Bewitched Flower Pretzel Bites

Bring some Halloween magic to your party with Bewitched Flower Pretzel Bites! Sweet, salty, Black, Green & Purple treats that are spooky, fun, & easy to make!

Bewitched Flower Pretzel Bites will be a spooktacular addition to your Halloween festivities, whether it’s a neighborhood block party, a grown-up costume party or a family movie night. These crunchy treats deliver a yummy mix of sweet and salty in an easy-to-eat one-bite party food. Made with Black, Green, and Purple M&M’s, they perfectly capture the playful yet spooky vibe of the season. Not only are they delicious, but a bowl of these fun treats also become a crowd-pleasing edible decoration for your Halloween spread. So easy to make, you definitely are going to want to add them to your “make-ahead” recipe list and get ready to wow your Halloween party guests. We hope you enjoy them as much as our family does!

Ingredients You Will Need

Preparing the M&M’s

Some years the special Halloween themed bag of M&M’s features these spooky colors of M&M’s, when they do we always buy a couple of extra bags because there are so many fun desserts you can make with them. If this is a year where the Halloween M&M bag features Orange and Black, here is where we find these Witchy colors: First, we trade the black for brown and pull the Green and Brown M&M’s from a regular bag of M&Ms and then we buy a bag of Purple M&M’s from the M&M website or Amazon. You can use the purple M&M’s for so many occasions throughout the year.

How to Make the Flower Pretzel Bites

Steps 1-2: For the pretzels, we like to use the square “snaps” or the round “waffle” pretzels because we think they hold the melted chocolate with less dripping but you could make Mini Pretzels work too if that is all you can find at the grocery store.  First, place 7-8 Pretzel Snaps on a paper plate. Cover the pretzels with a Dark Chocolate Melting Wafer. Place the paper plate in the microwave and heat for approximately 45-50 seconds. The exact timing will take a bit of trial and error.  You want the candy melts to be melted enough to press the M&M’s into, but not so melted that the candy melt loses its’ shape.  The exact time in the microwave will depend on how many pretzel/candy you do at one time, how powerful your microwave is, the type of pretzels you are using, etc.  For us, 7-8 pretzels snaps take 50 seconds to melt to the right consistency.

Steps 3-10: Start by pressing an M&M down in the center of the melted candy melt.  Now create the flower petals with contrasting colored M&M’s – we used six M&M’s for the petals.  

We created coordinated colored versions of the Bewitched Flower Pretzel Bites – Green with a Black center, and Black with a Purple Center, and Purple with a Green Center. Let them cool for a couple of hours so that the Dark Chocolate fully sets up and the M&M’s are firmly attached to the pretzels.

Storage Instructions

You can store Pretzel Bites in an air-tight container for a very long time so this is a great make-ahead party food.  Your goal is simply to keep the Pretzels from getting stale, the chocolate and M&M’s will be fine for a long time.  We have kept them in a container in the pantry for weeks and they still taste great.  You can freeze them but we don’t recommend it. Sometimes, during the defrosting process, the M&M’s lose their shiny coat.

Other Halloween Desserts You Will Love

• Bewitched Rice Krispie Treat Wands
• Bewitched Marble Cupcakes
• Bewitched Marble Cake
• Bewitched Halloween Popcorn
• Bewitched Halloween Cupcakes