Ghost Pretzels and Driver Days

October 24, 2011 by mydanishkitchen

Ghost Pretzels

Halloween is almost here and I wanted to sneak in one more Halloween themed post. These Ghost Pretzels are fun and very easy to make and they bring a smile to the faces of children and adults alike. I brought these with me to my husbands Blacksmith demo in Driver, Virginia and they were all gobbled down by the hungry Blacksmiths.

Driver Days

Driver Days is a Fall festival in Suffolk, Virginia and it’s an event which I look forward to each year. Driver is a wonderful, quaint little town which manages to put on a great event every October. There’s good music, arts and crafts for sale, fun activities for the kids, a classic car show, cute Blacksmiths which smile at you (ok, so that’s my husband smiling at me) and lots of good food and baked goods.

Back to the Ghost Pretzels. Of couse there is no real recipe for making the Ghost Pretzels so I feel a little silly posting one. But that’s what foodies do, they photograph and post recipes for everything, so here goes.

Ingredients:

1 bag of pretzel rods

14 oz bag of Vanilla flavored Candy Wafers (or white chocolate morsels)

edible ink marker

Directions:

Melt white chocolate over a warm water bath or in the microwave. Pour melted chocolate into a tall thin glass and dip pretzel rods into chocolate. Place pretzel rods onto parchment paper or stand up in a cup to allow white chocolate to dry. Once chocolate has hardened draw faces using an edible ink marker (which can be found at local craft and baking stores as well as online).

Source: Savory Sweet Life, originally from PBS Parents

Posted in Autumn, Chocolate, Quick and Easy | Tagged autumn, blacksmith, chocolate, Driver, fall, ghost, halloween, pretzel, Virginia | 10 Comments

10 Responses

on November 1, 2011 at 16:14 Claudie

Halloween has passed, but I think the idea is great and can be used for many other occasions! love it! 🙂
on October 27, 2011 at 14:50 polwig

These look awesome… You should have told me I would have driven down to meet with you in Suffolk, maybe next year.
- on October 27, 2011 at 19:22 mydanishkitchen
  
  Oh that would have been fun, your kids would have loved it. One of these days we’ll get together 🙂
on October 26, 2011 at 21:36 Julie M.

Mmm! chocolate and pretzels never get old. You made some cute faces! That festival looks like a lot of fun as well.
on October 24, 2011 at 19:47 danielle krawiec

Love chocolate pretzels! I am making some for halloween but im a cheater and using those plastic molds..i suppose this would have been an easier idea..d’oh!
on October 24, 2011 at 12:37 Gina

Gitte,
These came out so good and their faces are so expressive. I worked with those markers recently and I didn’t have that kind of luck. Maybe I will give them another shot. Happy Halloween.
-GIna-
on October 24, 2011 at 11:29 Winnie

It’s sooooooo cute
Spooky and beautiful. I really love it
on October 24, 2011 at 08:47 bakingjenn

These are ADORABLE! I live in Virginia but not near Suffolk. Looks like a neat festival – those are always fun. But back to your ghost pretzels – what a simple, perfect idea for Halloween. Very impressed.
on October 24, 2011 at 07:02 Tina@flourtrader

Perfect and easy for Halloween-I love all the expressions you did here, well done! Looks like I need to start working on some ghost faces…thanks for sharing.
- on October 24, 2011 at 07:38 mydanishkitchen
  
  Thank you for your kind words Tina!