Cooking With Kids - White Chocolate Pretzels

by Lauri Griffin | More from this Blogger

17 Dec 2007 09:58 PM

I've been looking for easy things for my kids to help with. Tonight we made some pretzels with white chocolate drizzle. They turned out fine, and they have a nice sweet and salty taste. The kids like them better than I do. I thought it would be an easy, easy thing to make since it didn't involve an oven. It's not completely uncomplicated.

We melted white baking chips in the microwave. You can also use a double boiler. If I end up making these again, I will use the double boiler. Microwaving chocolate is very tricky. You need to do it in fifteen second increments. And you need to stir after each fifteen seconds. The chips keep their form for a long time as they melt. So if you don't stir you won't realize how melted the chips actually are and you'll burn them. Some recipes I read added vegetable oil. We ended up adding a couple of tablespoons to get our chips into a drizzling consistency. I was afraid it was too much oil and that it would cause the white chocolate to stay soft and sticky but it hardened up just fine.

A good job for the kids is spreading out waxed paper on the table. They can also lay out the pretzels in a single layer on the waxed paper. You want the pretzels close together so you don't waste so much chocolate. The drizzling of the chocolate was actually more complicated than I'd thought. We stuck a fork in the melted chocolate and let it run off the fork as we moved our hands back and forth across the pretzels. We all found it hard to not drop big clumps. But as the kids pointed out, the big clumps may not be as pretty as the thin drizzles, but you get more chocolate that way.

We sprinkled red sugar on a few of them, but decided the pretzels looked better with just the white chocolate. The white chocolate pretzels were an interesting thing to try. And maybe now that we know what we are doing they would be easy next time.

Also See:

Baked Potato Night - Cooking With Kids

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Lauri lives in Colorado with her husband and three sons. Amidst all the laundry and packing of lunches, she tries to keep parenting fun.

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