Monster Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Rods are a fun and easy way to make some SPOOKY Halloween Treats.

Dipped in colored chocolate and decorated with FESTIVE sprinkles and candies, these Halloween Pretzels are perfect for kids, neighbors, coworkers, friends, or family!

This post is sponsored by Dixie Crystals as part of #HalloweenTreatsWeek. This recipe and all opinions expressed here are my own.

If you’d rather skip my (very helpful, I think) tips and tricks, essential cooking info, and similar recipe ideas – and get straight to this delicious recipe – simply scroll to the bottom of the page where you can find the printable recipe card.

Halloween is my favorite holiday! I love all things scary movies, costume parties, and all of course, all the sweets and treats!

Not only do I have a sweet tooth like nobody’s business, every year I look forward to buying all the fun candies and sprinkles to decorate all the treats!

I clean the craft stores out of all the candy eyes, gummy spiders, and skeleton bones I can get my hands on.

It’s so fun coming up with ways to decorate cakes, cupcakes, make snack mixes, and my favorite, dipped pretzel rods!

I’m going to show you how to make spooky pretzel rods and I will share with you a tip on how to keep your chocolate melted for easier dipping.

What is the best chocolate for dipping?

When making homemade dipped pretzels, go for the good stuff. If you can get solid chocolate made for baking and cooking, that’s the best best.

Chocolate chips are made so they maintain their shape when baked in cookies and other treats so they won’t melt the best.

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What do you dip pretzels in?

For these dipped pretzel rods, you need to start with white chocolate or candy melts so that you can color them as you want.

I prefer the candy melts because white chocolate has a yellowish tint which might affect the final color you want.

Also, when coloring your chocolate or candy, make sure that you use food coloring that is not water based. This will cause it to “seize” up or become stiff and crumbly.

• Pretzel Rods or Pretzel Sticks
• Candy Melts/White Chocolate
• Food coloring (safe for chocolate)
• Sprinkles and Decorations

How do you melt chocolate for pretzel sticks?

Because you are dipping and decorating you need to keep the chocolate warm. The best way I have found is the crock pot.

I melt my coatings in tall jars (because the pretzels are long) and keep them warm and smooth by standing the jars in a crock pot with water.

This allows me to dip a few pretzels and add the decorations while the chocolate coating is still wet so they stick to the pretzels.

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How to dip pretzel rods

STEP ONE: Add your chocolate to a jar and place in a crockpot with a few inches of water. Stir occasionally to keep the chocolate smooth.

STEP TWO: Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Dip your pretzel rod into the chocolate and shake to remove the excess.

STEP THREE: Place the pretzel rod on the parchment paper and add the decorations. Let set up. Store in an air tight container for up to 1 week or wrap in festive treat bags and give away as edible gifts.

How far in advance can I make chocolate covered pretzel rods?

Once dipped, the white chocolate covered pretzel rods will last for up to 2 weeks!

Do not store in the refrigerator or the freezer. This will affect the chocolate coating and cause the colors to run.

How do you package dipped pretzel rods?

I like to store mine in clear treat bags and wrap with festive colored ribbon to match the occasion.

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Take Two Tapas Tips for Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Rods

• set up a decorating station or assembly line ahead of time so you are ready to have fun.
• you can line a baking sheet with wax paper or parchment paper.
• keep the chocolate melted and soft by keeping the jars of candy coating in a crock pot or slow cooker.
• If you want to make specific monsters or ghouls, sketch out how you want them to look. This was you won’t be draw a blank when you start decorating.
• gather all your decorations in separate bowls and jars right by you baking sheet so you won’t be scrambling once the pretzels are dipped.
• shake off the excess chocolate once you dip the pretzels so when you place them on the parchment paper the chocolate won’t “pool” on the bottom.
• draw faces and small marks with edible food markers.

These white chocolate dipped pretzel rods are a great way to get the kids into the holiday spirit!

Give these Halloween Pretzel Rods as delicious edible gifts!

Other Halloween Treats

• mummy pups
• mummy munch
• graveyard grub
• flying monkeys punch
• great pumpkin punch
• day of the dead hats

Halloween Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Take a look more spooky Halloween recipes from our #HalloweenTreatsWeek Bloggers today:  Halloween Cookies & Bars:

• Cake Mix Monster Cookies from Big Bear’s Wife
• Candy Bar Cookies from Devour Dinner
• Oreo Mummy Cookies from Savory Experiments
• Easy Halloween Cake Mix Sprinkle Cookies from Family Around the Table
• Halloween Sugar Cookie Bars from House of Nash Eats
• Eye Love Chocolate Sugar Cookies from An Affair From the Heart
• Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars form Back To My Southern Roots

  Halloween Cakes & Cupcakes:

• Bloody Broken Glass Red Velvet Cake from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks 
• Halloween Bats Oreo Cupcakes from Lemon Blossoms
• Pumpkin Cupcakes with Maple Frosting from The Flour Handprint

Halloween Brownies:

• The Scream Brownies from West Via Midwest
• Halloween Monster Chocolate Cake Brownies from JZ Eats
• Halloween Marshmallow Brownies from Sweet Beginnings

Halloween Pies:

• Halloween Mini S’mores Pudding Pies from For the Love of Food
•  Jack Skellington Boo-berry Pie from Savory Moments

Halloween Breakfast:

