Pumpkin Pretzels!

Happy (almost) Halloween everyone! I was doing my daily catch up on Pinterest this past Friday, and I stumbled across this cute little snack. Pumpkin pretzels! After I looked over the recipe, I decided to quick make a batch because my parents were going to a football game that night, and it would fit perfectly into my moms purse.

Honestly, this treat took me about 20 minutes, total. This includes time for the chocolate to harden up. Yeah, these are like a little piece of heaven.

So, you will need:
1  bag of smaller pretzels (salted, unsalted, doesn't matter)
1 bag or bar of white chocolate
1 Tablespoon of shortening
Green M&M's
Orange food coloring

Melt the chocolate and the shortening together as according to directions on the chocolate wrapping. The shortening makes the chocolate thinner so that it's easier to dip the pretzels in. Don't substitute anything else for the shortening though. Butter, milk, water...NO! Don't do it, you will ruin the consistency and probably the taste too, so just take my advice and don't do it.

Add a few drops (or however much you see necessary) of foodcoloring, to make the chocolate orange. Mix this up well so you don't have chunks of the food coloring lingering around, that would be nasty to bite into. I suppose that you don't have to color the preztels, such as for Christmas, my mother and I dip Christmas preztels into the plain white chocolate, it just depends on the kind of presentation you want.

Next, dip the preztels in the chocolate and place on wax paper. I use a fork for this so that my fingers don't get all messy. Another advantage of this is that you aren't left with a small part without chocolate, because your fingers were there. Overall, how you want to do this is your decision.

Place the M&M in the part where the 2 strips of pretzel come together, as you can see from the picture above. Let the chocolate harden for about 5 minutes and enjoy!

And there you have it, a wonderfully quick snack. Even boys could make this, no offense guys but not many of you can bake! I figured, tis the season, why not post about pumpkins!