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halloween pretzels two ways

HALLOWEEN PRETZELS TWO WAYS

Crispy bites of pretzel snacks coated in your favorite flavor of chocolate and dotted with those eerie, goofy, candy eyes and Pretzel Stick Cigars, again dipped in chocolate and colored sugar to make them look like burning cigars/cigarettes!

Perfect snacks to make and enjoy at Halloween or any fun party you have!

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Author Vanitha Bhat

Ingredients

Basic ingredients you will need are:

  • Crispy Pretzels
  • Pretzel sticks
  • White chocolate bars or chocolate chips
  • Dark and/or milk chocolate again bars or chips
  • Colored sugar crystals black, white plain and green
  • Candied eyeballs eyes

Instructions

FOR THE PRETZEL MONSTERS:

  1. Gather the ingredients – pretzels, white, dark and milk chocolate, candy eyeballs.
    pretzel monsters ingredients

  2. Melt chocolate (white, dark and/or milk) in microwave in 30 second intervals until melted, stirring in between or over a double boiler.

  3. Dip each pretzel in melted chocolate to coat fully. Tap a little to remove excess chocolate and reveal the hollow eye portions.

  4. Place on parchment paper lined baking sheet gently.
  5. Before the chocolate sets, place 2 candy eyeballs on the pretzel and let cool completely. It is easier to do this for 5-6 at a time before the chocolate sets and then continue with the others.
    pretzel monsters

  6. Actually, halfway, I ran out of those candy eyes so decided to wing it.

    I just placed a large white chocolate chip to represent the two eyes and placed a dot of dark/milk chocolate in the center by piping melted chocolate dots on the chocolate chips to represent the black eyeballs.

    You can use either a piping bag or a Ziplock bag with the end/tip snipped off.

  7. Gently remove when completely cooled and set.

FOR THE PRETZLE CIGARS:

  1. Gather the ingredients needed for pretzel cigars/cigarettes.

    Pretzel cigar ingredients
  2. Melt white chocolate.
  3. Dip half the pretzel stick in melted white chocolate.
  4. When the chocolate is still wet, dip the edges in a mixture of white and black crystal sugar up to ½ an inch and gently again in red colored sugar crystals at just the ends to make those fiery red cigar ends!
  5. Place on parchment lined sheet and let cool.
    pretzel cigar sticks
  6. When both are totally set, remove from parchment paper and serve at parties or get togethers, especially at Halloween!
  7. Not only they are cute to look at, they taste amazing too; crispy, salty on the inside and sweet, chocolaty on the outside.
  8. Do try and you will love them too!

  9. Happy Halloween and Happy Snacking!

Recipe Notes

  • Make sure to use crisp, fresh pretzels or pretzel sticks.
  • All the ingredients are available online especially on Amazon!
  • Store in an airtight container to maintain crispiness.
  • Enjoy and Happy Halloween!