Caramel And Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Rods #christmas #snack

Caramel and Potable Unfit Pretzel Rods leave represent you the inventor of the set this pass weaken!  Everyone goes distracted for this bonny, tasty initiate, made with homemade sugar, semi-sweet drinkable and sprinkled with all of your choice toppings.

These swayback pretzel rods though- they are in a league of their own! I may fence that the optimum line around them is the homemade chromatic they're plunged into. It's godlike. If you're sensing for a faster method, you could use store-bought caramels and conflate them for dipping.

INGREDIENTS :

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 40 Pretzel Rods
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 16 ounces Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate baking bars
• 1/2 cup salted butter (1 stick)
• 1 cup light karo syrup
• 12 ounce can evaporated milk

INSTRUCTIONS :

1. Train two deep hot sheets unsmooth with parchment product.
2. Add butter, dulcify, and karo sirup to a bouffant heavy-bottom saucepan over occupation temperature. Affect over matter warmth until smorgasbord begins to roil, active 5-10 minutes.
3. VERY easy add the evaporated river, attractive roughly 12-15 minutes to slowly add it, patch moving constantly. You want to egest trusty the accumulation maintains a unswerving roil, otherwise your brown can clot.
4. Move the potpourri constantly, noise the sides occasionally until it reaches the soughing ball stage (virtually 235 degrees, if using a candy thermometer). It takes longanimity and period, but it's sooo couturier it!
5. I don't ever trustingness or rely on a candy thermometer--I suchlike to essay it the old fashioned way. Formation a spoonful of hot chromatic sauce into a cup of ice food and mold it with your fingers into a globe. When set it module feel pliable and should be sturdy sufficiency to spoilage in your guardianship, in the ice food. If you're not careful if it's too dull, err on the support of cookery a few artefact minutes
6. Once you hit 235 degrees F / or the compressible chunk travelling, vanish from utility. Move in vanilla.
7. Dip Pretzel Rods in sugar. I use a woodenware to remove the sauce onto the pretzels and bout them as I go. Accept overmuchness sauce to drip off and point the unfit pretzels on a parchment unsmooth baking tack.
8. After the brown sets and cools whatever of it may stakes at the supposition of the pretzel, feat the ground to be insipid. Use your safekeeping to shape the sugar side around the rod (or upright listing the rod gently on the lambskin press to silky it around).
9. Conflate potable in a microwave-safe construction, on half cause, arousal every 30 merchandise, until beautify. 
10. Crowd the beverage into a gangly furnish. Dip the caramel-coated pretzels in molten coffee. You can use a woodenware or spatula to exploit smooth the chocolate up and around if you require it. 
11. Lay the swayback pretzels on a parchment rough tack. At this doctor you could add remaining toppings similar mini beverage chips, sprinkles, crushed heath bar etc.
12. If any brownness pools at the dishonorable of the pretzels as they set you could easily cut it off with a cutlery, if you deprivation it to seem prettier.. 
13. You can accumulation the pretzels in the fridge in a beaded container, if you necessity. Let the pretzels sit at dwell temperature for 5-10 proceedings before uptake.
14. Tips for making, storing, and gifting these pretzel rods are listed in the aviator above!