I was inspired to make these the other morning while eating a Peanut Butter Cup (my fave candy, hint hint) and thinking about how good chocolate covered pretzels are. BAM! Pretzels covered in peanut butter and chocolate. It's rlly easy...
Number One: Ingredients
Chocolate chips, pretzels, peanut butter and a cookie sheet lined with foil. Bonus secret ingredient: freezer space for the tray...
Step One: Melt the Peanut Butter
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| Nothing too fancy, the microwave works just fine. |
You can judge about how much peanut butter based on how many pretzels you are using, you should probably stir it a few times to make sure everything gets melty...
Step Two: Put em' in there!
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| EVERYBODY IN THE POOL! |
It was a li'l messy but I found using a fork worked better than a spoon. Get them all nice and coated and then onto the foil lined tray.
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| Sean loves to help! |
FOUR: FREEZER
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| The peanut butter will never really get that hard so 15 or 20 min. in the freezer is fine. |
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Melt the chocolate: I just used chocolate chips and melted them in a bowl in the microwave, stiring every 45 seconds or so. I would tell you how long it took total, but my microwave is wack and doesn't have time settings (or work).
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| Sean loves to help! part two |
Velvety cloak of chocolate: it's pretty hard to get these not to look a little wonky, but they taste excellent (or at least that's what all the drunk people at my house said, and they wouldn't lie)... the peanut butter may come off a little bit in the chocolate, but it's all going back on the pretzel so the overall taste isn't really effected.
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| Toward the end of the process I got a really good technique going of balancing the pretzel on a fork, lowering it into the chocolate and then tapping the fork on the side of the bowl to get the excess off. Lookin' mad professional. This photo is clearly from before I figured that method out. |
TA DA! A whole tray of peanut-butter chocolate pretzels. Really easy unless you are microwave challenged. Freeze these babies for about 15 minutes to set the chocolate and then store in a tupperware in the fridge for safe-keeping.
Chocolate chips, pretzels, peanut butter and a cookie sheet lined with foil. Bonus secret ingredient: freezer space for the tray...
TA DA! A whole tray of peanut-butter chocolate pretzels. Really easy unless you are microwave challenged. Freeze these babies for about 15 minutes to set the chocolate and then store in a tupperware in the fridge for safe-keeping. 
