These are snowflake-shaped pretzels. I paid $3 for the 10-oz bag. Why would I be so excited about these?
Well, every Christmas I bake a bunch of treats to give to my son and daughter-in-law, so they can enjoy the holiday treat foods that the rest of us enjoy.
A popular (with them) sweet snack that I make is chocolate covered pretzels. My son loves these. I think it's the sweet combined with salt that is so appealing.
One year I coated the pretzels with white chocolate and crushed candy cane bits.
Another year I coated the pretzels in dark chocolate and drizzled white chocolate over the tops and sprinkled with candy cane bits.
And yet another year I coated the pretzels in white chocolate then sprinkled them with red and green cake/cookie decors.
I try to do something different with the pretzels each year, you know, just to mix things up. Anyways, this year I have snowflake-shaped pretzels to work with. I'm so excited about these. I hope they turn out really cute.
While I would never spend this much money on chocolate covered pretzels, here's what Hickory Farms sells their white chocolate covered snowflake pretzels for -- $21.99 for a 10-oz box.
They're cute, but not $22 cute. Mine will be just as cute, fresher tasting, and much less expensive to make. Plus, chocolate-covered pretzels are about the easiest holiday confection to make that I know of. Easy is a top priority for me this year.
Just wanted to share what I found. By the way, I didn't find them in-store, but added them to an order to be shipped. They were well-padded in the box with other items and seem to have about the same broken to whole ratio as regular pretzels bought in a store.
