Independence Day Recipes
Uncle Sam Pretzel Candies
Yield: 2 dozen candies
Ingredients
- 10 ounces white chocolate baking squares or almond bark coating
- 24 thin pretzel sticks
- 24 dry roasted peanuts
- 12 large marshmallows, each cut in half vertically
- 24 mini marshmallows
- 1 (10 ounce) package candy-coated chocolate candies
Instructions
- Cover 2 cookie sheets with wax paper; set aside.
- Heat white chocolate or almond bark coating in a microwave safe bowl for 2 minutes on high or until melted. Stir until smooth.
- Select 24 red candies and 48 blue candies. Set aside remaining candies for another use.
- To assemble the "Uncle Sam" faces, place a teaspoon of the melted white chocolate in an oval shape on the wax paper.
- Press a marshmallow half on the top of the melted chocolate oval for a hat.
- Press a pretzel stick (horizontally) directly below it to make a hat brim.
- Then place 2 blue chocolate candies for eyes, a peanut for the nose and a red chocolate candy for the mouth.
- Press a mini marshmallow below the mouth for a goatee.
- Repeat with remaining ingredients to make 24 Uncle Sams.
- Allow to harden for a few minutes, then remove candies from wax paper.
Attribution
Posted by luvtocook at Recipe Goldmine 6/16/01 6:30:00 am.