Effortless: Chocolate Covered Pretzels
My sister is turning the big 30 this Friday and there will be a big bash! The party is being hosted at a champagne lounge and they will be in charge of the passed appetizers, but I’m in charge of desserts. I’m going with a black, white and gold theme for my dessert table and worked on some chocolate covered pretzels during our snow day.
I know that chocolate covered pretzels are normally effortless to do, but I have always had a hard time with the chocolate. I can never fully melt it with a double boiler and when I use the microwave an extra second can burn it. So I tested out a new method I heard about and it worked! I dusted off the slow cooker that I have had for 10 years and opened it for the first time! You simply need to add mason jars filled chocolate wafers and then fill it half way with water and set it to high. The cover needs to stay off.
It look about an hour to fully melt, but after that it was full steam ahead.
Once the chocolate is melted you simply turn your slow cooker to keep warm or low and now you can dip your pretzels and keep the chocolate at a good consistency.
I filled the mason jars with one bag each of wafers so they were filled pretty high. It made it really easily to simply place my pretzel rod in and swirl around to coat it evenly. If I wanted extra coating I simply used a spoon to extend the coating.
Then you just decorate away! I used gold sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles and brownie crunch.
So happy they are all finished! The slow cooker made things go so smoothly. (pun intended)
Happy munching!
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My living room is one of the rooms that evolved drastically from when we first moved one. Originally I painted the walls chocolate brown and did accents of white, blue and orange. That lasted maybe 2 years.
Our dining room sat empty for months. Okay maybe it was empty for just a handful of weeks and then we couldn’t take it anymore and put in a folding table and plastic outdoor chairs, but in my mind that was still empty.
On the main floor of our house we have a Florida room. Being that it’s a Florida room it is a considered a 3 season room, because there is no heat in the room. The previous owners used it as an indoor patio with outdoor furniture and it looked like this when we moved in.
What a good idea to temper the chocolate in jars so the chocolate is “deeper” may have to make some of these for the big game!
Guess what I’ll be making for the superbowl party?!? My only question: where do I get gold sprinkles and brownie crunch?
I picked them up at AC MOORE. They were Wilton’s.
I use my slow cooker weekly and this will be added to my list of things to make this weekend!!
xo, ash