It’s time to embrace winter with some special treats! Chocolate covered pretzels are a great combination of a little salty and a little sweet. For Mini Chef Mondays this week, my son and I made our chocolate covered pretzels as snowflakes. We cooled them in the freezer so they would be ready to eat in a jiffy and they were a big hit!
Chocolate Covered Pretzels:
You will need:
- white chocolate*
- pretzel sticks*
- Optional: blue food coloring, white, blue or sparkly sprinkles
- Special equipment: double boiler, wax paper, squeeze bottle
1. Arrange the pretzel sticks into the snowflake shapes on wax paper. We used long, skinny pretzel sticks so we had to break them in half. If you have shorter sticks you can arrange them in a similar shape without having to break them. Depending on the age of your child you may have to help with the arranging!
2. (parent step) Melt the white chocolate in a double boiler, or metal bowl set over a pot with a little boiling water, stirring until smooth. Be careful not to overcook or let it burn.
3. Carefully pour the chocolate into your squeeze bottle.
4. Squeeze a large dollop of chocolate in the center of each snowflake. This will help keep the snowflakes together.
5. Decorate the snowflakes going crazy with squeezing the chocolate all over! Be sure to help your child a little to make sure the chocolate stays connected with the pretzels (instead of random lines on the wax paper!).
6. After you put enough white, add a drop or two of blue food coloring if you’d like and squeeze that around, too. Then, decorate with sprinkles! You could also skip the food coloring if you don’t want to use it, and just decorate with sprinkles here.
7. Transfer to a flat surface in the freezer to set, about an hour. Carefully remove from the wax paper and serve strait from the freezer. Eat the snowflakes fast before they melt!
Enjoy!
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