Sweet and Salty Treats

Dear Reader-

You know those cookies or snacks that just scream the Holidays?

Well in my family these Sweet and Salty Treats are it.

I can remember making these candies with mom year after year.

3 ingredients to the perfect Holiday snack.

Something Salty + Coating  + Sprinkles

Now, the something salty could be anything from peanuts to pretzels (I wouldn’t recommend French fries… just sayin’).

Our favorite salty components have always been pretzels and Ritz crackers…

This time around I used Ritz Snowflake Crackers and Holiday Shaped Pretzels.

I was recently in the grocery store and saw a pound bag of white chocolate pretzels for $10!!!

I think I may have paid $5 for this gigantic tub of pretzel fun.

Anyhoo… you take something salty and set it aside…

Then you choose a coating… it could be chocolate, white chocolate, butterscotch chips, almond bark, etc.

I used Dove White Chocolate and Ghirardelli Classic White Chips.

Almond Bark is a coating I use often as well.

Now melt your coating according to your package’s instructions…

You will want to stir and heat until it is super melty(technical term)…

And the chocolate drizzles from your spoon…

Now dunk your salty into your coating

And flip

Now use a fork or candy fork to pull your treat out of the the coating and tap the fork on the side of the bowl to let all the excess coating drizzle off the candy.

And then scrape the bottom across the side of the bowl before placing on a wax paper covered plate…

Then sprinkle with sprinkles 😉

Note: I would NOT recommend using a cooling rack like I did… thought I was being sooo clever….

Until I tried removing them…

Those BABIES were stuck like edible glue…

Yummy delicious glue… but glue none-the-less.

There were casualties… but fear not, there was plenty of help to clean up the evidence ;).

Anyhoo, turns out mom’s old fashioned wax paper and plate was a far superior method for letting these treats dry.

You can pop the plate into the freezer to speed up the setting process.

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