You will need a double boiler, chocolate melts, wax paper, pretzels and any topping you like (i.e. nuts, carmel etc.)
These are the melts that I get, you can get them in Michaels and AC Moore. Walmart sometimes has melts too!
Alright, here are the very simple steps:
First, you need to boil water in the bottom of your double boiler. (I also have a fondue pot that works wonders too for larger batches of chocolate. - If you are using a fondue pot keep the heat super low as to not burn the chocolate.)
After you have boiling water, turn off your burner, and then place the top pan of your double boiler into your bottom half. Fill the top half with the chocolate melts.
Continuously stir the chocolate or it may burn. If the chocolate seems to not be melting fast, you can put your burner back on under the double boiler, but very low! This is how you can burn your chocolate!!
Keep stirring your chocolate until there are no lumps and it is nice and smooth. It should look like this:
Once your chocolate is melted all the way, it's time to dip! Dip your pretzels as far up as you like, if you only go about halfway up the pretzel you get more pretzels per pound of chocolate, but people love mine because I go as far up the pretzel as I can!
After you dip them place them on wax paper to let dry. Continue the process of dipping and placing until you run out of chocolate. While they are still wet you can put our topping on. This batch I left plain. 1 pound of chocolate yielded me about 50 pretzels!
So there you have it, the super easy way of making pretzels! Also, sorry for the sideways cell pictures, but it was all I had on hand when making these last time!
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