Pretzels are pretty cheap to buy in bulk, which makes them perfect for using in snack recipes for my kids. Of course, they would get bored if I just gave them pretzels, so I like to jazz the pretzels up with the following recipes.
1. Pretzel Snack Mix: Place a cup of pretzels in a mixing bowl. Add ¼ cup of nuts (your choice), 1/8th cup raising, and ½ cup of rice cereal. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a small pot. Mix in 1/8th cup of honey and 1/8th cup of brown sugar. Stir until slightly thick. Poor over the pretzel mix. Stir all of the ingredients together. Wait for the butter/honey/brown sugar mixture to cool before snacking on the pretzel mix.
2. Chocolate Covered Pretzels: Lay waffle style pretzels on a baking sheet. Place a chocolate kiss on top of each pretzel. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees until the chocolate begins to melt a little bit. Remove the pretzels from the oven and top with a mini-marshmallow. Cool in the fridge to stop the chocolate from melting any further. Serve to the kids.
3. Pretzel Raft: Soften some cream cheese ahead of time. Roll out a Fruit Roll-Up that is blue in color and set it on a paper plate. Place a graham cracker on the Fruit Roll-Up and cover it with the cream cheese. Press pretzel rods over the cream cheese to form a raft. Now it looks like the raft is floating in blue water.
Tips: You can cover the chocolate kiss in the second recipe with an M&M, a Skittle, a peanut, or any other food your child likes to eat.