Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods are one of the easiest homemade treats for holidays, parties, and gift bags. Made in the microwave with just a few simple ingredients, these festive chocolate dipped pretzels are fun to decorate and perfect for Christmas cookie trays, school parties, or edible gifts.
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- Ingredient Notes
- What Kind of Chocolate Should be Used to Make Holiday Pretzel Rods?
- How to Make Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods
- How to Make the Fancy Drizzle
- Decoration & Topping Ideas for Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods
- Recipe Tips
- Storage
- More Treats Made With Pretzels & Chocolate
- Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods
For Christmas this past year I made treat bags for my coworkers and a neighbor that had Cake Mix Cookies, Toffee Snickerdoodles, White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies, Rolo Pretzel Turtles and these Christmas Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods. They were a huge hit and one of my coworkers told me that chocolate-covered pretzels were her all-time favorite Christmas treats.
These are so much fun to make and a great activity for the whole family to get involved in. Little kids love to help make them and teenagers can make them by themselves. Making these could become a family tradition that can be passed down for generations to come.
Ingredient Notes
Just a few simple ingredients are all you need!
- Pretzel Rods – any brand will work, we often use the grocery store brand. Walmart, Kroger and Aldi have great store brand options.
- Milk Chocolate Chips & White Chocolate Chips – we like using a good brand of chocolate but there are many options, see notes below for some suggestions.
What Kind of Chocolate Should be Used to Make Holiday Pretzel Rods?
This is personal preference, use your favorite type of chocolate. We like the savory sweet combo of just about any chocolate or candy melt with the salty pretzel rods.
Chocolate chips, chocolate melts and almond bark are all good options to make chocolate-covered pretzel rods. You can use milk chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate chips, dark chocolate, white chocolate or colored candy melts. Both vanilla and chocolate almond bark are great options that won’t break the bank if you need to make a ton of these.
You can use chocolate bars but they have a lot of sugar so they will melt faster. Chop it into equal-sized small pieces and melt it in 15 second intervals taking care not to leave it in too long.
How to Make Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or wax paper.
- In a microwave-safe bowl or tall glass melt chocolate in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring each time, until chocolate is melted and smooth.
- Dip pretzel rod into melted chocolate, moving it around to get a good even coat onto it. Twist and turn the pretzel rod so that the excess chocolate fall off. Place pretzel rod onto parchment or wax paper, add toppings and or sprinkles, then allow to cool.
How to Make the Fancy Drizzle
Put some white chocolate and dark chocolate into a piping bag or plastic bag with the tip cut off. One for each type of chocolate or color candy melt.
After the first color has set up then drizzle with the opposite color chocolate. I put them in a row and then drizzle over them. Sometimes I just do one at a time and sometimes I do them in a row.
Let them set up and then you have cool looking pretzels with both color chocolates on them.
You can do this with colored candy melts for just about any holiday, party, or gathering.
Decoration & Topping Ideas for Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods
Many of mine, as you can see in the photos, have Christmas sprinkles. Use your choice of sprinkles, but here are some ideas.
Festive Sprinkles, Jimmies, or colored sanding sugar for just about any holiday or event.
- Green for St. Patrick’s Day
- Red for Valentine’s Day
- Pastel colors for Easter
- Red, white and blue for July 4th
- Orange, black, purple and green for Halloween
- Colors that go with the theme of your particular party
- The colors of your favorite sports team for tailgating or home watch parties
Use your favorite toppings but here are a few ideas.
- Chopped nuts
- Shredded coconut
- Toffee bits
- Mini m&ms
- Cinnamon candy
- Mini chocolate chips
- Crushed candy canes
- Crushed hard candy
- Chopped mini peanut butter cups
Recipe Tips
You can let your chocolate pretzel rods set up at room temperature but I am an impatient person so I put them into the refrigerator to set up faster. This is why I put them on a rimmed baking sheet.
Use a spoon to help get the chocolate onto the pretzels.
Put sprinkles and toppings onto wet chocolate so they stick well.
Storage
Store in an airtight container for 2-3 weeks. Although I can’t imagine them lasting that long
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Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods
Ingredients
- 48 pretzel rods
- 1 bag white chocolate chips 11 ounces
- 1 bag milk chocolate chips 11.5 ounces
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or wax paper.
- In a microwave-safe bowl or tall glass melt chocolate in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring each time, until chocolate is melted and smooth.
- Dip pretzel rod into melted chocolate, moving it around to get a good even coat onto it. Twist and turn the pretzel rod so that the excess chocolate falls off.
- Place pretzel rod onto parchment, add sprinkles or your favorite toppings.
- Allow to cool completely before wrapping them or putting them into containers or cellophane bags.
Will this work with sugar free, such as made with Stevia, chocolate ?
I have not tried it but if the chocolate will melt and re-harden then it should work just fine.