Ingredients

The following ingredients have 22 Servings
  • 140 Snyder’s of Hanover Pretzel Dipping Sticks
  • 4 ounces Peanut Butter Candy Melts or Reese's Peanut Butter Chips
  • 12 ounces White Candy Melts ((confectionery coating))
  • 8 ounces melted and tempered pure milk chocolate or melted Light Cocoa Candy Melts
  • 12 ounces white modeling chocolate
  • yellow, orange, dark brown (or black) food coloring
  • 40 large (1/2-inch) candy eyes
  • black food coloring marker

Instruction

  • Combine the peanut butter candy melts or chips and the white candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl.
  • Heat the wafers on high for 20-30 second increments, stirring after each until melted.
  • Pour the melted peanut butter candy coating into a tall glass or jar.
  • Hold onto one end of a pretzel stick and dip it into the candy coating, covering about 80% of the pretzel.
  • Lift the pretzel out of the peanut butter candy coating and shake it allowing the excess to drip off.
  • Set on a parchment-paper-lined baking sheet.
  • Continue dipping 5 more pretzels, setting them next to each other.
  • Pop in the refrigerator for 3-5 minutes just until the candy coating sets.
  • Repeat creating a total of 20 groupings of 6 peanut butter candy-coated pretzels.
  • Drop a pretzel into a bowl of melted and tempered pure milk chocolate or melted light cocoa candy melts.
  • Use a dipping fork or kitchen fork to remove the pretzel, then set it on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
  • Refrigerate for 3 minutes until the chocolate sets.
  • Color some white modeling chocolate orange, yellow, yellow-orange, and dark brown or black.
  • Roll out some of the yellow-orange modeling chocolate and cut thin strips for the hair.
  • Roll out the orange and cut small triangles for the noses.
  • Use a daisy plunger cutter to cut two yellow daisies, set one on top of another, press into the center using a wood dowel, then brush a dab of water on a small ball of dark brown modeling chocolate and insert it into the center.
  • Attach some modeling chocolate hair to the un-coated part of the pretzels so that the hair falls down over the peanut butter coated portion of the pretzels (the scarecrow's face).
  • Use small dabs of chocolate to make them stick if needed.
  • Dip the top of pretzel scarecrow milk chocolate to create his hat.
  • Set on a non-stick mat or a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
  • Set one chocolate dipped pretzel across the bottom edge of the wet chocolate so that it covers the tips of the modeling chocolate hair and it creates the hat's brim.
  • Set one sunflower in one corner of the chocolate hat.
  • Use chocolate to attach two candy eyes to the peanut butter pretzels.
  • Attach one orange triangle nose using a dab of chocolate.
  • Use a black food coloring marker to draw on a smile.