OMG have you seen these Candy Pretzel Sticks That Rock as Gifts?! Let me tell you that my family is majorly creative! When it comes to the holidays, birthdays, or family get-together or reunions. We love to share our creativity! Check out how cool these candy pretzel sticks are and then see the secret gift box that only costs $1.
Candy Pretzel Sticks That Rock as Gifts
Every year my mom has made it a tradition to create Candy Pretzel Sticks that Rock as Gifts! I’m showing them off to you because you have to get a sneak peek at how easy it is to make them and where to get the fancy boxes!
What You Need
Toll House Nestle Premier White Morsels
Parchment Paper (Wow! I’ve never seen these Parchment Cookie Sheets before!)
Candy Pieces
Pretzels
Gift Boxes
How to Make Candy Pretzel Sticks
First, to start off making the candy pretzel sticks. You will need the following ingredients! Chocolate, Vanilla, and your choice of candy melts or wafers.
Tip: If it’s a birthday use your birthday boy or girl themed colors. If it’s Valentine’s day, I would choose pink, red, and white. If it’s Christmas I would choose white, brown, green, and red!
You will need to warm the candy melts or wafers on the stove or in the microwave. We personally choose to open each bag and pour all of the melts from the one bag (or wafers) in their own microwave-safe bowl. The next thing we did was melt the wafers or melts in increments of 30 seconds a piece.
While the chocolate is melting be sure you lay parchment paper down. After that, you will dip or roll your pretzels 1/2 way to 2/3 of the way down into your choice of chocolate. Covering most of the pretzel but shaking off the excess. You will want to leave a small amount for the receiver to hold the pretzel. This also helps prevents the child or adult receiving the present, not to get their hand chocolatey or yours.
Once you have the candy pretzel sticks covered. You will need to immediately add the candy sprinkles, candy pieces, or edible decor to the chocolate covered pretzel rods. It will allow the decorated sprinkles to stick to the pretzel. You could also choose to drizzle melted candy melts or chocolate chips if desired.
It took our pretzels around 10 minutes to harden and then they were ready for the pretzel bags.
DIY Edible Christmas Gifts
My daughters helped my mom decorate the pretzel rods and they turned out absolutely adorable! On top of that, my mom found these pretzel tins at the Dollar Tree! Best kept secret! That means $1 for each pretzel box! These sweet holiday gifts make such a unique present! Lastly, you could also choose to use stockings to add the decorated candy pretzels to as well. Good Luck!
These are the BEST! I love making them super sweet with extra sprinkles. Easy gift idea.
Yesssss! A gift idea that will work for almost anything too! 🙂
Would never have had the idea myself. These sure look festive enough . Great idea
Thank you so much, Aditi! I am glad you enjoyed them. You are very welcome! Thanks for stopping in. 🙂
this is a great idea for gifting to those you love! I know I’d be excited to receive these!
Thank you! 🙂
You guys did a wonderful job on the candy sticks. I think these would also make great gifts for co-workers at Valentines time.
Thank you, Vanessa! I agree that is such a wonderful idea! 🙂
Who would have thought pretzel could be decorated like this. This quite unique idea. kids would appreciate this gift
My kids LOVED making these too! Especially my daughters both of them were having so much fun decorating the pretzel sticks. 🙂
It is interesting how you worked with ordinary pretzel o come up u with his unusual idea of a candy. The result is a gift that all kids would truly appreciate
Thanks, Ingrid! 🙂
I love how cute these are and how fun they seem to be to make. I’d love making some of these with my niece.
Thank you! I think your niece would love it too! It’s a lot of fun for the kids!