Easy Chocolate Covered Pretzels

     I'm going to put this out there: I have a sweet tooth.  A major sweet tooth.  Whew, feels good to admit it! ;)  But, there is nothing I love better than eating a sweet treat with a salty one.  Chocolate covered pretzels hit both of those with one shot!  And they're super simple!

What you'll need:

waxed paper

a jelly roll pan

chocolate

sprinkles

pretzel rods

     That's it!!  Nice and easy right?

     Okay here's what you need to do.  Line your jelly roll pan or cookie sheet with wax paper.  I used a jelly roll pan so the sprinkles wouldn't end up all over the kitchen.  Then I pressed my fingernail along the edges so the wax paper lay flat.

     Now melt your chocolate.  I melted mine in the microwave.  Whenever I melt chocolate in the microwave I start with one minute and then continue melting at 30 second intervals, stirring after each time.  I do it this way so that I don't burn the chocolate by melting it too fast.  Make sure there are no lumps in the chocolate so it's nice and smooth to cover your pretzels with.  While I was melting the chocolate, I broke my pretzel rods in half.  The full size ones are just too big to dip well.  And if you happen to eat more than one, or two (or three) of them, you won't feel quite as guilty as you would if they were whole ;)

 

 

     Once my chocolate was all melted, it was time to start dipping the pretzels.  I put the broken off edge in to chocolate and then used a spoon to spread it up the sides of the pretzel.  Try not to get too crazy with your chocolate spreading or you'll have it all over your fingers...not that I have experience at that at all...

dip the tip into the chocolate so it gets covered

use your spoon to spread the chocolate

finished pretzel, nicely coated in chocolate-y goodness :)

     Next, lay your pretzel out on the waxed paper.  I covered a few of them before I put sprinkles on them.  I did use two different types of sprinkles and one was a bit larger than the other.  For the smaller sprinkles, I only did about four pretzels before I put sprinkles on them, but with the larger ones I did six or seven and then only put sprinkles on the first four.  The larger sprinkles slide the chocolate off the pretzels a bit.  Not super noticeable, but it would have driven me crazy!

Sprinkles!! :)

Small sprinkles

Large sprinkles

     I made two jelly roll pans full of pretzels and the first pan was mostly set by the time I was done with the second, so they don't take too long to set.

     If you're using the same kind of chocolate I did, it's 24 ounces of chocolate and will get you about 6 dozen (half-sized) pretzels.  I did have lots of pretzels left over though, which is fine by me, I love pretzels :)

Leftover pretzels

     See that tiny little pretzel on the left in the middle-ish?  That's what my family (and coworkers if we're being honest) would call a Katie sized one.  I'm short. Like barely over 5 foot short.  Let the short jokes commence :)

Yum!!!

This is called a whoops moment...sprinkles come out quickly...beware.

Happy baking friends!

    -Katie