How Do You Make Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods?
Make your own delicious gourmet style chocolate covered pretzel rods. These pretzels make great gifts for holiday parties, house warmings and classroom rewards. Use as a fund raiser for your favorite school club, sports team, or scout troop. Different types of chocolate and candy coating have different colors, flavors and effects when used to dip. Try a few to see how they melt, and how quickly they harden. Chocolate contains cocoa butter and chocolate solids. White chocolate has cocoa butter, but no chocolate solids. Candy coatings have neither cocoa butter nor chocolate solids. Instead, they are made from oils such as coconut or palm. They can be any color, and are often flavored with vanilla, hazelnut or almond extracts. Semi-sweet chocolate hardens quickly. It makes a good contrast to sweet centers such as fondant. White chocolate melts smooth, coats well, and can be decorated with colored sugar or painted with tinted chocolate for a more festive look. Using a double boiler on medi
