Snowflake pretzels

QQMakes 8 Prep 25 mins plus setting Cook 5 mins

Q200g white chocolate chips or buttons, plus 50g extra to make snowflake lollies (optional)

32 mini pretzels (about 45g) white or silver sprinkles

You will need

8 lolly sticks (optional)

1 Line a baking tray with baking parchment. Melt the chocolate in a microwave or bowl set over a pan of simmering water, ensuring the base doesn’t touch the water. Remove from the heat, leaving the bowl over the pan, if using. Add the pretzels and stir well.

2 Lift the pretzels out of the chocolate with a fork, shaking a little to remove the excess, then put on the tray and chill in the freezer for 5 mins to set.

3 Dip the pretzels in the chocolate again, then lay four at a time together on the tray and push together, with the pointy ends in the centre, to make a snowflake shape. Add a blob more chocolate using the end of a teaspoon to the middle of each snowflake so they hold together when set. Before they’ve set, decorate with sprinkles. Leave in a cold place and leave to set completely, or return to the freezer to speed up the process.

4 To make the pretzel snowflake lollipops, melt the extra 50g chocolate as before and make eight well-spaced blobs, the size of a 1p coin, on a sheet of baking parchment. Put a lolly stick on each blob so one end is in the chocolate, then press a pretzel snowflake gently on top and leave somewhere cold to set. Will keep for up to two days in a cool place. PER SERVING 162 kcals, fat 8g, saturates 5g,

carbs 19g, sugars 15g, fibre none, protein 3g, salt 0.3g