Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark
I’m all about easy this Christmas. Give me all the yummy treats as long as I can make them in like 10 minutes or less with little fuss. I’m also apparently on a huge salted caramel kick. It must be because my salted caramel chocolate butter bars were so good, I’m now craving the combo like it’s going out of style. Fortunately, this salted caramel pretzel chocolate bark meets all my criteria.
Easy? Check!
Full of salted caramel and chocolate? Double check!
How’s that for a winning combo this time of year? I just can’t get enough of the salty sweet combo. It’s so good. And, making this candy is such a good excuse to use sprinkles! Cue excessive use of exclamation marks!!! I love any excuse to use sprinkles. Really, sprinkles are the glitter of the dessert world. In a good way though, not like rice cereal which is the annoying glitter of the food world that gets everywhere and I find myself cleaning out from between the floor boards and the slip covers. But that’s another story.
This candy takes less than 10 minutes to throw together. And it doesn’t even require the use of a stove or oven. Just a microwave, two bowls, and tray lined with wax paper. Then just like that, you’ve got a tray of this that would be the perfect candy to serve as Christmas dessert. Or if you’re me, you pick at it all day long. Because before you know it’s 5 pm and the only actual food you’ve eaten is this…and 3 very large cups of coffee.
I’m not the only one in this house that loves this candy. Goose loves it too.
In fact she loves it so much that she might have photobombed my photo session.
Or, you know totally interrupted it and made it grind to a screeching halt.
If you follow along with me on Instagram, you know that she’s often underfoot while I am doing my food pictures. Most times, she just wants to take pictures too with her play camera so she can be like mommy. (Be still my heart.)
Other times, like when we made the easy baked corn, she gets a little excited.
And totally takes over the shoot. This time, she crawled up onto the table that I use to set my shoots up and helped herself.
In case you’re wondering, yes, that is a sprinkle in her hair.
Clearly, Goose loves Sprinkles too. Or at least considers them the glitter of the hair accessory world for toddlers.
Ingredients
- 3 cups of chocolate chips
- 3/4 cups of caramel bits
- 2 tablespoons of milk or cream
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla
- 1 cup of pretzels coarsely crushed*
- sea salt to taste
- sprinkles optional
Instructions
- Place the 3 cups of chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl. Melt the chocolate by microwaving on high for 30 seconds and then stirring. Microwave for 15 seconds, then stir again. Repeat this process until the chocolate is smooth.
- Pour about 2/3 of the melted chocolate onto wax paper on a cookie tray. Spread the chocolate out with a rubber spatula until the chocolate layer is about 1/4" thick.
- Pour the coarsely crushed pretzels out over the melted chocolate evenly.
- Add the caramel bits to a microwave safe bowl with a 1/8 of a cup of milk or cream. Microwave on high for 30 seconds and then stir before microwaving again for 15 seconds, stirring after. Continue the 15 second increments and stirring until the caramel and milk are smooth. Stir in vanilla.
- Spoon the caramel over the pretzels and chocolate. Sprinkle on sea salt.
- Spoon the remaining chocolate over the mixture. Add sprinkles if desired.
- Let harden in the fridge for at least an hour prior to breaking it apart.
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I never realized how simple chocolate bark was to make! These look amaaaaaaaazing by the way!
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Thank you!
This looks so great! I need to try this out!
Enjoy!
I want this now! This looks amazing. It looks like the kids liked it too.
Lol yep! Kids LOVE it. At least mine did. 🙂
Sounds incredibly easy to make!
So easy. Just need a microwave!
I love a good chocolate bark, especially a festive one! And your Goose is soooo adorable.
Thanks Sharon <3
I love the sweet + salty combo! This would get eaten so quickly in my home!
Ohhh it doesn’t last long here either!
OK, I’d probably eat all of that before anyone else even had a chance to…
#truelife
My daughter’s with me as I’m looking at this and she said ‘That looks pretty good!” 🙂
Haha tell your daughter I say thank you and that it is pretty good 🙂
OMG! Please overnight this to my house! Sweet and salty is my jam. This looks super easy too!
Lol right? Sweet and salty is sooooo good!
That looks so tasty, and your little one is adorable!!
Thank you Leah! <3
This looks SO tasty!! I love making things like this during the holidays!!
Me too! Easy treats are the way to go this time of year!
Adorbs. I might have to try the recipe too.
Thanks Miri!
These look delicious and I’m thrilled that they are so easy to put together! Definitely making some for the kids this week, thank you for sharing.
Enjoy!!
This looks very festive and yummy to eat. Perfect for the little ones in our lives.
Indeed on all accounts 🙂
So festive and delicious, and what a cutie that little one is!
Thank you!!
LOVE This recipe! Was just going to make this for teachers gifts. And can I just say “Sprinkles are the glitter in the dessert world” is my favorite line EVER! =)
Hahahaha thank you. It’s true though, isn’t it??
I am ALL about the low-fuss holiday treats! This looks delicious and super easy, I’m sure my daughter would get chocolate all over her face too 🙂
It’s like a rule or something that if you give a small child chocolate they will end up using it as a beauty treatment.
these pictures are adorable! i love her unicorn shirt, haha! I need to try this recipe!
Lol thank you! She’s sort of obsessed with it. She’s fascinated by horsies these days. Hope you like the recipe.
I friggin love chocolate bark…even more so with caramel and pretzels added in! I would be scarfing this down!
Ummmm…hangs head shamefully…ask me what I scarfed down for breakfast this morning….
Mmmm… these look delicious. They look like they were a big hit.
Haha yep!
oh my – looks so yummy! ill be making this for christmas
Thanks Jackie!
Oh wow, this looks amazing! Super fun & creative.
Thank you Shana!
I want it all!! all my faves in one dessert?! YUM!
Thank you!
What an adorable little girl! Her smile is enough proof that these salted caramel pretzel chocolate bark treats are really good!
Aw thank you! Yes that was the biggest smile I’ve managed to catch in a photo in a good long while. Must remember the secret…give child chocolate, child will smile for photos!
Totally absolutely need to try these!!! 🙂
Enjoy! They are so easy!
Wow, only by looking at the photos I want to eat it NOW!!!
Thank you Doris!
Haha, looks like someone was really happy with these yummy chocolate treats 🙂 They seem really delicious! X
Lol yes! She was quite thrilled!
This sounds easy and yummy to make.
So easy and yummy! I’ve been snacking on it all week!
She’s so sweet! And the bark… YUM!
Thank you and I totally LOL’d at the pun. Yes she is extra sweet with all that chocolate she’s wearing! haha
Oh yummy these look amazing!! And what a cutie!! It looks like she really enjoyed them!
Oh my gosh! This sounds so yummy!
Making chocolate bark this time of year is one of my favorite things to do!! It’s so easy and delish! I’ve never made it with pretzels and sprinkles though! Definitely giving this recipe a whirl next week!
Sprinkles are seriously my everything. Add them. Food glitter 🙂
Ooh I have a serious weakness for salty/sweet treats especially salted caramel, chocolate and pretzels so I NEED this!
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