Patriotic Chocolate Covered Pretzels

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Easy to make American Flag Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Prep Time5

Active Time5

drying and decorating20

Total Time30

Course: Snack

Cuisine: American

Yield: servings

Calories: 165cal

Author: Melissa Haines

Cost: $10

Materials

24 Pretzel Rods
11 oz. White Chocolate Melts some bags come in 12 oz. and that's fine
6 oz. Red Chocolate Melts
11 oz. Royal Blue Chocolate Melts
3 oz. White Star Sprinkles

Instructions

Pour white melts into the mason jar and microwave on high for one minute
Note: You may have to melt the white chocolates in batches as the 16 oz. jar might not hold an entire bag of white melts at once.
Use a kitchen towel to pick up the jar as it will be extremely hot. Stir the chocolate melts until smooth. If needed, place it back in the microwave for another 30 seconds.
Let the jar cool off to the touch.
Pick the jar up and slightly tilt it to force the chocolate to the side of the jar.
Dip pretzel rods into the chocolate and turn it until it is fully coated
Set it onto wax paper to dry
Once the chocolate has hardened, you can start decorating with red and blue chocolate.
In a separate bowl, melt half of the bag of red chocolates
Pour the melted red chocolate into a candy squeeze bottle (if you do not have a squeeze bottle, you can substitute a baggie with the corner snipped off)
Squeeze red chocolate back and forth in a curved snake-like pattern over the bottom 3/4 of the white chocolate.
Once it has hardened, you can pick them up and snap the curves off of the pretzels.
In a separate glass microwave-proof bowl, melt the bag of the blue chocolate melts (use the same method as the white chocolate)
Spoon blue chocolate over the top tips of the pretzels, covering the tips
While the blue chocolate is still melted, add white sprinkle stars
Let chocolate dry and harden

Notes

Nutrition facts are only an estimate

*Note: Other bloggers have instructed dipping the white tip into the blue chocolate. Although this would be an easier and less wasteful method, I did not try it because I knew the white chocolate would start to melt once it was exposed to the heat of the blue chocolate. From my experience, you will end up with swirled blue chocolate on the tips. If you do try dipping the tips into blue chocolate, write back and let me know how it worked out.

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