This Halloween Candy Bark with a pretzel crust is a really simple and fun Halloween dessert. The perfect salty-sweet Halloween treat that everyone loves! A great party finger food.
Halloween Candy Bark Recipe
Are you looking for fun Halloween Party Foods? Try some of my other ideas, like Mummy Hot Dogs and Bloody Graham Cracker Band-Aids and Vampire Cheesecake Bites.
Table of contents
How do you Melt Chocolate Melts?
- Pour chocolate melts into a microwave-proof glass bowl
- Microwave on high for 1 minute
- Use a silicone spoon to stir the chocolate until smooth
- If needed, microwave for 30 seconds longer and stir until smooth
Are you ready to make this delicious candy bark? let’s make sure you have everything you need…
Ingredients You’ll Need:
- wax paper
- A baking pan (cookie sheet)
Crust
- 4 cups of pretzels
- 1/4 cup of sugar
- 1/2 cup of melted butter (1 stick)
- 1 bag (12 oz.) of White Chocolate melts
Toppings:
- mini pretzel twists
- candy eyes
- candy corn
- candy pumpkins
- black cookie frosting with a writing tip
- Halloween M&Ms
How to Make Halloween Candy Bark
- Line the cake pan with wax paper
- Crush the 4 cups of pretzels by using a blender or place them in a zip-tight bag and roll a heavy roller over them
- pour the crushed pretzels into a large bowl
- mix in sugar and melted butter
- press the pretzel mixture onto the wax-lined baking sheet
- bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes
- let cool – the crust will still be loose
- melt the chocolate
- pour over the pretzel crust, and spread out across the pretzel crust
- *it’s ok if some of the pretzels end up in your white chocolate. It will be topped with candy – soon enough
- decorate candy pumpkins with faces made from the black cookie frosting
- now, add pretzel twists, decorated pumpkin candy, M&Ms, candy corn, and place some eyes into the pretzel twists to make fun faces
- place into the refrigerator for about 10 minutes to harden
- use a pizza cutter to cut the bark into large pieces and bite-sized pieces
Delicious Halloween Candy Bark {with a Pretzel Crust!}
Equipment
- wax paper
- baking pan
Ingredients
Crust
- 4 cups pretzels
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ cup melted butter 1 stick
- 1 12 oz. chocoalte melts White Chocolate melts
Toppings:
- 24 mini pretzel twists
- 50 candy eyes
- ½ cup candy corn
- ½ cup candy pumpkins
- ½ cup black cookie frosting with a writing tip
- ½ cup Halloween M&Ms
Instructions
- line the cake pan with wax paper
- crush the 4 cups of pretzels by using a blender or place them in a zip tight bag and roll a heavy roller over them
- pour the crushed pretzels into a large bowl
- mix in sugar and melted butter
- press the pretzel mixture onto the wax-lined baking sheet
- bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes
- let cool – the crust will still be loose
- melt the chocolate
- pour over the pretzel crust, and spread out across the pretzel crust
- *it’s ok if some of the pretzels end up in your white chocolate. It will be topped with candy – soon enough
- decorate candy pumpkins with faces made from the black cookie frosting
- now, add pretzel twists, decorated pumpkin candy, M&Ms, candy corn, and place some eyes into the pretzel twists to make fun faces
- place into the refrigerator for about 10 minutes to harden
- use a pizza cutter to cut the bark into large pieces and bite-sized pieces
Notes
Nutrition
~Melissa – KidFriendlyThingsToDo.com