Chocolate Covered Pretzels are a sweet, salty, and crunchy treat perfect for the holidays! Great for parties, snacking, or gift baskets!
Chocolate is its own food group in this kitchen, and I’ve been busy making all of our favorite desserts like Dark Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, Christmas White Chocolate Trash Snack Mix and Slow Cooker Chocolate Peanut Candy.
Sabrina’s Chocolate Covered Pretzel Recipe
Chocolate Covered Pretzels are one of my all-time favorite recipes to make for the holidays because they’re the perfect snack to wrap up as gifts. The pretzel adds a really nice crunch against the sweet candy, with some added flaky salt for a salty contrast. This recipe utilizes melting chocolate, but you can also do this with chocolate chips leftover from making other holiday desserts.
Ingredients
- 72 pretzel twists
- 6 ounces semisweet chocolate disks
- 1/2 teaspoon flaky sea salt
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl in 30 second increments.
- Dip the pretzels, scrape most of the chocolate off the bottom of them and place onto parchment paper to harden.
- Place remaining chocolate into piping bag and squeeze over pretzels and sprinkle salt over the top then harden the pretzels fully in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes.
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More about this recipe:
This is a totally kid-friendly recipe, and the perfect way for them to have fun in the kitchen making a sweet and salty treat! You want to make sure you have either parchment or waxed paper on hand for this recipe, to make sure the pretzels don’t stick as they dry. Try putting them on a cookie sheet to dry so it’s easier to move them to the refrigerator all at once.
Ingredients
- Chocolate: Classic semi-sweet chocolate pretzels are the perfect place to start, but you can use other types of chocolate according to taste.
- Pretzels: The snacking pretzels used here are small and crunchy chips compared to the larger doughy counterpart that’s usually dipped in a yummy cheese sauce. These crunchy little bites are easy to eat and fun to share.
How to Make
Time needed: 25 minutes.
- Melt
Melt the chocolate over heat until smooth.
- Dip
Immerse the pretzels individually into the melted chocolate. Let any excess chocolate drip off before putting it on the cooling rack.
- Set
After you’ve dipped the pretzels in chocolate, let them harden in the fridge, then enjoy!
Chef Tips
- Don’t leave these in sunlight or in a warm room. If you know it’s going to be especially warm one day, I recommend storing them in a cooler place like the refrigerator.
- You can add nuts to the food processor to chop them quickly, like pecans, almonds, or walnuts. Then sprinkle them over the melted chocolate.
- The difference between wax paper and parchment paper is that wax paper cannot withstand the heat when baking, while parchment paper can. They’re both great for this no-bake recipe because they’re non-stick.
Frequent Questions
These pretzels will last at room temperature in an airtight container for 2-3 weeks. Keep them in a cool dry place, remember that chocolate can melt if it gets too hot. I’d recommend a plastic bag and a container, just to make sure they don’t go stale. The last thing we want is stale snacks!
For this recipe you can use melting chocolate or chocolate chips to coat the pretzels. Many people also like to keep a piping bag ready to decorate them after the first coating. For example, coat with milk chocolate, then top with a white chocolate drizzle.
This recipe actually coats both with additional semisweet chocolate and white chocolate just so you could see how you can actually make it look beautiful even with just additional chocolate of the same variety too!
The easiest way is to melt the candy for this recipe is in the microwave, stopping every 30 seconds to stir and make sure the chocolate isn’t burning. You can also use a double boiler to melt the chocolate, stirring continuously until it looks smooth.
Lay the chocolate covered pretzels on a baking sheet with parchment paper and place in the refrigerator for about 15-20 minutes. The melted chocolate will set once its cold, then you can remove the pretzels from the baking sheet and move to your container
Freezing might make the pretzels go stale more quickly, so doing so is not recommended. This recipe works best at room temperature, or refrigerated if it’s too warm or the chocolate starts melting.
Make this a diary-free recipe by using allergen free chocolate chips instead of milk chocolate.
How to Store
- Serve: Serve these sweet treats as soon as the chocolate has solidified. They can be placed on parchment paper and in a tin container or just on a plate.
- Store: Keep leftover treats stored in an airtight container for up to 3 weeks. You can store either in the refrigerator or in the pantry without issue.
- Freeze: You can also store them in the freezer in an airtight container for up to 3 months.
Variations
- Chocolate: Use your favorite chocolate whether dark, milk, or even white chocolate chips to add some fun variety!
- Pretzels: This recipe is using traditional pretzel twists, but you can also use pretzel rods and pretzel sticks too. If you’re using pretzel rods or sticks, you can just dip about 2/3rds of the pretzel rod into the bowl of chocolate.
- Topping: The flaky sea salt used in this recipe goes great as a decorative piece. You can also try coarse sanding sugar. During the holiday season, try using a festive sprinkles instead. You can also try toffee bits.
- Coconut: Make chocolate-coconut pretzels by dipping them in sweetened coconut flakes! It’s the perfect no bake recipe for the weekend.
- Orange: Dip in dark chocolate and sprinkle with chopped candied orange peel for a chocolate orange pretzel recipe!
- Peppermint Pretzels: Add a few drops of peppermint extract to melted semisweet chocolate and sprinkle with crushed candy canes or peppermint candy for a Christmas version!
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i like the video of what you guys do thank you for this website
You’re welcome!
I don’t have parchment paper or wax paper. And I want to make them today. Can I use aluminum foil?
Yes!
Hi Sabrina,
Would like to make chocolate pretzels. I’m not sure if all prezels are created equal so wanted to ask what brand you used in your recipe? They look most delicious!!!
Hi! i use what ever is most cost effective at the time! So if you have a personal favorite I would use that!
I’m going to try and make some because I’m thinking that they might be cheaper an more fun to do it this way an get my Granddaughter to come over and try to do it with me too
We made some at work for gifts. We had the put them in the fridge overnight. Packaged in the cellophane plastic and sent home. We had extras in ate some when I got home. However, the top was crunchy but bottom became soft. Some of sprinkles started to come off as well but not much. My pretzels looked like they were sweating. Sent home on Friday some will not open until Sunday. What did we do wrong??
They might have gotten too cold while the refrigerator and started to sweat once removed which caused them to be soft. Next time, leave them at room temperature to ensure that doesn’t happen. Hope this helps!
Your pretzels look larger then ones I have seen in the store. Is that just the photo playing tricks?
These are just regular sized pretzels. I hope you decide to give this recipe a try.
After putting the flakes if salt in there, I noticed after a couple days my pretzels developed white spots. Is this because the salt dissolved into the chocolate and created this? And is there any way to prevent this.
Oh no! It sounds like the chocolate might have been old or it was possible over-microwaved.
When I initially read through the recipe, on the last step, I thought it said “hide” the pretzels in the fridge and I thought to myself “oh, that is exactly what I’m going to do!”?
After re-reading it, I will STILL hide them in the fridge.
Haha, not a bad tip! Enjoy!
We are huge fans of chocolate covered pretzels and your tips make it so easy!
They’re so good!!
Such a beautiful gift
Definitely!
Perfect for the kids to help too. These are wonderful.
Who doesn’t love chocolate covered pretzels. This is such and easy recipe. Love it thank you.
You’re welcome!
I LOVE these!! They look faaantastic!! YUM!