This ideah is soo easy and soo fun! I did 2 bags of these for christmas and will prolly do it again for valentines day. Kids LOVE it!
get a couple bags of carmels for melting
Holiday colored m & m's
Holiday colored sprinkles
holiday colored sugars.
honey roasted peanuts
dry roasted peanuts
toffee covered peanuts
White chocolate for melting
Milk or dark chocolate for melting.
A couple of loaf pans filled to the top with sugar or salt. U will use this to hold your pretzel rods up while they dry. I haven't found a better way to do this.
8 x8 foil trays for each of your candies, sugars, and nuts.
As the melted caramels dry pretty quickly you will need to act quickly from step 2 through step 3.
Step 1: in a double boiler melt your caramels on low to medium heat.
step 2: tip double boiler and roll at least 1/2 of the pretzel rod in caramel
step 3: quickly roll caramel dipped pretzel in candy, sugar or peanuts of your choice. (The caramel is the "glue" that sticks the candy to the rods. You may need to lightly press or tap the candy/peanut coated pretzel in the palm of your hand so secure them.)
step 4: Stand the pretzel rod in the sugar until cooled
Repeat steps 2-4 until all the pretzels have been dipped and rolled.
Melt the white chocolate and the milk chocolate seperately.
drizzle over or dip pretzels. Again stand upright in sugar to cool.
Have fun! use the green and red m and m's for christmas, the pink, red and white for valenties, the brown and orange for halloween... you get the pictures. Also very good with crushed up candy canes of all flavors. Be creative!
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Did you make some? They're soo good and wonderful for every holiday or occassion. I like that kids can make them too, to give away as gifts.
Keep me updated :)
Stuart loves these! Someone brought us them last Christmas and we ended up fighting over them. It was his fault - there was an even number and he wanted them all! ;)
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