Every party is only half as nice without snacks. Pretzel sticks are considered a classic pastry that tastes wonderful with cocktails as well as a beer. When pretzel sticks are decorated with chocolate icing, they become the highlight of the Christmas buffet. Salty and sweet at the same time, they can be easily decorated thematically. We'll show you numerous ideas on how to use the sticks to conjure up delicious sweets for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. Surprise family and friends with these colorful and delicious party snacks!
Surprise the children with delicious candy for Halloween. The first recipe is extremely simple and is guaranteed to please the children. First you need to bake the pretzel sticks. You need the following ingredients:
- 500g plain flour
- 1 Pkt. Hefe
- 1 tbsp salt
- Sea salt for sprinkling
- 1 egg yolk (medium size)
- Sunflower oil for brushing
- Backpinsel
- Tigerroller
- baking tray
- baking paper
Mix the flour, yeast and salt together, add 350 ml of warm water and 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil, knead all the ingredients into a dough and let it rise for half an hour. Then divide the dough into 20 equal pieces and roll each piece thinly. Then roll the pieces with your fingers and let them rise for half an hour. Set the oven to 180 degrees with a fan and line a baking tray with baking paper. Place the sticks on the baking paper, leaving at least 1cm space between them. Brush them first with the egg yolk and then with sunflower oil. Sprinkle them with the sea salt and bake for 25 minutes, or until they turn golden brown.
First let the pretzel sticks cool at room temperature. You can then melt the white chocolate in a water bath. Simply crumble the chocolate or cut it into small pieces with a knife. Bring water to the boil in a pot. Then set the stove to the lowest setting. Place the chocolate in a metal bowl and place on the pot. Make sure that the bowl does not come into contact with the water. Melt the chocolate, stirring constantly. Make sure that the temperature does not exceed 34 degrees. If the chocolate gets too hot, it will lose its shine.
Then dip the pretzel sticks halfwayinto the chocolateand let them drain on baking paper. Paint the faces of the ghosts or mummies with a sugar font (Dr. Oetker has a chocolate-flavored sugar font, for example).
Decorate pretzel sticks with sugar icing or fondant: make your own witch fingers
Optionally you can also use the pretzel sticksspread with sugar glaze. To make the icing, first warm water, dissolve green food coloring in it and then add sifted powdered sugar while stirring constantly. You can also use fondant or modeling chocolate for the “witch fingers”. They are easy to work with and do not become sticky. They also come in different colors so you don't have to dye them. You can simply roll out the modeling chocolate, then wrap it around the bars and use it to form a finger. Cut the ends diagonally or cut the almonds in half and press them onto the modeling chocolate.
And this is how the witch fingers become monsters: Sprinkle the pretzel sticks with sugar sprinkles and decorate them with sugar eyes.
Of course, you can also decorate the pretzel sticks with green sugar sprinkles, black sugar spiders and glitter beads.
Make your own birthday with a unicorn theme
Are you planning a children's birthday and want to surprise the little princess? These unicorn pretzel sticks in rainbow colors are guaranteed to conjure up somethingfairytale atmosphere. Chocolate the pretzel sticks and sprinkle them with confetti and glitter beads. Then decorate them with sugar decorations such as stars and hearts. Choose pastel colors like lavender, sky blue, yellow and pink. You can add accents with pink. The white chocolate forms the perfect background for the creative decoration.
The effective rainbow pretzel sticks are made much quicker and easier. Dip each pretzel stick 2/3 in icing and then decorate the pastry with icing in pink, sky blue and yellow
Pretzel sticks with chocolate icing and coconut flakes
These cute polar bears are ready very quickly and can be made in no time even by beginners. Simply cover the candy canes with white chocolate, sprinkle with coconut flakes and place on baking paper. Meanwhile, make the polar bear heads out of marshmallows and black modeling chocolate and then attach them to the pretzel sticks.
As a gift for a child's birthday party
The pretzel sticks with chocolate icing are not only delicious, they also look very beautiful. For example, if you organize games with the children, you can pack them in bags and give them to the winners.
Ideas for Christmas
Homemade pretzel sticks with chocolate icing are just the thing to make family and friends happy. They prove to be a time-saving and simple alternative to chocolates, especially at Christmas. Richly covered in white chocolate and decorated with sprinkles in green and red, they make the perfect souvenir. Our tip: Pack them nicely in bags and stick lovingly crafted labels on them.
Pure romance: make your own sweets for Valentine's Day
Traditionally, sweets are given as gifts on Valentine's Day. Bring joy to your loved ones with homemade chocolate salt sticks. Decorate the pretzel sticks with sugar beads in red and pink, decorate them with sugar hearts and tie them together with a red bow. You can hide the delicious surprise in a bouquet of flowers.
Fun souvenirs for Easter
You can also cover pretzel sticks with glaze on other occasions. At Easter, for example, they are turned into carrots. Let your imagination run wild and you will surely come up with other ideas.
You can even decorate the birthday cake with pretzel sticks with chocolate icing. First bake five cake layers. Put 2 large eggs, 150 g sugar, 120 g flour, 120 g cornstarch and 1 pack of baking soda in a bowl and mix them into a smooth dough. Pour the dough into a baking pan lined with baking paper and bake it for 30 minutes at 180 degrees. Then bake four more cake layers. Prepare a cream from 200 ml whipped cream and 200 g white baking and cooking chocolate.
If desired, you can color the cream with food coloring. Place the bottom cake layer on a plate, spread the cream on it and place the second layer on top. Continue until you place the fifth layer, the top cake layer, on top. Then spread the cream on the cake and cover it with fondant or icing. Then press the pretzel sticks all around with icing and leave the cake in the fridge for 2-3 hours.
