» Chocolate Pretzels

These are more like a lovely shaped cookie than a real pretzel but they do have the shape and a mild taste of chocolate covered pretzels.

They have some larger sugar sprinkled on them that you can normally find in a regular grocers.

Follow our recipe to make these yummy chocolate pretzels!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• pinch of salt
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2/3 cups sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 egg white beaten( to glaze)
• sugar crystals for sprinkling.

Steps To make Chocolate Pretzels:

1. Sift together flour, salt, and cocoa.
2. Grease two baking sheets.
3. Cream butter and add sugar til light and fluffy.
4. Beat in the egg and add the dry ingredients.
5. Gather into a ball and chill for one hour.
6. Roll into twenty eight small balls.
7. Roll each ball into a rope about ten inches long, and loop it around itself pretzel style.
8. Brush with egg white and sprinkle sugar crystals on the top.
9. Bake for 10-12 minutes at 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
10. Let cool on wire rack.