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Satisfy your sweet tooth with this 5-ingredient Chocolate Toffee Pretzel Bark! It’s a super easy mashup of chocolatey goodness, buttery toffee, and the awesome crunch of salty pretzels.
I love a good candy bark, and this one is the easiest yet! It comes together in about ten minutes and the ingredients are all items you most likely have in your pantry already.
A lady in our church used to bring it to potlucks and ladies’ events all the time. She shared the recipe in a church cookbook, but I’ve also seen it on Mel’s Kitchen Cafe.
Ingredients needed for Pretzel Bark:
- mini pretzels-any shape will work but I prefer the traditional pretzel shape for collecting all the toffee and chocolate
- butter
- brown sugar
- chocolate chips-use semi-sweet or dark chocolate because the toffee makes this very sweet already
- sea salt
Steps
Start by breaking apart the pretzels-this is a great way to use up the bottom of a bag or box that’s full of broken pieces! You don’t want the pretzels to be crushed or powdered-just in pieces.
Place those pieces on a parchment lined baking sheet and spread them out into one layer.
Next, cook the butter and brown sugar over medium heat in a saucepan. Once it starts to bubble, leave it alone for 3 minutes. It’s very hard to do, but don’t touch or stir it!
After it’s finished bubbling, immediately pour the sugar mixture all over the pretzels. It won’t completely cover every bit of pretzel, but that’s OK.
Place the baking sheet in the oven for 5 minutes.
After baking, remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack. Immediately sprinkle the chocolate chips over the warm pretzel mixture. Let it sit for 2-3 minutes to soften the chocolate and then spread to cover. Sprinkle with sea salt.
Allow the whole pan to cool to room temperature and then place in the refrigerator or freezer to harden completely. Break or cut into pieces and serve.
Pretzel Bark
Ingredients
- 8 ounces mini pretzels broken but not crushed (about half a bag)
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 2 cups semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips 1 bag
- sea salt optional
Instructions
- 8 ounces mini pretzelsPreheat oven to 375° and line baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the broken pretzel pieces in a single layer on the bottom of the pan.
- 1 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugarIn a saucepan over medium heat, combine the butter and brown sugar. When it starts to gently bubble, let it cook for 3 minutes without stirring. Immediately pour the hot caramel mixture over the pretzels to mostly cover the pretzel pieces.
- 2 cups semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips, sea saltBake for 5 minutes and then remove from oven and place on a cooling rack. Immediately sprinkle the chocolate chips over the toffee and pretzels. Let sit for 2-3 minutes until they are soft enough to spread with a spatula. Sprinkle with sea salt if desired.
- Let the whole pan cool to room temperature and place in the refrigerator or freezer to harden the chocolate completely. Break apart into pieces (or slice into squares) and serve.
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Originally posted 2013, updated photos 2024
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Theresa (Capri + 3) says
This looks so good! I love that it is also easy. We will have to try out the recipe. Thank you!
Dana says
Thanks for the yummy tin of this wickedly delicious stuff your darling son gave me as a Christmas gift. My family and I already devoured it. I will make more this weekend. I have an almost exact recipe using saltine crackers I’ve been making for decades, but using the pretzels takes it up to a new level of deliciousness. Thanks again!
Nicole Burkholder says
I’ve seen those recipes for toffee saltines, but I’ve never tried them. I’m so glad you liked the pretzel version! 🙂 It wasn’t quite”right” because the toffee got stretchy and soft at room temperature instead of hard, but it still tasted good. 🙂 Have a wonderful Christmas break and thanks for stopping by the blog 🙂
AnnMarie says
Oh, I love an easy snack recipe! This looks incredible! Pinned! Visiting from The Weekend re-Treat.
Nicole Burkholder says
Me too! Thanks for visiting!
Marlys @ This and That says
Oh YUM! All my favorite things… sweet and salty too… pinning
Nicole Burkholder says
That whole “sweet and salty” thing is what keeps you reaching for more until you hate yourself. 🙂
Jenn @ We Do Fun Here says
YUMMY!! I love a good candy bark too! Pinned for later 🙂
~ Jenn
Nicole Burkholder says
Bark is always a crowd pleaser (which amazes me, because it is just about the easiest form of “treat” you can make!) Good teacher gift, too!
Pinkoddy says
Oh how delightfully wicked – ideal for a Halloween party I think.
Yum yum such a great idea.
Nicole Burkholder says
Thanks! I’m trying to refrain from making a second batch with the leftover pretzels in my pantry 🙂
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes} says
Yummy! I am having a sweet tooth today and this sure does look yummy! Pinned 🙂
Shauna
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