Chocolate Covered Pumpkin Pretzels

By vpitts2004

Ingredients

• Big and small pretzels
• Orange candy melts
• Orange sprinkles
• Green candy melts
• Chocolate pieces (a hershey bar or chocolate melts)
• ziplock bag
• leaf tip
• small round tip
• plastic wrap
• coupler set

Preparation

Step 1

I didn't take step by steps photos since I have done pretzels so many times here before. These little guys can be made using the same process as the apples with just a few changes. Instead of using the rips this time I piped on the leaves with green candy melts and I also covered the the pretzels in sprinkles. I used orange wilton candy melts for these and once covered they were more of a peach so the sprinkles gave them the pumpkin orange I was looking for. You can find more tricks and tips on how to cover pretzels here and the apple pretzel post here.


And here are a few tips (pun intended) on how I made the leaves. This if by far the easiest way I have found to melt and decorate with chocolate. No scrapping the bowl or pouring warm chocolate and easy clean up. A little less clean up is always a fav here. Of course you can use a pastry bag but I opt for a cheapie bag when it's such a small amount like this. I used wilton #2 tip for the vines and for the leaves I used a wilton #352 and a smaller version that was unmarked. You could use the same size leaf tip however.