Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites

With just 7 ingredients, these EASY Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites are the perfect combination of salty and sweet. Great for snacking!

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: peanut butter pretzel bites, peanut butter pretzels

Prep Time: 20

Chilling Time: 1 30

Total Time: 1 50

Servings:

Calories: 54kcal

Ingredients

76 mini pretzel twists
½ cup creamy unsweetened peanut butter
¼ cup dark brown sugar lightly packed
¾ cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 oz. bittersweet chocolate chopped
1 tablespoon salted butter

Instructions

Line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
Line up all the mini pretzel twists on the baking sheet. Set aside.
Measure the peanut butter, dark brown sugar, powdered sugar and vanilla into a large bowl. Use a hand mixer to beat the ingredients together until combined. It will be crumbly, and that’s OK. Pinch a bit of it and see if it forms a ball, as well as sticks to itself, without sticking to your hands. If it does, you’re good to go. If it’s too crumbly, add 1-2 tablespoons of peanut butter and mix again until the desired consistency is reached.
Use a teaspoon to measure out the peanut butter mixture into your hand. Gently form into a ball.
Place the peanut butter ball onto one of the pretzels, and press another pretzel on top to form the sandwich.
Repeat until all the bites have been made, and then refrigerate for 1 hour.
While the pretzel bites chill, melt the chocolate with the butter in the microwave in 30-second bursts until melted. (You could also do this in a double boiler.)
Dip the chilled bites into the chocolate, and place back onto the baking sheet.
Chill for another 30 minutes, or until the chocolate is set.
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Notes

These Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites will keep in the fridge for up to two weeks.

Variations and ideas to change these up:

Use different chocolate. If you don’t like bittersweet chocolate, feel free to use another type of chocolate instead.
Dress them up. Once the Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites are dipped in the chocolate, you can add a sprinkle of sea salt, colorful sprinkles or even chopped peanuts to add texture and color.
Get fancy with it! For these photos, I chose to dip the pretzel bites, but you could easily drizzle the chocolate over the pretzels for a different (and fancier!) look. You could also dip the bites, then drizzle with a different type of chocolate, like white chocolate.

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