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Simple, quick, and delicious pretzel toffee recipe. This treat is perfect to enjoy and to gift during the holiday season. Just a few ingredients and you’re set!
If you love regular toffee, you’ll love this pretzel version. And if you love candy, you’ll also love our Christmas crack or our Homemade Turtle Candy.
Pretzel + Toffee is the Best Combo
We love to make treats, and especially candy around the holidays.
One new treat we recently tried was Pretzel Toffee. We made it a few weeks ago and we did a white chocolate and a regular chocolate version. Both were hits with the whole family.
Not only is this great to serve at parties, or to make “just because” but we love to gift it to others too. It can easily be packaged in containers and wrapped with a pretty bow for friends, neighbors, teachers and more. And to be honest – it’s always a hit!
How to make Pretzel Toffee
This recipe is easier to make than you think!
Preheat oven to 350. Add parchment paper to a cookie sheet. Spread pretzels in a single layer over the parchment paper and set aside.
Melt butter and brown sugar in a pot. Cook on medium heat for 7-8 minutes or until a tan-ish brown color.
Pour toffee mixture over pretzels making sure to cover all the pretzels. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Take out and top with 2 cups of your favorite chocolate chips (we did half and half and used 1 cup white chocolate chips and 1 cup milk chocolate chips). Let chips melt for a few minutes and spread with spatula to cover toffee layer. Sprinkle with any desired toppings.
Let cool at room temp or by refrigerating until hardened. Break into pieces and store in air tight container in the fridge
Let’s talk pretzels…
- We used pretzel twists, but you could easily use the sticks
- You do not need to break them before putting them on the sheet, but you can if you want to.
- You can add more pretzels, or less, depending on your preference
What to sprinkle of top? We sprinkled toffee bits on top, but you could use your favorite toppings such as:
- Sprinkles
- Chopped nuts
- Crushed graham crackers
- Sea salt
- Toasted coconut
How to store: When storing use an airtight container and layer the toffee with wax or parchment paper in between. Store in the fridge for 1-2 weeks.
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Pretzel Toffee Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 cup chocolate chips (white, milk, or dark chocolate)
- 2 cups pretzels
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Add parchment paper to a cookie sheet. Spread pretzels in a single layer over the parchment paper and set aside.
- Melt butter and brown sugar in a pot. Cook on medium heat for 7-8 minutes or until a tan-ish brown color.
- Pour toffee mixture over pretzels making sure to cover all the pretzels. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Take out and top with 2 cups of your favorite chocolate chips (we did half and half and used 1 cup white chocolate chips and 1 cup milk chocolate chips). Let chips melt for a few minutes and spread with spatula to cover toffee layer. Sprinkle with any desired toppings.
- Let cool at room temp or by refrigerating until hardened. Break into pieces and store in air tight container in the fridge.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
You’re instructions say- melt the Butter THEN add the sugar. Comment # 20 says add them both at the same time?? When you say, cook for 7 or 8 minutes, are you talking a simmer , a boil? I’d love to try this but don’t want to waste the money on ingredients and just need to make sure I have the directions correct. Thank you!
You melt the butter, then add the sugar and cook for 7-8 min on medium heat. Medium heat won’t be a boil, maybe a simmer. Hope that helps!!
Love your recepi will use it for tea partty. Thank you so much will let you know how it turn out.
This is a great recipe for a tea party!! I’d love to hear how it turns out!
We can never have too much toffee! This looks so tasty!
I tried this recipe … are you sure you add a whole cup of butter? I had to drain off the excess butter when I poured it on the pretzels and I cooked it for the 8 minutes. It still turned out really yummy. But there was alot of butter still left in the saucepan.
It is cold for us in Utah Lily
hello. Just made this and also had a problem with my toffee. It never came together and separated something awful. I poured a good 1/8 of cup of butter to the sink and still salvaged the rest to make the dish. But are you sure these measurements are correct? Do I need to add the sugar before the butter gets too hot, maybe? Or keep the temperature a little lower versus a little too high?? Not sure,what happened!?
Gina
Don’t melt the butter first, put the sugar and cold butter together in the pot and then warm it.
Hi! I’m so excited to try this version! I make mine with a cup of butter, a cup of brown sugar, chocolate chips and graham crackers (and chopped pecans on top of you so choose). I only cook my butter and brown sugar for exactly 3 minutes and then in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes, then add the chocolate and spread when they start to melt. I’m excited to see the difference in the toffee because of the different cook times and different sugars. Thanks!
Would love to know how it goes and what the difference is between yours and this recipe. Hope you like it! 🙂
Hi. I noticed your picture appears yo have chopped nuts or toffee bits on the pretzel toffee. Can you tell me which one it is? Thanks.
It’s toffee bits sprinkled on top. 🙂
I tried to make this recipe this afternoon, as I always love anything with toffee; however, the butter and sugar would not combine how I believe it should have. Should the “sugar” have been “brown sugar” instead?
Hmmm… not sure what happened but it’s regular sugar and not brown sugar. Was it on medium heat and how long did you cook it for?
I had the same problem – I remade it and put the butter and sugar together in the pot to begin with, without melting the butter first. Something to do with the temperature screwed up the toffee when I melted the butter first.