Gluten-Free Chocolate-Dipped Pretzels--Is It Even Possible? YES!

When Christmas rolls around, my GF kid always requests my gluten-free chocolate-dipped pretzels. Did you know there was such a thing as gluten-free pretzels? My favorite brands are Glutino and Ener-G. They're good as plain ol' pretzels, but they're even better dipped in chocolate and rolled in sugar sprinkles. Here's how you do it...

Gluten-Free Chocolate-Dipped Pretzels

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Ingredients:

• 1 pkg. GF pretzels
• 1 monster-big Hershey's milk chocolate bar
• GF candy sprinkles (we use Betty Crocker)

Directions:
1. Clean out a tin can that once held a gluten-free food (like canned corn). Make sure it's perfectly dry inside.
2. Break up the Hershey bar into small chunks and put them in the bottom of the tin can.
3. Put an inch of water in the bottom of a sauce pan. Place this on the stove and bring to a boil.
4. Using protection so your hands don't get burned (I use an OveGlove), hold the tin can of chocolate in one hand and a spoon in the other. Place the base of the tin can in the sauce pan of water and hold it there (it tends to want to float on the water, but you must press it down and keep it in the pan--don't let water seep into the tin can at all) while stirring the chocolate with the other hand.
5. You may need to reduce the heat on your sauce pan, so you don't burn yourself. Keep stirring the chocolate in your tin can until it has all turned fluid.
6. Remove the tin can from the sauce pan and turn off the stove. Be careful not to let any water drip into the tin can of chocolate.
7. Fill a saucer with candy sprinkles and spread a sheet of wax paper out on the kitchen counter. Use a pair of tongs to dip each individual pretzel in the can of chocolate, then in the candy sprinkles. Allow it to cool until hardened on the wax paper.
8. Do this over and over again, with each individual pretzel, until you run out of either chocolate or pretzels. Unused chocolate can be discarded, tin can and all, in the trash.

You know how your GF kid never gets to eat any of those yummy cookies and candies everyone has on display at their house at Christmas time? Well this is a handy substitute. Put half a dozen of these chocolate-covered pretzels in a mini-Rubbermaid food container, in your purse. When you get to that party where your kid can't have any of the food, whip out your home-made pretzels, and voila! Your GF child is the envy of everyone there.