The basic method to making all of these cute chocolate covered pretzels is the same. You'll melt 1/2 cup of dark or white chocolate, adding food coloring where needed, coat the pretzel in the chocolate (for some of them you'll fill in the pretzel holes with more melted chocolate- which I will specify in each Halloween creature below), attach the candy eyes, the stems, or pumpkin seeds, sprinkles and let them set up/harden. You'll get 7-10 of each pretzel character.

Tip: After you coat in the melted chocolate, place on parchment paper and finish decorating.

Owls

For these chocolate covered pretzel owls you will need chocolate covered pretzels, either pre-made (I used JoJo’s Chocolate Covered Pretzels) or you can coat your own by melting dark chocolate chips and coating the pretzels in the chocolate. I should have coated them with chocolate on my own, they would have looked nicer, but for ease it was nice to have the pretzels already covered in chocolate.

Add melted chocolate to covered all of the holes, add the eyes and raw pumpkin seeds for the beaks.

I used mini chocolate chips (affiliate link) (from Enjoy Life) as the little “eyebrows” above the eyes.

Pumpkins

To make the pumpkin pretzels you’ll need to melt 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips, melted, and add orange food coloring. Attach the pretzel stems by dipping the end in the melted chocolate and attaching it the the top. Then add a pumpkin seed for the leaf (optional).

Mummies

For these mummies, first you’ll coat each pretzel in melted white chocolate and add the candy eyes in the top two holes of the pretzel. You can fill those holes with white chocolate and then add the eyes. I like to keep the bottom hole open to look like a mouth.

Allow the pretzels to harden and THEN add the drizzles of chocolate for the mummy cloth look. If you don’t wait until the first layer sets, the strands of white chocolate will blend right in and you’ll end up with a blob.

Green Monsters

To make these one-eyed green monsters, you’ll need 1/2 cup vegan/dairy-free white chocolate chips (affiliate link), melted, plant-based green food coloring, green sprinkles, and large candy eyes.

For these monsters, you’ll want to make sure you decorate the pretzels upside down so that the “heart shape” is the bottom of the monster… if that makes sense. It works best to coat the pretzel in the green colored white chocolate, then generously sprinkle the green sprinkles over top (don’t dunk them in) and then add a small dollop of green white chocolate at the top to fasten the eye to the body.

Purple Monsters

Same as the green monsters.