Salted Caramel Pretzel Bark

  4.5 – 37 reviews  

Excellent party food!

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Additional Time: 2 hrs
Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins
Servings: 10
Yield: 10 servings

Ingredients

  1. 8 ounces mini pretzels
  2. 1 cup butter
  3. 1 cup light brown sugar
  4. 2 cups milk chocolate chips
  5. sea salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line an 11×17-inch baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment paper.
  2. Spread pretzels onto the prepared baking sheet.
  3. Combine butter and brown sugar in a saucepan over medium-low heat; cook and stir until sugar is dissolved and mixture is thickened, 5 to 8 minutes. Pour mixture over pretzels.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven for 5 minutes. Sprinkle chocolate chips over pretzel mixture. Bake for 1 minute more. Stir mixture to evenly spread chocolate over pretzels. Lightly sprinkle salt over pretzels. Cool until set, 2 to 3 hours. Break into pieces.
  5. Semisweet chocolate chips can be used in place of milk chocolate chips if desired.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 465 kcal
Carbohydrate 53 g
Cholesterol 49 mg
Dietary Fiber 3 g
Protein 4 g
Saturated Fat 18 g
Sodium 560 mg
Sugars 32 g
Fat 29 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Amanda Craig
I used chocolate bark and chocolate chips. I melted the chocolate bark in the microwave and poured it over the baked caramel pretzels and added chocolate chips before final heating. After five minutes in the oven I added candy sprinkles.
Kelly Allen
So easy, and soooo good. Except for using thin pretzel sticks, I followed the recipe exactly. Will be making again (and again, and again…..)
Elizabeth Johnson
This is a great recipe. Very quick and easy to make and always a crowd pleaser for office morning teas or BBQs. Just make sure to boil the caramel on the stove top for long enough. Anyone complaining about the caramel being too soft didn’t cook it long enough to melt the sugar crystals.
Jacob Carroll
i love this recipe though i always melt my chocolate and let the carmel cool and then pour the chocolate over it. this is a great recipe
Alex Tucker
Delicious and perfect as it! Very simple. A great holiday treat, gift, or party favor!
Anna Castro
I used white chocolate, peanuts and on top of the melted chocolate I sprinkled crushed candy canes. ( and a few dried cranberries and kosher salt.) Boiled sugar and butter on med… while stirring for 8 minutes to get the crunchy effect of toffee. Seems like it’s pretty good but not completely cold yet!
Patricia Austin
Soggy mess. Toffee is really misleading. This is a crumbly mess that is impossible to package in any decent presentation. Tried it twice. Waste of expensive ingredients.
Connie Mitchell
I make this in variations every year. This year I sprinkled the toffee layer with Skor bits before I drizzled it with chocolate. I prefer a chocolate drizzle to putting the chips over top and melting them. I have also added nuts and coconut to the toffee layer in the past. Delicious.
Carrie Nolan
This has become a Christmas favorite! The salty sweetness is heavenly!
Ronald Shelton
This is one of those recipes that I wish I never learned. It is so delicious it’s impossible not to eat too much of it.
Kimberly Gomez
OMG! This was LOVE at first bite! I cooked the caramel the full 8 minutes stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Poured over the pretzels thr best I could and like others ssid, it will spread on its own. Baked 5 minutes, sprinkled chocolate chips, popped back in the oven for one minute then lightly spread the melted chips. I used my sea salt grinder snd lightly salted the muxture. I put the still hot cookie sheet on a towel in the fridge for an hour but the chocolate was still soft so I put it in the freezer for an hour. Absolutely delucious. Thank you for the grest recipe. Note: Use non-stick aluminum foil for essy removal.
Martha Pittman
Very easy and very tasty. I used large pretzels and crushed them. I actually prefer this to get a more consistent bottom layer.
Jill Chan
I rated it a 3 because the end result tasted good but the process was horrible. First of all never again foil! I baked it 7 minutes thinking 8 might be too brittle but from other reviews 5 minutes was not enough. Mine was still very much a Carmel. I used milk chocolate chips and it would melt almost as soon as I touched it. It made cutting them up a nightmare. Between the foil sticking and the chocolate melting I was a mess. But it tasted so good that I am not giving up on it and may try wax paper over foil. I also may try the bark chocolate squares in hopes that this would not melt so quickly. I made sure I also had them in the fridge right before company would arrive. I am submitting the picture of how soft they were while trying to peel them off of the foil. I
Timothy Dunn
I had such high hopes for this based upon the reviews. I made it, no changes, and it was “eh.” I mean, it wasn’t bad per se but it just wasn’t great — it was SO sweet, it wasn’t enjoyable. It was easy enough and I guess if you like REALLY sweet things, this is right up your alley.
Christine Sullivan
Very, very easy and delicious. I used non- stick aluminum foil to line the tray, and put it in the freezer for 15 minutes: no sticky mess.
Nicole Barnes
Simply YUMMY!!!
Paul Bailey
We’ve made this a couple years in a row, and have learned a few things along the way. If you want really crunchy caramel/toffee, then let the butter sugar mixture cook closer to 8 min. If you want a more crumbly texture cook it closer to 5 min. We like it both ways. Apparently, our coworkers wait all year for this stuff. They’ve dubbed it “Christmas Crack”
Courtney Johnson
Tastes good, but didn’t harden completely (maybe due to humidity where I live?) so it’s a mess to eat, and I can’t really package it up to give away. We’ll just have to eat it at home!:^)
Julie Anderson DDS
Followed the recipe exactly and the candy turned out perfectly. I used flavored salt (almond cardamom and a pink peppercorn and chile salt). Yum! Easy and inexpensive Christmas gift for neighbors and coworkers. Making a third batch tomorrow.
Samuel Kent
Warning! HIGHLY addictive!
Megan Barrett
I made this recipe last night. I had regular sized pretzels, so I crumbled them up enough to cover the cookie sheet, without crushing them to crumbs. I cooked the caramel for 3 minutes (from a different recipe). The caramel is still a little gooey, so I will definitely cook longer next time. I tried to spread the caramel before baking, but after taking them out of the oven, realized that was a waste because it bubbles up and spreads on its own. I used semi-sweet chocolate and spread with silicone spatula after removing from oven after 1 minute. Then, I forgot the sea salt but didn’t really miss it. The taste is amazing. Three of my favorites in one treat!!!

 

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