I picked up these cute Wilton pretzel molds at Joann yesterday for $1.39 each. William picked out the ghosts and the haunted houses, and Violet chose the skeleton fingers.
My mom used to make molded candies with us when my brothers and I were little, so I thought it would be fun to make these with William and Violet. I didn’t buy the colored Wilton chocolate meltable tabs at the store, though, because I was never that crazy about them…they look beautiful, but I don’t like how they taste (and anyway, who has time to paint all that colored detail on them? Not me.). So I just used some semi-sweet chocolate chips that I had around (I’m also planning on using peanut butter chips that I have also…I think the pretzels would taste great half peanut butter and half chocolate).
All I did was put the chips into a plastic bag, microwave them in 30 second intervals until the chips were melted, and cut a small hole in the bottom of the bag. I let the kids pipe the chocolate into the mold (filled halfway, put the pretzel in, then turned it and filled the remaining mold with chocolate per the package instructions).
And here the pretzels are being enjoyed…don’t they look tasty?!
Oh, yum. We are planning on pumpkin suckers sometime this week. Looks like your kids enjoyed them!