Chocolate Pretzel Snowman Craft

By CheeseDiva

Ingredients

• 2 ounces melted orange Candy Melts*
• 1 bag Snyder’s of Hanover Pretzel Dipping Sticks
• 16 ounces melted and tempered pure white chocolate*
• or melted white confectionery coating/Candy Melts
• 8 ounces melted and tempered pure semi-sweet chocolate*
• or melted dark cocoa confectionery coating/Candy Melts
• 24 snowflake sprinkles

Details

Servings 24
Adapted from hungryhappenings.com

Preparation

Step 1

Pour melted orange candy melts into a small zip top bag, and snip off one tip. Pipe small triangle shaped orange carrot noses onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Each nose should be about 3/4 inch long.
Pop tray in freezer for about 2 minutes, until the candy noses are set.

When you open your bag of Dipping Sticks. you will find various pretzel lengths. I found it best to put 6 pretzels of similar size together for the snowman head, then find one that was longer for the brim of the hat.
Dip each of the 6 pretzel sticks into the white chocolate, remove from the chocolate and allow excess to drip back into the bowl then set them next to each other on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.

Pop in the refrigerator if using pure white chocolate and the freezer if using confectionery coating for 3-5 minutes until the chocolate sets.
Allow the pretzels to warm up to room temperature, then dip the un-coated ends into dark chocolate.

Dip one pretzel completely in the dark chocolate, allow excess to drip off and let it sit a minute to begin hardening. Place it at a slight angle just at the bottom edge of the dark chocolate dipped pretzels forming the brim of the snowman’s hat. You can dip all your pretzel brims and allow them to harden before adding them to the snowmen, if you prefer.
Use a food use only paint brush, to paint chocolate eyes and a mouth onto each snowman.

Attach one orange carrot nose to each snowman using a dab of white chocolate.
Chill for 2-3 minutes until hardened.

Use a dab of white chocolate to attach a candy snowflake sprinkle to each hat. I used Wilton’s large white snowflake sprinkles to adorn my hats. You can use any decoration you like. Stars or flowers would be great too. If you want to get fancy, add a band just above the hat brim.

Store in an airtight container for up to a month.