Let's welcome guest author Nancy Coco today with a fun homemade Halloween treat
I saw these really cute pretzel bites for Halloween on
Pinterest and thought I’d try them myself. What an adventure! They are not that
easy and I feel like I may need to say “Nailed It!” like a Pinterest fail. But
then I realized if you put googly eyes on it the kids will love it and they are
kind of cute!
Halloween Googly-eyed Pretzel Bites
Ingredients:
1 bag of bite-sized pretzels
1 bag of bite-sized pretzel sticks
1 bag of dark chocolate wafers for melting
1 bag of white chocolate wafers for melting
1 container of edible googly eyes
1 green piping gel
1 white piping gel
1 red piping gel
1 box of food color that includes orange
Directions:
Melt ½ a bag of white chocolate on defrost in the microwave
for 30 seconds. Stir, if not all melted, try again for 15 seconds. You can use
a double boiler, but don’t let the water boil and don’t get any steam in the
chocolate or it will seize up. Once the
white chips are melted add 8-10 drops of orange food coloring until you get the
color you want for pumpkins. Using a fork dip the pretzels in the orange
chocolate on both sides and place on a sheet of parchment paper. After dipping
about a dozen pretzels and pretzel sticks, pour the remaining chocolate into a
piping bag and fill the pretzel holes until full. Add googly eyes and a green
stem. Let cool.
Use the second half of white chocolate wafers to make ghosts
or mummies. Simply melt the same as above, stirring constantly. Then using a
fork, dip about 12 pretzels to coat both sides. Then fill another pastry bag
with white chocolate and fill the pretzel with across lines of chocolate to
look like mummy wrappings or fill as you did with the pumpkins for ghosts. Add
two eyes and let cool.
By now you’re getting the hang of it. Melt half of the dark
chocolate wafers in the microwave for 30 second on low or defrost. Using a fork
dip the pretzels. Once you have twelve dipped, pour chocolate into a piping bag
and fill in the holes, then pipe on ears, add googly eyes and a beak to make
owls. Let cool and enjoy!
Because you are using melted chocolate, this makes a fun
treat for kids to eat, but not fun for them to make. So, here’s how to make
these kid friendly:
Use white chocolate and dark chocolate covered pretzels
available in stores, then use chocolate frosting in a piping bag and white
frosting in a piping bag. Take the pretzels and place on parchment paper. Frost the back of the googly eyes and attach
the googly eyes to the pretzel. Let harden and enjoy! Kids will get a kick out
of making these and no one gets hurt with melted chocolate.
