Ghost Pretzels + Video
Ghost Pretzels – White chocolate dipped pretzels are made into ghosts with candy eyes and a little bit of imagination.
I love how my kids are giddy about the simplest things. I do a little something fun, and they think I’m the coolest mom EVER. These ghost pretzels were a huge hit with my kids and they are so flipping easy to make!
Side Note: If you love Halloween, get excited, because I am in a major Halloween mood! I’ve made four easy, fun halloween treats for you to whip up. These ghost pretzels are number one! The other three recipes will be up soon, so stay tuned!
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There are a few different ways you can coat these adorable ghost pretzels. You can do white chocolate (which is what I did), white candy melts, or white almond bark. I prefer white chocolate because it tastes the best. I always have a stash of my favorite Guittard chips on hand, so I just whipped out a bag of the vanilla milk chips and got to making these cute ghost pretzels.
The candy eyes are like $2.50 a bag at Walmart or you can order them on Amazon. I also use a little bit of coconut oil to thin my chocolate for a better dipping consistency. Make sure to tap off any excess chocolate, at least in the bottom hole, so it looks like the ghost’s mouth is open — screaming!
My daughter lit up when I showed her these ghost pretzels! They are as fun to eat as they are to look at, and you get major bonus mom points for making these things! They are the perfect, easy treat for a Halloween party!
Ghost Pretzels
Ingredients
- 30 mini pretzels, (like Shultz or Snyder's)
- 6 oz (170 g) Guittard Vanilla Milk Chips, (equal to 1 cup; half of a 12oz bag)
- ½ tsp coconut oil or shortening, for thinning the chocolate
- 0.88 oz (25 g) pkg Wilton Candy Eyeballs
Equipment
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with wax paper, parchment paper, or a silicone baking mat. Set aside.
- Melt the white chocolate and coconut oil (or shortening) in a glass bowl in the microwave, for short 10-20 second bursts, until melted.
- Immediately dip pretzels, one at a time, in the bowl, using a fork to turn the pretzel over. Shake off excess chocolate from the pretzel with the fork. Be sure to shake the chocolate out of the bottom hole, so it looks like an open mouth — screaming. Place chocolate dipped pretzels on the prepared baking sheet.
- Immediately press two eyeballs into the top two holes for eyes — add a little extra chocolate if needed.
- Repeat with remaining pretzels. Work quickly. Heating the chocolate again only once, if needed.
- Allow pretzels to rest and harden. Place in freezer for 10 minutes to speed up the process. Peel pretzels off the baking sheet and enjoy!
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How to store them if I am making them for a baby shower in 2 days? Better to store in fridge for freshness or leave out? Also have the white almond bark … is that ok?
I guess it depends on how warm your house is. You can always leave them in the fridge to keep them firm just to be safe. Almond bark should be fine.
Great recipes thank you!
What is the name of the background music for the video ghost pretzels?
It’s called “Spooky Uke” and I bought it on audiojungle.net
This recipe turned out to be very time consuming for me. I used good white chocolate & added the coconut oil but the mixture was not thick enough and the pretzel showed through. I refrigerated them & redipped the faces in the chocolate for better coverage. I feel the coconut oil is not needed. Anywhere that I handled the edge of the pretzel, the coating would come off so I used a wooden city chicken stick and toothpicks for transfer to the wax paper. Also the eyes tended to fall into the pretzel “eye sockets” so I set the top of the eye on the brow edge. Use long-nosed tweezers for easier eye placement. Lastly, white chocolate has a yellowish creamy color so maybe the whiter vanilla almond bark may have a more realistic white ghost look.
Can you share which chocolate you used? If you ended up using something like white melting wafers, those don’t need additional coconut oil. I’m sorry you had a rough time with these. I have the ingredients I used pictured. Guittard is my go-to chocolate for everything.
So cute! Making these on Monday with my 3-year old baker-in-training granddaughter. One thing – I saw the candy eyeballs at Joann yesterday (for twice as much as Walmart), and they come in 3 sizes. It looks like you are using the smallest size, so that’s what I got. They fit just right.
These are so adorable 🙂 I love Halloween, it is one of our favorite holidays in the house here. Definitely have to try this! I noticed a comment below mentioned not finding the small pretzels but quite often store brands carry them too. I think Walmart brand still has them.
Good to know for next time, thanks! The smallest I could find was Brad’s Organic pretzels.
I had a hard time with these last night. I used a bag of Wilton Candy Melts from Michael’s and it was so thick, it was very difficult to shake any off the pretzels. I also went to about 8 different stores looking for small pretzels and couldn’t find a single brand as small as the ones used in the video / tutorial above. If you could advise on brand it would be helpful! Lastly, I added the coconut oil to try to help liquify the chocolate more, and learned when I brought them into school today that it might be a problem for those with nut allergies since the FDA classifies coconut as a tree nut. A rocky first outing making these but I’m happy to give them another try sometime. That, or I’ll just stick candy eyes to Trader Joe’s yogurt covered pretzels!
Hi Sarah, I’m so sorry you experienced problems. I noted in step 2 that you can use coconut oil or shortening to thin the chocolate. I’m sorry you didn’t know about coconut being considered a tree nut when making these for school treats. Our schools don’t allow homemade goodies, so I didn’t think to make a note of that in my recipe card. The brand of pretzels I used is Shultz (pictured in post), but Snyder’s also carries mini pretzels. You could also try regular pretzels and use bigger eye balls. Wilton for sure has at least two sizes to choose from. I highly recommend the Guittard (or Ghirardelli) white chocolate chips for dipping next time. Of course you could melt some chocolate and attach the eyeballs to the yogurt pretzels like you thought about.
I made these for this year’s Halloween party and they were a hit! Ty for the recipe!
That’s great news! Thanks for your comment Doree!
Omg…so darn clever and cute. Was looking for an idea to top my cupcakes for our church bake sale…found it…yeah!
Oh! That’s a great idea for these! Good luck with the bake sale!
Sorry my link didn’t work – michellebfizzard.com
Looks great! Thanks!