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These spring pretzel bites are the perfect Easter treat. They are sweet with a touch of salt, creamy and crunchy. There’s no way you can limit yourself to just one or two! These delicious Easter Bunny pretzel treats are simple to make and ideal for Easter, to welcome the spring season or simply because they sound too good to miss – and they are definitely that!
All you need to make these spring flower pretzel bites are 3 ingredients. They’re quick and easy and munching on a pretzel treat is a treat indeed!
If you love to make quick and easy treats, you might also be interested in whipping up Lucky Charms Rice Krispie treats, Nutter Butter Hatching Chick Cookies, or these Baby Chick Mini Cheese Balls. Puffed wheat squares are delicious too!
Why You’ll Love These
Easy: Spring flower pretzel bites are so simple to make. With just three different ingredients you can make these gorgeous little bunny treats.
Tasty: The combination of pretzels, Hershey’s hug candies and M&Ms means a wonderful combination of sweet and salty flavors – a winning combo!
Festive: Although you can make these anytime you like, they’re especially perfect for Easter or to welcome spring!
Spring Flower Pretzel Bite Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below
Waffle-shaped pretzels: The Snyders regular waffle pretzels work well here.
Hershey’s hug candies: These brown and white striped candies melt on to the pretzels and hold the M&Ms in place. Use a similar brown and white candy if you like.
M&Ms: Choose the pastel colored ones if you can get them, as they’re more springlike or Easter-like.
How to Make Easter Pretzel Treats
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card
Assemble the treats: Arrange pretzels on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and top each one with a hug candy.
Melt the candies: Bake the hug candy topped pretzel bites for a few minutes until the hugs melt.
Top with M&Ms: Press an M&M candy into each pretzel bite and leave them to cool and set before serving.
Substitutions and Variations
Change up the candies: Feel free to use another kind of chocolate candy on the Easter pretzel bites. Anything that melts will work. You can also use a different type of M&M or the regular colors.
Not keen on pretzels? You can use mini cookies instead.
Serving Suggestions
Sweet treats: Want to make a festive candy selection? You might like Italian Easter cookies, butterscotch peanut butter haystacks or mini egg nest cupcakes.
More festive favorites: Pizza giana rustica is a lovely Italian savory pie which is popular around Easter, or perhaps you want to try making honey glazed ham with smoked potato salad.
How to Store Flower Bunny Treats
Store: Keep these in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
Freeze: These don’t freeze well – the pretzels would thaw out mushy.
Top Tips
Use regular waffle snap pretzels: These work better than the butter ones. You can also use twist pretzels although the chocolate candy will spill over the sides a little.
Get the oven temperature right: 200 degrees F is enough to melt the Hershey’s hugs in a few minutes. If it’s any hotter the outside of the chocolate candy will melt quickly and the inside won’t.
Set them fast: Pop the finished spring flower pretzel bites in the refrigerator for 10 minutes and they’ll set quickly.
Spring Flower Pretzel Bites FAQs
You can use gluten-free pretzels (here) for these. Hershey’s hugs aren’t gluten-free so you can use your preferred gluten-free chocolate candies instead. Most Mu0026Ms are gluten-free except the crispy ones and the pretzel-filled ones.
No, but if you use the twisty square pretzels, they don’t hold the melted Hershey’s hug so well and might look a bit messy.
Spring Flower Pretzel Bites
Spring Pretzel Bites
Ingredients
- 60 pretzels, waffle-shaped
- 60 chocolates, Hershey Hugs, unwrapped
- 60 chocolate candies, pastel-colored M&M’s
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place the pretzels on the prepared baking sheet and top each pretzel with a hugs candy.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 5 minutes or until the hugs are shiny and melted.
- Remove from the oven and place an M&M on top of each melted hugs candy, pressing down into place.
- Allow the chocolate to cool and set before serving.
Nutrition
You’re going to love these cute flower pretzel bites. They are cute Easter treats made with pretzel snaps, a brown and white candy melt and a pastel M&M candy on top. With just these 3 ingredients you can make one of the tastiest Easter recipes you ever had. The salty square pretzels are topped with gently melted brown and white chocolate to resemble flower petals and then on top you have a pastel colored M&M candy. This recipe is quick and easy and the chocolate pretzel bites are seriously tasty!
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
There was no leftovers. It was so good! 🙂
I’m over the moon with how delicious this dish is. It’s definitely going to be a regular on our dinner table!
This was so lovely! Kids (and adults) love it in our household.