At present I’m sharing my simple approach for making beautiful, professional-looking chocolate lined pretzels. Add your favourite toppings like sprinkles, crushed candies, or nuts!
Chocolate Dipped Pretzels
Just about something could be improved with a chocolate coating, pretzels being no exception. A salty-sweet basic, chocolate lined pretzels pop up most frequently in the course of the holidays, however these are nice and straightforward to make year-round.
What we love about this recipe:
- Easy approach: Different current chocolate pretzel recipes use methods which might be both too easy and go away you with streaky, chalky chocolate coating, or others are overly complicated and require sweet thermometers and extra persistence than most of us have for this straightforward deal with. Mine strikes a cautious stability; we soften the chocolate rigorously and “fake” mood it, giving us shiny shiny outcomes with out an excessive amount of fuss.
- Versatile. Can be utilized for mini pretzels or pretzel rods. Customizable with totally different coloured sprinkles, crushed candies, or toffee bits (or actually practically something you’d like!).
- Good for the vacations! Nice for gracing your Christmas dessert desk or packing into tins for simple selfmade items.
- Lengthy shelf life: they’ll maintain for just a few months within the fridge or freezer!
A Rigorously-Balanced Method
These should not a very sophisticated deal with to make; melting the chocolate is probably the most sophisticated half!
I exploit a chocolate-melting technique just like the one I exploit for my chocolate lined strawberries. If you happen to’re trying to really mood your chocolate (extra on this under) comply with the steps in my sizzling chocolate bomb recipe for melting the chocolate. At present I’m skipping the sweet thermometer, so we’re not really tempering the chocolate. Regardless, you’re nonetheless much less prone to find yourself with a streaky coating with this technique (and even should you do, it’ll nonetheless style good!!).
What You Want
Chocolate dipped pretzels couldn’t be extra easy–all you really want is chocolate and pretzels!
- Chocolate. Stick to top quality milk, darkish, or semisweet chocolate bars or couverture chocolate (pictured above). I don’t want to make use of chocolate chips–I discuss extra about this within the FAQ part under.
- Pretzels. I exploit mini pretzels right here, however you possibly can use regular-sized pretzels or pretzel rods, should you like!
- Toppings. Sprinkles, crushed nuts, crushed candies, or a drizzle of white chocolate/colourful sweet melts are all nice choices right here! It’s also possible to skip the toppings and go away your pretzels plain.
SAM’S TIP: Make your pretzels festive by sprinkling crushed sweet cane items over the tops whereas the chocolate continues to be heat. This’ll provide you with a little bit of a peppermint bark vibe.
Keep in mind, that is simply an summary of the components I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the publish!
Learn how to Make Chocolate Coated Pretzels
- Add all however 2 tablespoons of your chocolate to a medium-sized heatproof bowl, then set this apart.
- Convey a small saucepan full of 1-2 inches of water to a simmer over medium warmth, then place your bowl overtop (the underside of the bowl ought to hover above the water).
- Stir continually because the chocolate melts, and as soon as absolutely melted, take away the bowl from the warmth.
- Stir in your reserved chocolate till it’s utterly melted and clean.
- Dip your pretzels within the melted chocolate, then place on a cooling rack or wax paper lined baking sheet, including any decorations whereas the chocolate continues to be moist.
- Let the chocolate harden earlier than having fun with.
SAM’S TIP: If you happen to lack persistence (I’m with you!), you possibly can place your pretzels within the fridge to hurry up the cooling course of.
How Vital is it to Mood Chocolate?
“Tempering” chocolate refers to a particular technique for heating after which cooling your chocolate. Good chocolatiers mood their chocolate to be able to to make sure a clean, shiny end and agency texture that snaps neatly in your mouth and melts uniformly. If you happen to’ve ever melted chocolate to search out it streaky or chalky in look, it is because your chocolate wasn’t tempered correctly and it “bloomed” which means the cocoa butter separated from the chocolate (see picture under for an instance). It’s essential to notice that this doesn’t have an effect on the style, however I believe we will agree it simply doesn’t look as fairly!
