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What You’ll Love About My Recipe

Sweet and salty, crunchy and chewy, these pretzel bites will have your kids or party guests coming back for more. Make a bunch and freeze them for later, or devour them immediately.

For more tasty dessert recipes involving pretzels and caramel, why not try some Rolo Cookies, or this Strawberry Pretzel Salad? Make some Caramel Syrup to drizzle on your pretzel bites, or Pretzel & Marshmallow Bones for another easy snack.

Karlynn’s Recipe Notes

Skill Level: This is a very easy recipe and it’s a great one to get kids involved with.
Total Time: Making these will take you approximately 15 minutes, depending how many extra steps you want to take at the end.
Variations: There are so many ways you can have fun with this snack! Make little sandwiches by pressing a second pretzel on top of the melted Rolo before it hardens. Dip or drizzle (or both) your pretzel bites in chocolate. Add festive sprinkles or colourful candies.
Tools Needed: For this recipe, all you really need is a large cookie sheet and some parchment paper. If you decide to dip some, or all, of your pretzel bites in chocolate you’ll need a small bowl for melting chocolate and a spoon for stirring.

Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Rolo Pretzel Bites

Have Fun: These pretzel bites are pretty difficult to mess up and they provide endless options for customization. You can make a batch without nuts for your child to take to school as a class snack. You can double up on the pretzels to make tiny sandwiches and load them with melted chocolate and sprinkles, or just keep things simple. Use big pretzels and pile on even more toppings, or stick with miniature ones.

Eat Them Frozen: These pretzel bites freeze amazingly well and you can keep them in a bag or a container for months (if they last that long). The best part is that you don’t even have to defrost them if you don’t want to, because they taste amazing right out of the freezer! If you’d prefer a bit less crunch, you can take out a handful and let them defrost on a plate for a few minutes or hours.

What You’ll Need For Ingredients

Pretzels: Any pretzels you like will work for this recipe. Big, small, square, curled. Just don’t try this with pretzel sticks.

Rolo Candies: Rolos are the classic choice for these pretzel bites, but any chocolate-coated caramel candies should work. Try something like Riesens. You may need to adjust your baking time for harder caramels.

Decorations: Adding a half pecan gives a layer of chewiness that works beautifully with the other textures of this snack. If pecans just don’t work for you, try a variety of holiday-themed small candies. Sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, or whatever else your heart desires.

How To Make Rolo Pretzel Bites

This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.

Preheat oven to 300°F. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Place the pretzels in a single layer on the cookie sheet and place one Rolo in the center of each pretzel.
Bake for 3-4 minutes. Remove from oven and press a pecan half or candy into the top of each melted Rolo. Cool completely.

Storage Instructions

You can keep this in a sealed container at room temperature or in the fridge for several days. They also freeze amazingly well, and you don’t even have to defrost them to eat them later.

More Delicious Christmas Recipes

Looking for more easy dessert recipes or Christmas recipes?

Rum Balls are a classic for every snack table over the holidays.

Try this Buckeyes recipe for some peanut butter deliciousness.

Why not try making some Candied pecans to use for these pretzel bites?

There you go, everyone. A quick snack that can be as simple or as fancy as you’d like it to be. Try out these Rolo pretzel bites and let me know how they turn out.

Happy Baking!

Karlynn