Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites
Looking for a simple no bake dessert to serve this summer? Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites are it! All you need are 7 ingredients, including creamy peanut butter and bittersweet chocolate. These bite-sized peanut butter desserts are the perfect combination of salty and sweet.
Servings 38 pretzel bites
Calories 264kcal
Ingredients
- 76 mini pretzel twists
- ½ cup creamy unsweetened peanut butter (150g)
- ¼ cup dark brown sugar lightly packed (60g)
- ¾ cup powdered sugar 96g
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 oz. bittersweet chocolate chopped
- 1 tablespoon salted butter
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
- Line up all the mini pretzel twists on the baking sheet. Set aside.
- Measure the peanut butter, dark brown sugar, powdered sugar and vanilla into a large bowl. Use a hand mixer to beat the ingredients together until combined. It will be crumbly, and that’s OK. Pinch a bit of it and see if it forms a ball, as well as sticks to itself, without sticking to your hands. If it does, you’re good to go. If it’s too crumbly, add 1-2 tablespoons of peanut butter and mix again until the desired consistency is reached.
- Use a teaspoon to measure out the peanut butter mixture into your hand.
- Gently form into a ball.
- Place the peanut butter ball onto one of the pretzels, and press another pretzel on top to form the sandwich.
- Repeat until all the bites have been made, and then refrigerate for 1 hour.
- While the pretzel bites chill, melt the chocolate with the butter in the microwave in 30-second bursts until melted. (You could also do this in a double boiler.)
- Dip the chilled bites into the chocolate, and place back onto the baking sheet.
- Chill for another 30 minutes, or until the chocolate is set.
- Enjoy!
Notes
These Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites will keep in the fridge for up to two weeks.
Variations and ideas to change these up:
- Use different chocolate. If you don’t like bittersweet chocolate, feel free to use another type of chocolate instead.
- Dress them up. Once the Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites are dipped in the chocolate, you can add a sprinkle of sea salt, colorful sprinkles or even chopped peanuts to add texture and color.
- Get fancy with it! For these photos, I chose to dip the pretzel bites, but you could easily drizzle the chocolate over the pretzels for a different (and fancier!) look. You could also dip the bites, then drizzle with a different type of chocolate, like white chocolate.
- Make them gluten free by using gluten free pretzels.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 serving | Calories: 264kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 719mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5g
