Holiday Poinsettia Pretzel Bites
Holiday Poinsettia Pretzel Bites are a great Christmas Treat – sweet, salty, crunchy, and delicious. Add this fun dessert to your holiday baking list.
Holiday Poinsettia Pretzel Bites are one of our favorite holiday party foods, perfect for a Christmas party, a cozy family movie night, or as a sweet Holiday gift for friends and neighbors. These crunchy, chocolatey bites are as delicious as they are festive, combining sweet and salty flavors in a mess-free, one-bite, easy-to-eat snack. Topped with red and white M&M’s arranged to resemble beautiful Poinsettia flowers, they bring a touch of holiday cheer to any dessert table. Not only are they eye-catching decorations, but they’re also incredibly simple to make and you’ll only need three ingredients to make them. Add them to your holiday baking list for a stress-free, show-stopping treat. Whether you’re planning a holiday gathering or just want a fun, edible craft for the holidays, these Pretzel Bites might just become your new Christmas tradition!
Ingredients You Will Need
Preparing the M&M’s
For the Holiday Poinsettia Pretzel Bites we used Red and White M&M’s. You can find the Red M&M’s in a Holiday blend bag or a Regular bag of M&M’s. You can also find a bag of white M&M’s at candy stores and online on Amazon and the M&M Official Website.
How to Make the Flower Pretzel Bites
Step 1: First, place 7-8 Pretzel Snaps on a paper plate. 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.
Step 2: Cover the pretzels with a Wilton Candy Melt. 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 pretzels/candies you do at one time, how powerful your microwave is, the type of pretzels you use, etc. For us, 7-8 pretzels snaps take 50 seconds to melt to the right consistency.
Steps 3-10: The Poinsettia Flower Pretzel Bites are very easy to assemble. 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. And remember to place the “M” side down!
We created coordinated colored versions of the Holiday Poinsettia Pretzel Bites – Red with a White center, and White with a Red Center.
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.
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Holiday Poinsettia Pretzel Bites
Holiday Poinsettia Pretzel Bites are a great Christmas Treat - sweet, salty, crunchy and delicious. Add this fun dessert to your holiday baking list.
Ingredients
- 24 Pretzel Snaps
- 1 bag Wilton Bright White Candy Melts
- M&M's - Red, White
Instructions
- Arrange 8 to 9 Pretzel Snaps on a paper plate.
- Place a candy melt in the center of each pretzel.
- Place the plate of pretzels in the microwave and heat them until the candy melts are at the beginning stage of being melted. They should be soft to the touch and melted enough to press a M&M down into it but not so melty that the candy is running off the pretzel. (Approximately 50 seconds.)
- Using Red and White colored M&M's, place a single M&M in the center of the melted candy melt for the flower center.
- Now press in the flower petals with contrasting colored M&M's - we used six M&M's for the petals.
- Let the Flower Pretzel Bites fully set up.
- Store in an air-tight container.
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Can I freeze these beforehand? Will they still be good once I take them out for Christmas?
Hi Mel, freezing doesn’t work well with this recipe. Once you freeze M&Ms, they become faded and cloudy. I will say we have made these pretzel bites a couple weeks before serving them, and kept them in an airtight container in the pantry. They were still great.