These are trouble. Big fat, chocolate dipped trouble.

I certainly can NOT have these things only lying around the house. Sweet, salty ANNNNND peanut buttery, I mean c’mon this is my dream snack.

So that’s why when I had visions of Pat coming home from work to find me deep in some delirious-chocolate-peanut-butter-induced coma with the evidence smeared all over my face and sprinkles all over the place, I decided it would be dependable if I packaged the majority of these Dark Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites and brought them into work and forced my coworkers to EAT THEM ALL before my dream… became my reality.

To Make These Dark Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites Set out:

100 pretzels (I used Snyder’s)
1 cup creamy smooth peanut butter
1-1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 bag dark chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli 60% cacao)
flaked sea salt (optional)
sprinkles (optional)

Only like this dish, it’s not too scratchy and it’s also been done a hundred times, a thousand different ways. But it is the dependable goody to set out for a party {or have in your bed side table wha-what?}. Everyone will be hovering over the plate of these and they’ll be gone in not time.

Start by spreading out 50 pretzels. I used a silpat but you can use parchment or wax paper. Whichever non-stick surface you use is fine as long as you use something. I made the mistake before of letting these set up on a plate and well, they were GLUED to the plate and I couldn’t get them off. Lesson learned.

In the bowl of your mixer combine the light brown sugar, powdered sugar, butter and pb.

Mix on medium speed until all combined and crumbly.

Measure a half a tablespoon of the pb dough and form into rectangles.

Set them onto the pretzel and keep goin’ until all the pretzels are covered.

Grab a big bowl of pretzels. You know I guess you could use round pretzels, but I like the square. It reminds me of presents and I like love presents, so I went with it.

And press gently so the pretzels stick to the peanut butter center.

I genuinely could stop here and slide the whole sheet pan of these right on into my mouth, BUT I figured why not dunk them in dark chocolate?

I slowly heated a bag of dark chocolate (60% cocoa) chips in the microwave.

Then I stirred the chocolate every 20 seconds until smooth. It’s so much easier this way, promise!

Grab a PB pretzel sandwich and dunk.

Then only allow the chocolate to drip back into the bowl.

Oh. Em. GEE.

And then let them set up on the silpat (or parchment) until the chocolate hardens. If you need to speed this process up then only pop them into the fridge for 15 minutes.

BUTTTT before you do that give them a little sprinkle action…

Orrrr sea salt action! Ohhhh yes.

By the way, I’m not sure who invented this peanut butter filling stuff, but it’s like eating the center of a Reese’s peanut butter cup. For reals.

Dependable bite-size pieces of heaven. Need I say more?

Enjoy! And if you give this Dark Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites recipe a try, let me know! Snap a photo and tag me on twitter or instagram!