting wafers
- milk chocolate flavored melting wafers
- pretzel rods
- Christmas-themed sprinkles
- mini M&M's
- candy canes
Instructions
- Lay parchment paper on top of your tray. Then pour a handful of white melting wafers into a small bowl. Microwave for 45 seconds, stir, and repeat once more.
- Dip a pretzel rod into the melted candy to coat the tip. Then use a spoon to coat the pretzel with the melted candy. Lightly tap the dipped pretzel against the edge of the bowl to discard the excess. Leave the bottom 1/3 of the pretzel naked.
- Place your coated pretzel(s) on the tray. OR, while the pretzel coating is still wet, decorate with sprinkles, mini M&M's, or crushed candy canes. Lay pretzel(s) on the tray and place in fridge for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, melt your chocolate candy melts (as in Step 1). Grab a coated pretzel from your fridge tray. Dip a spoon into the melted chocolate candy and hold it above the pretzel, drizzling the chocolate back and forth. Repeat Step 3.
Notes
- Be careful melting the candy wafers. Use microwave-safe bowls. Microwave wafers for 45 seconds, stir, and then repeat once. If they're still not melted, heat again for no more than 10 seconds at a time.
- For smaller batches of pretzels, leave the pretzels to dry on the counter.
- For larger batches of pretzels, it's best to refrigerate them because it speeds up the hardening/drying process. Have your kiddo set this adorable cat timer 😸⏲️ to 5 minutes every time your refrigerate a batch.
- If you want a more even drizzle on your pretzels, make a DIY piping bag. Just cut a tiny hole in the bottom corner of a small Ziploc bag, add some melted candy wafers, seal the bag, and squeeze gently to drizzle.
- To crush candy canes, we recommend using the flat side of a meat mallet. Just be cautious of little hands getting in the way.