Tempering can, nevertheless, be a bit sophisticated and fussy. It calls for exact, actual temperature management that varies relying in your kind of chocolate. Specialised tools (marble slab, chocolate temperer, thermometer, and so forth.) is advisable, and it’s truthfully simply time consuming and requires fixed monitoring.
That’s… lots (particularly contemplating un-tempered chocolate tastes simply pretty much as good!) so I take a balanced strategy that I name faux-tempering. It’s extra easy than true tempering and isn’t assured to offer you completely tempered outcomes, nevertheless it works most of the time and isn’t way more concerned than melting within the microwave.
The approach is detailed within the recipe under, however basically we slowly soften the chocolate in a double boiler then add chopped chocolate on the very finish to drop the temperature into the tempered temperature vary. It’s not foolproof, nevertheless it works very effectively for me!
Steadily Requested Questions
I discover that chocolate chips soften into too thick of a texture for dipping. If you happen to actually need to use them, you possibly can, however it could be useful to soften a teaspoon of coconut oil or shortening into the chocolate to skinny it sufficient for simple dipping.
You might, simply know white chocolate isn’t a “true” chocolate and doesn’t soften fairly the identical as the opposite candies listed. It normally melts to a a lot thicker consistency than basic chocolate, which may make it messy for dipping, so I’d suggest thinning it with a half teaspoon or extra of melted coconut oil or shortening.
Sure! Simply ensure to freeze them in an hermetic, freezer-safe container. They may final for a number of months this manner.
You may soften chocolate within the microwave, however I like to recommend doing so briefly intervals and nonetheless reserving chocolate so as to add in the long run (just like how described in my recipe). I’ve personally discovered I’m extra prone to find yourself with streaky chocolate bloom this manner, although.
These pretzels would make a enjoyable selfmade reward–good for the vacations!
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Chocolate Coated Pretzels
That is my simple approach for making beautiful, skilled wanting chocolate lined pretzels. Add your favourite toppings like sprinkles, crushed candies, or nuts!
Servings: 5 cups
Energy: 348kcal
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Directions
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Fill a small saucepan with 1-2 inches of water and discover a medium-sized heatproof bowl that matches over the saucepan with out touching the water. (Alternatively, use a double boiler).
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Take away the bowl out of your saucepan and add chocolate, reserving roughly 2 Tablespoons for including later.
12 oz milk
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Convey the water to a simmer over medium warmth. As soon as simmering, place bowl of chocolate over the saucepan.
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Stir continually till chocolate is melted. As soon as clean, take away the bowl from the warmth and add the reserved chocolate. Stir till all chocolate is melted and clean. (this helps to maintain your chocolate from changing into streaky).
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Dip pretzels into chocolate, utterly protecting, after which switch to a cooling rack or wax paper lined baking sheet (area pretzels in order that they’re not touching).
5 cups (200 g) pretzel minis
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Non-compulsory – drizzle with melted white chocolate or sprinkle with sprinkles, toffee bits, crushed nuts, and so forth. whereas chocolate continues to be moist.
Non-compulsory: white chocolate for drizzling
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Enable chocolate to harden utterly earlier than serving. You may velocity up the method by putting the pretzels within the fridge.
Notes
Chocolate
I want to make use of high quality chocolate bars for this recipe (I like Lindt or Ghirardelli). I don’t want chocolate chips as they’ll soften too thick.
Pretzel Rods
To simply dip pretzel rods, pour the chocolate right into a tall glass and dip the rods into the glass.
Storing
Retailer in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 2 weeks or within the fridge for as much as 3 months. Chocolate lined pretzels might also be frozen for a number of months.
Diet
Serving: 1cup | Energy: 348kcal | Carbohydrates: 67g | Protein: 10g | Fats: 5g | Saturated Fats: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 1g | Monounsaturated Fats: 1g | Ldl cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 1018mg | Potassium: 280mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 110IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 105mg | Iron: 4mg
Dietary info is predicated on third-party calculations and must be thought of an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will fluctuate based mostly upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking technique, portion sizes, and extra.
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