Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels Rods

Chocolate Covered Valentine Pretzels are the easiest Valentine’s Day treat to make! With only 3 ingredients and a few minutes of time you can have these easy kid friendly Valentine’s Day treats done and ready to enjoy!

Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels Rods

Every sweetie need something sweet for Valentines day. These Chocolate Pretzel Rods may look like they were hard to make but they are very simple.

As you all know I love the holidays, all of the holidays. I love making things fun and festive for the kids and I enjoy making the day fun!

I need things to be super easy to make or I will never get them done. These Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels Rods I can make a few days in advanced and then set them out on Valentine’s Day morning as a treat for the kids.

I like to have a fun and festive Valentine’s Day Breakfast including egg in a heart, then pack the kids lunches with Valentine’s day Treats and then make a fun Valentine’s Day dinner. Of course if we are having all the meals to celebrate then we also have to have dessert too! These Valentine’s Day pretzels are perfect!

If you are looking for a great Valentine’s Day party treats, these Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels Rods are perfect! You can make them and then wrap them in plastic or a plastic treat bag with a red or pink ribbon and you have an easy Valentine’s Day treat gift.

Looking for more Valentine’s Day treats? Check these out!

• Heart Shaped Meringue Cookies
• Valentine’s Day Popcorn
• Heart Bacon
• Chocolate Covered Strawberry French Toast
• Fruit Love Bugs
• Heart Quesadilla
• Strawberry White Chocolate Hot Chocolate Bombs

Tips for Making Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Use Chocolate melts. Most of the time when I am wanting to make a chocolate treat I say to use chocolate, however for these you want to use chocolate melts. If you are wanting them to be different colors the best way is to get the precolored melting chocolate instead of trying to use food coloring and white chocolate melts. You can do that but I find it makes it harder when melting.

Use a tall glass. Dipping long pretzel rods is much easier with a tall drinking glass then using a bowl.

Melt the chocolate in a tall glass. Use a tall glass when melting the chocolate melts and the shortening together so you are able to easily coat the whole pretzel rod with the chocolate.

If you do not want to melt the chocolate in the microwave, you can use a double boiler. After melting the chocolate melts and shortening pour the melted chocolate into a tall glass.

Dip while the chocolate is still warm. To get the most sanding sugar on the bottom of the marshmallows you want to dip them in the sanding sugar as soon as you have dipped them in the chocolate.

How to Store Chocolate Covered Pretzels

After the chocolate has hardened, store them in an air tight container, they will keep at room temperature for up to 2 weeks at room temperature.

Chocolate Covered Valentine Pretzels Ingredients

• 1 12 ounce bag red, pink or white chocolate melts
• 1 tablespoon shortening
• 12 ounces Pretzel rods
• Valentines day sprinkles

How to Make Chocolate Covered Valentine Pretzels

Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.

Pour your chocolate melts and shortening into a tall glass.

Microwave for 30 seconds than stir, keep repeating until all the chocolate is melted.

Dip the pretzel rods covering most of the pretzel with chocolate.

Lay them out on your sheet pan. Sprinkle with sprinkles onto the pretzel rods before the chocolate dries.

Let the chocolate set for an hour.

Looking for more Chocolate covered treats? Check these out!

• Chocolate Covered Strawberry cupcakes
• How to make chocolate covered cherries
• Chocolate covered meringue cookies
• Frozen Chocolate covered Bananas
• Chocolate covered Oreo cookies