INGREDIENTS

  • 3/4 cup white vanilla chips (or 5 oz. vanilla-flavored candy coating)
  • 72miniature pretzels
  • 6 pieces red licorice strings (24 inches each)

DIRECTIONS

  1. Line 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper.
  2. In small saucepan, melt vanilla chips over low heat, stirring constantly.
  3. Using 6 pretzels, form a circle on waxed paper-lined cookie sheet, placing side of pretzel with 1 hole on outside of ring.
  4. Remove 1 pretzel from circle; dip inner section (side with 2 holes) halfway into melted vanilla chips.
  5. Place dipped pretzel back into circle formation. Continue with remaining pretzels in circle.
  6. To form top layer of wreath, dip 6 additional pretzels, one at a time, in coating. Place over first circle so that coated holes overlap 2 pretzels.
  7. Repeat to make 5 additional wreaths. Refrigerate wreaths 15 minutes or until coating is firm.
  8. Weave 1 piece of string licorice through coated holes in each pretzel. Tie bow with licorice ends.
  9. MICROWAVE DIRECTIONS: Place vanilla chips in 2-cup microwave-safe measuring cup.
  10. Microwave on MEDIUM for 2 to 3 minutes or until melted, stirring once halfway through cooking. Stir until smooth. Continue as directed above.