• Halloween Smoothie Bowl from Fresh Coast Eats
• Halloween Pancakes from I Am A Honeybee
• Pumpkin Spice Donuts from Pastry Chef Online

Halloween Drinks:

• Bloody Hot Cocoa from It’s Shanaka

Chilled Halloween Treats:

• Pennywise Ice Cream Float from Cheese Curd in Paradise
• Wicked Witch Popsicles from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures

No Bake Desserts:

• Muddy Buddy Halloween Snack Mix from Tastes of Homemade
• Candy Corn Rice Crispy Treats from The Spiffy Cookie
• Kid-Friendly Halloween Snack Board from Love and Confections
• Rice Krispie Treat Haunted Houses from Sweet ReciPEAS
• Ghostly Snack Mix from Fake Ginger
• Spooky Pretzel Rods from Take Two Tapas
• Halloween Candy Bark from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
•  Batty For Chocolate Dessert Cheese Ball from 4 Sons R Us  
•  Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Dip from Strawberry Blondie Kitchen

Happy Halloween!

Spooky Season is here and it is time for 2020’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event! #HalloweenTreatsWeek is a yearly Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife  & its a creepy and haunting week-long event is filled with some amazingly wicked Halloween treats, recipes and some frightfully fun giveaways.

“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ‘tis near Halloween.”

For the 3rd annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event we have 30 hauntingly talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week! Follow the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media and look at the bottom of each post to see all of the Halloween recipes that we’re sharing!

Plus, don’t forget that we have some great giveaways for you this week thanks to our amazing sponsor and bloggers this year!  

Prize #1 from Dixie Crystals

OXO Good Grips 3-Piece Stainless-Steel Mixing Bowl Set

 

Prize #2 from Angie at BigBearsWife 

Ninja OP301 Foodi 9-in-1 Pressure, Slow Cooker, Air Fryer and More, with 6.5 Quart Capacity and 45 Recipe Book, and a High Gloss Finish

Prize #3 from Nicole Taggart’s Origami Owl Jewelry Bar

Origami Owl Locket and Halloween Charms

 

Prize #4 from Kathy at Lemon Blossoms 

6 Quart Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker

 

Prize #5 from Terri at Our Good Life

Young Living’s Thieves Mints ($50 Value)

Pop a Thieves Mint into your mouth for cinnamint-fresh breath after meals. Made with naturally derived ingredients and free of artificial sweeteners, dyes, and preservatives, Thieves Mints are a choice you can feel good about. Created with Young Living’s Thieves essential oil blend, these mints deliver minty coolness with a hint of warm, sugar-free sweetness. Thieves Mints come in a conveniently sized container that is great to take on the go!!

 

Prize #6 from Julie  at Back To My Southern Roots

1 Copy of  – The Peanuts Family Cookbook: Delicious Dishes for Kids to Make with Their Favorite Grown-Ups

 

Prize #8 from Peabody of Sweet ReciPEAS

1 Copy of her new cookbook “Holy Sweet! 60 Indulgent Recipes for Bigger, Better Desserts”

 

Prize #9 from Megan of Strawberry Blondie Kitchen

1 Copy of her cookbook, “Incredible One-Pot Cooking: Easy, Delicious Recipes for Exciting Meals Without the Mess”

 

Prize #10 from Nicole of For the Love of Food Blog

1 Copy of “Friends: The Official Cookbook”

 

Prize #11 from Michaela from An Affair from the Heart, Jennifer from Take Two Tapas and Michele from West Via Midwest

ONE (1) $75 Amazon gift card

 

Prize #12 from Shanaka from It’s Shanaka

ONE (1) $25 Amazon gift card

 

Prize #13 from Ashley from Cheese Curd In Paradise

1 Copy of her cookbook, ” The Serial Killer Cookbook: True Crime Trivia and Disturbingly Delicious Last Meals from Death Row’s Most Infamous Killers and Murderers”

 

Prize #14 from Amy from House of Nash Eats

ONE (1) $100 Amazon gift card

  a Rafflecopter giveaway   Giveaway open to US Residents 18 years or older. All entries will be verified. No PO Boxes Please. Prizes will be sent directly from sponsors to winners, bloggers are not responsible for prizes. This giveaway runs from October 5th – October 10th at 11:59PM EST. Winners will be selected soon afterward and contacted by e-mail. Winners will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. There are a total of 14 prizes and therefore we will have a total of 14 winners. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law. Disclaimer: These posts and recipes are part of the week-long event, #HalloweenTreatsWeek but all opinions are 100% mine! We would like to Thank our amazing brand sponsors: Dixie Crystals that provided a prize pack for our giveaways and also sent some samples and products to the #HalloweenTreatsWeek bloggers to use in their recipes. We would also love to give a huge thanks to our Halloween Treats Week bloggers because a lot of them also donated prizes for the giveaways, including:  Angie of BigBearsWife ,  Nicole of Nicole Taggart’s Origami Owl Jewelry Bar, Kathy of Lemon Blossoms,  Terri of Our Good Life,  Julie of Back To My Southern Roots,  Peabody of Sweet ReciPEAS, Megan of Strawberry Blondie Kitchen, Nicole of For the Love of Food Blog, Michaela of An Affair from the Heart, Jennifer of Take Two Tapas , Michele of West Via Midwest, Shanaka of It’s Shanaka, Ashley of Cheese Curd In Paradise, and Amy from House of Nash Eats!

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