Today was supposed to be an Everyday Food Challenge post. The one about the potato and ham bake. But you know, sometimes cravings just get in the way.
There are few sweet treats that I love more than chocolate covered pretzels and good old-fashioned Rice Crispy Treats. How’s about if I combined them into one square of chocolaty-crunchy goodness. I kind of think that I did just that on Monday night. Yes…on a Monday night. A night that is normally filled with the dread of just completing the first of many successive days at work. A night that’s all about “couch time” and longingly looking back at the just finished weekend. But this Monday I set out to create a treat worthy of sharing with you, my amazingly loyal readers. I give to you the Dark Chocolate and Pretzel Crispy Treat, a made by mike original.
Dark Chocolate and Pretzel Crispy Treats
Makes 16 delightful squares of goodness.
Ingredients
- non-stick cooking spray
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 bag mini marshmallows (10.5 ounces)
- 1/4 cup Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa
- 4 cups crispy rice cereal
- 2 cups of broken thin pretzel sticks
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted
Directions
- Spray the bottom and sides of an 8-inch square baking pan with the cooking spray. Line the bottom of the pan with two crossed sheets of parchment paper with a 2-inch overhang on each side. I like to use small binder clips to keep the paper in place. Set the pan aside.
- In a large saucepan, combine the butter, marshmallows and dark cocoa. Cook over medium heat until the mixture has combined and melted. Stir in the rice cereal and broken pretzel sticks. Stir until all the rice and pretzels are coated with the chocolate and marshmallow mixture.
- Turn out the mixture into the prepared pan. Using a piece of waxed paper, press the mixture into an even layer.
- Spread melted semisweet chocolate in an even layer on top of the rice and pretzel mixture.
- Let cool until the chocolate hardens then cut into 16 squares.
MADE BY MIKE TREATS 
What a deliciously-evil combination – you’re a very, very
smart man!
Does that make me an Evil Genius? I’ve been practicing my evil laugh.
Evil Genius, YES! Which means you’ll have to grow a handlebar moustache for twisting along with your laugh! BTW, your rice crispies “medium” has got me thinking about other treats I could fold into the mix!
The possibilities are endless. I was thinking there needed to be some sort of caramel in there somewhere. Not sure how to execute that.
Ohhhh, YUMMMM!
Indeed. I can’t wait to try my hand at your chocolate dipped bacon with pecans….
are any of these fantastic looking treats making it to the road trip on Friday?? 🙂
You bet….that is, if there are any left
Yum. Gotta know if the pretzels stayed crunchy?
The pretzels in the one (or two) that I ate last night were very crunchy. I forgot to pack one in my lunch today, so the verdict’s out for today. I’ll let you know tonight.
You can bring me the broken one!
It’s not broken, that’s the one I took a bite out of…and then finished. Had to make sure that the quality control was up to par.
I can’t wait to try these! They look delicious. Thanks for
sharing your nummy idea!!
I made these over the long weekend and they were GREAT! I did add chopped walnuts on the top – was thinking chopped peanuts would be yummy but didn’t have any in house –
thanks mike!
i love your blog! especially the pictures of how to –
You’re the best!
kathy