Pretzel Spider Webs

Creepy, chocolate, and oh so cute, these pretzel spider webs are made with melted cacao wafers, topped with cacao nibs and eyes.

Prep Time15

Cook Time1

Total Time1 15

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 255kcal

Assemble 8 broken mini pretzel sticks so that the ends of them are touching in the middle on parchment paper.
Melt the chocolate in a double-boiler (tempered glass bowl on top of a boiling pot of water), then add the avocado oil and mix to combine.
Secure the pretzels with a teaspoon of melted chocolate right into the middle of the pretzels.
Scoop the chocolate using a teaspoon, then drizzle the chocolate in a circular motion around the pretzel sticks creating a “web” effect.
Sprinkle the cacao nibs in the middle of the web creating the spider eyes, then chill in the fridge for 1-2 hours.
Once set, carefully lift the spider webs from the parchment paper using a spatula. Decorate the middle of the spider web by making a few spider eyes with glittery white icing and serve.

Break the pretzel sticks in half so that they webs are not too large. I tested this twice and each time the webs were too big with the sticks as is, so breaking them in half is a lot easier to work with.
Use a spoon to drizzle, NOT a piping bag. In my first the test the chocolate was literally everywhere. Unless you want to be on hands and knees mopping melting chocolate, just use a spoon and drizzle around the pretzels.
Add a little olive or avocado oil to the chocolate to make it even more luxe and shiny.
Give the chocolate plenty of time to set. There are no fillers or additives to the cacao wafers I used here, so if the chocolate is left out, it will start to melt. At least an hour of chill time is perfect.