This Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels recipe will help you to make a delicious Valentine’s Day treat.
For more ways to celebrate the holiday, check out all of our Valentine’s Day posts.
Edible treats are my favorite. If you don’t know what to get me, you should absolutely make me (or pick me up) a snack.
And I love making them too. Any time we have a pot luck at our community’s clubhouse, I’m brainstorming for weeks about what cute treat I can bring.
If you’re the same way, then I highly recommend our Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels. They’re easy to make — and we actually give you instructions on how to make two versions of these Valentine’s Day pretzels in the post.
That way, they actually look like you purchased them at a store even though you made them in your own kitchen.
This is one of our favorite Valentine’s Day treats on Drugstore Divas, but it’s not our only one. For all of them, check out our 10+ Easy To Make Valentine’s Day Crafts & Treats post.
Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels Recipe
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Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels Ingredients:
- 2 squares (4 oz.) vanilla almond bark
- 36 pretzel twists
- 1/4 oz. Valentine’s Day sprinkles
- 10 red candy melts
How To Make Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels:
Melt the vanilla almond bark according to the package.
The easiest way to do this is to microwave it for one minute, stir it, then microwave it for another 30 seconds, and stir again. Repeat the microwaving for 30 seconds and stirring until the vanilla almond bark is completely melted.
Drop a pretzel into the melted almond bark.
Use a fork to take the pretzel out of the almond bark. Gently tap the fork on the side of the bowl to remove any excess almond bark.
Put the pretzel on a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet.
Immediately sprinkle some Valentine’s Day sprinkles on it. Let it cool.
Continue until you’ve finished 18 of the pretzels.
Now it’s time to work on the other 18.
Drop the pretzels in the vanilla almond bark. Use a fork to remove the pretzel. Tap the fork on the edge of the bowl.
Set the pretzel on the silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet to cool.
Continue until you’ve made all 18 remaining pretzels. Let them cool completely.
Melt the red candy melts in the microwave.
Put the melted candy melts in either a piping bag or a plastic ziptop bag (if you don’t have a piping bag).
Cut off a small tip of the bag.
Drizzle the melted red candy melts on top of the white pretzels in a zig zag pattern.
Let all the pretzels cool completely.
Remove them from the cookie sheet and store them in an airtight container until you’re ready to serve.
Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels: Frequently Asked Questions
Chocolate covered pretzels will take 10 to 20 minutes to dry completely. This depends on the temperature in your home when you’re making the pretzels.
We suggest letting these cool on the counter. That way, the chocolate will dry a consistent color.
Cooling chocolate in the fridge runs the risk of it discoloring as it cools. That doesn’t look great. So, any time we can, we suggest cooling melted chocolate on the counter. It won’t discolor that way.
Vanilla almond bark is preferable because of how it melts. You melt it in the microwave. If it hardens when you’re still using it, you can just microwave it again.
You can’t treat white chocolate chips in the same way. Once they reharden, that’s that. If you try to melt them again, you risk burning them. And then your chocolate won’t ever cover the pretzels. So avoid using chocolate chips if you can.
If that’s all you have, you can make white chocolate chips work. But vanilla almond bark will work better.
If you don’t have a silicone baking mat, I highly recommend you get one. You can use it for lots of things, not just baking.
What’s great about the silicone baking mat is that the chocolate pretzels will pop right off the baking mat after the chocolate has cooled.
If you just cool the chocolate pretzels directly on a cookie sheet, you run the risk of it getting stuck, not popping off, and getting ruined.
Chocolate covered pretzels that are stored in an airtight container in the fridge will last about to two weeks.
That’s great because it means that you can make these now and they’ll still be fresh for Valentine’s Day.
I used pretzel twists in this chocolate covered pretzels recipe because they’re cute and look great as a Valentine’s Day treat.
If you wanted to use pretzel rods, though, you could absolutely do that.
The method is similar in that you’ll want to dip the pretzels, but you don’t want to dip the whole thing. Leave a piece at the end for a handle.
Then, cover it in sprinkles or in red candy melts.
If you’re giving these Valentine’s Day chocolate covered pretzels as a gift, you have two main ways to package them.
First, you can put some paper shred in the bottom of a plastic treat bag, add some pretzels, and then tie with a ribbon. That way isn’t air tight, though, so you will want to tell your recipient to either eat them quickly or store them in a container.
Your second option is to put paper shred in the bottom of a plastic container (like from Chinese take out). Layer the chocolate covered pretzels on top of the paper shred, then close the top on it. That way will keep the pretzels fresher longer than the treat bag way.
Purchase Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels Online:
If you love these chocolate covered pretzels, but you don’t feel like making them yourself, that’s fine. We found a few similar versions that you can purchase online.
- Bright Pink & White Chocolate Covered Pretzel Twists (pictured above)
- Valentine’s Chocolate Pretzel Rods
- Valentine Chocolate Caramel Pretzels
Valentine's Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels
This Valentine's Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels recipe will help you to make a delicious Valentine's Day treat.
Ingredients
- 2 squares (4 oz.) vanilla almond bark
- 36 pretzel twists
- 1/4 oz. Valentine’s Day sprinkles
- 10 red candy melts
Instructions
- Melt the vanilla almond bark according to the package.
- Drop a pretzel into the melted almond bark.
- Use a fork to take the pretzel out of the almond bark. Gently tap the fork on the side of the bowl to remove any excess almond bark.
- Put the pretzel on a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet.
- Immediately sprinkle some Valentine’s Day sprinkles on it. Let it cool. Continue until you’ve finished 18 of the pretzels.
- Now it’s time to work on the other 18. Drop the pretzels in the vanilla almond bark. Use a fork to remove the pretzel. Tap the fork on the edge of the bowl.
- Set the pretzel on the silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet to cool.
- Continue until you’ve made all 18 remaining pretzels. Let them cool completely.
- Melt the red candy melts in the microwave.
- Put the melted candy melts in either a piping bag or a plastic zip top bag (if you don’t have a piping bag).
- Cut off a small tip of the bag.
- Drizzle the melted red candy melts on top of the white pretzels in a zig zag pattern.
- Let all the pretzels cool completely.
- Remove them from the cookie sheet and store them in an airtight container until you’re ready to serve.
Nutrition Information
Yield
36Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 117Total Fat 1gSaturated Fat 0gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 1gCholesterol 0mgSodium 353mgCarbohydrates 25gFiber 1gSugar 2gProtein 3g
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