Description
Take 5 Candy Bar Bites combine layers of chocolate, caramel, peanuts, peanut butter, and pretzels in mouth-watering two-bite candies.
Ingredients
- 24 square shaped pretzels
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup roasted salted peanuts, halved or lightly chopped
- 24 caramel squares
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Flaky sea salt, for garnishing, if desired
Instructions
- Arrange the pretzels on a small parchment-lined sheet pan that will fit in your freezer.
- Spread each pretzel with about 3/4 teaspoon of the peanut butter.
- Press 5-6 peanut halves into the peanut butter on each pretzel.
- Preheat the oven to 250°F. Unwrap and place the caramels a few inches apart on another parchment-lined baking sheet. Place the baking sheet on the middle rack of the preheated oven for 5 minutes to soften the caramels. They should not melt. They should just soften so that you can reshape them.
- Remove the caramels from the oven and while they’re still warm slightly flatten each caramel into a square shape that will fit the size of the pretzel. Place the flattened caramel over the chopped peanuts on each pretzel.
- Place the sheet pan of pretzel bites in the freezer for 15 minutes to flash freeze them.
- When you’re ready to coat the pretzels in chocolate, place 1 cup of the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave in 30 seconds intervals until melted and smooth, stirring between each interval.
- Remove half of the flash frozen pretzel bites from the freezer. Using a fork, dip and coat each bite completely in the melted chocolate, letting any excess chocolate drip back into the bowl before transferring the coated bite to a parchment-lined sheet pan. Sprinkle each bite with a little flaky sea salt, if desired.
- Repeat with the remaining 1 cup of chocolate chips and remaining bites that are in the freezer.
- Let the bites set at room temperature until the chocolate is completely set. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.