Santa and Tree Pretzel Rods

Name: Santa and Tree Pretzel Rods
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters pink candy melts, melted; 118 milliliters white candy melts, melted; 237 milliliters green candy melts, melted; 3 Tbsps dark cocoa candy melts, melted; 16 mini chocolate chips; 4 red fruit slices, halved crosswise; 473 milliliters mini marshmallows, halved crosswise; 3 Tbsps M&Ms Minis, mixed colors, plus 4 red; 12 pretzel rods; 4 homemade or store-bought puffed-rice-cereal marshmallow treats; 8 larges pink heart sprinkles; 2 Tbsps yellow sparkling sugar; 4 yellow spice drops, flattened, cut into small stars

Santan and Tree Pretzel Rods might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe makes 12 servings with 258 calories, 1g of protein, and 6g of fat each. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 1 person found this recipe to be scrumptious and satisfying. Head to the store and pick up pink candy melts, cocoa candy melts, chocolate chips, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Line a baking sheet with waxed paper. Make trees: Trim long side of rice cereal treats to form triangles. Make an indent at flat end of each treat to insert a pretzel.

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Pretzels

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Rice

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Baking Sheet

Dip tips of 4 pretzels into green melts; insert each into a rice cereal treat.

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Pretzels

Cereal

Rice

Dip

Place on baking sheet; chill until set, 5 minutes. Dip a cereal treat into green melts to coat.

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Cereal

Dip

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Baking Sheet

Let excess drip off; place on baking sheet and chill 5 minutes. Dip remaining pretzels in pink melts to coat 3 inches of end.

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Pretzels

Dip

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Baking Sheet

Transfer to baking sheet; chill 5 minutes.

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Baking Sheet

Spoon melted white and dark cocoa melts into separate ziplock bags; seal bags. Snip small corners off bags. Pipe a drizzle of dark cocoa on each pretzel near base of tree. Pipe loops of white melts over trees; sprinkle with yellow sugar. Pipe dots of melted candy and attach M&M's Minis as lights. Press spice-drop stars on top of trees. Chill until set, about 5 minutes.

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Pretzels

Base

Cocoa Powder

M&ms

Sugar

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Ziploc Bags

Make Santas: Use icing to attach a cut fruit slice at top of pretzel as hat. Pipe white melts; attach cut marshmallows as hat trim, beard and mustache. Attach mini chocolate chips as eyes; cut red M&M's Minis in half and attach as nose. Attach pink heart dcors as mouth. Chill until set, 5 minutes.

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Mini Chocolate Chips