Easy Fall Treats

Posted: November 4, 2010 | Author: Alyssa | Filed under: Alyssa | 2 Comments »

Have you ever worked your butt off cooking a meal with multiple courses, complex cooking technique and about three days of planning and inevitably everyone is blown away by the amazing dip you made which took three minues?  Maybe thats just me.  The point I’m trying to get at is that people seem to enjoy the majority of food that I make, but it always seems to be the simplest things that really give them that  ”holy cow amazing food” feeling.  I find this especially true with teenagers.  I will make chocolate mint brownies with chocolate ganache from scratch and they are happy, yet they squeal with amazement when I bring in Dunkin Donuts.  Tonight has been no exception.  I am on duty in the dorm and normally I try to bring treats every time I’m on, since this is their home for 9 months out of the year.  I have brought cupcakes, cookies, brownies, you name it and tonight is the night that my treats are gone in approximately 45 seconds.  If you want a RIDICULOUSLY simple crowd pleaser here it is:

All it takes is a bag of marshmallows ( I tend to use vegan when I can get them, especially when I am making for other people), a couple ounces of semisweet chocolate, some pretzels and caramel (preferably home made, but I used Smuckers since I didn’t have the time or patience to make caramel, besides it comes in that convenient little squeeze bottle!) 

Step One: Melt chocolate until it is smooth, I use the microwave stirring at 30 second intervals.

Step Two:  While the chocolate is melting, crush up the pretzels into pieces, they don’t have to be fully smashed just in smaller pieces than a whole pretzel.

Step Three: Dip half of marshmallow into chocolate and then roll in pretzel pieces.

Step Four: Place on foil or parchment, once you have a full tray put in the fridge for a few minutes to set the chocolate. 

Step Five: Drizzle with caramel and eat.

Step Six: Make more, because your first batch is probably gone already.

This is the quickest and easiest thing I have probably ever made and everyone LOVES them.  I’m not sure why they tend to feel like fall treats, but its probably something to do with the color scheme .  From start to finish this probably took about 10 minutes and that was with a couple of stops to hand out candy to the cutest trick or treaters I have ever seen. 

Enjoy!