During our vacation to Virginia Beach, we spent a morning at Adam’s Aunt Pat and Uncle John’s house. They live on some body of water that flows into a bay that flows into the Atlantic Ocean (I know, I know… I’m a numbers girl, easy) so the kids went crabbing while the adults hung out.
While we were there, Aunt Pat made these super cute chocolate-dipped pretzels in like 2 minutes to serve with lunch. The recipe itself is super simple, nothing fancy – you could totally swing it on your first try without guidance, I’m sure.
(insert picture here of pretty chocolate-dipped pretzels that I forgot to take.)
But then she started pulling out rubber bands from a kitchen drawer and made this with a Tupperware container:
A little holder/cooling rack for the chocolate-dipped pretzels! This way, it’s super compact and only the tiny tip of the pretzel gets flat, rather than the whole side if you were to lay it on a cookie sheet. So smart, I tell you.
Quick instructions on making Chocolate-Dipped Pretzels:
- Break pretzel rods in half (or buy the 1/2 sized ones if you can find them)
- Melt some chocolate chips in a coffee mug. (I used about 1.5 cups of chocolate chips.)
- Dip the broken end of the pretzel in the melted chocolate, rolling the chocolate up the side of the mug to cover about 2/3 of each pretzel and to also get the excess chocolate off.
- Hold dipped pretzel over a plate or bowl and sprinkle with sprinkles.
- Place each pretzel, chocolate side down, in one square created by the rubber bands.
- Let cool completely.
This is a cheap and easy treat to take to a cook-out or July 4th party. You could make them with white chocolate with blue and red sprinkles to be patriotic. 🙂
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Love the tupperware/rubberband cooling rack!
Great idea. I make them all the time. Thank you for sharing!
I use a cooling rack, place un-dipped side into the rack, perfect pretzel every time.
O.k., this is so super easy, why do I have to save it? And where? Cookies? Candy? Gosh, I don’t know, but if I don’t save it somewhere, I’ll forget about it and never do it, so I’ll save it under candy because that’s my favourite place:) And, rubber bands on Tupperware? Genius! Thanks for this, I have to make something for a Christmas bake sale and I don’t feel good, so these will come in perfectly. Thanks!
I’m planning a Christmas candy day with my granddaughters. Thank you for sharing this. There are a number of “aha moments “ in your post; The cooling rack is ingenious, breaking the rods in half and melting the chips in mugs…so kid (and grandma) friendly!
wow that is such a good idea. I wish I had seen this prior to making my pretzel sticks last weekend. I will keep it for next.
Do you think full size pretzel rods would work too?
My friends make these but she does a few different kinds. She does some with caramel and nuts or toffee, she does some with chocolate and caramel. I’ve also done some with white dipping chocolate and added Doterra lavender oil to it. I wasn’t sure how this was going to taste but it was actually really good!
I’m making this today.
Rack is genius.
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These look good! Will make soon!
Hello!
Genius hack.
One question tho. How does the tip of the pretzel look since it’s sitting on a surface?
Thanks so much!!