Chocolate Caramel Pretzels

This pretzels are the best things ever. After Mom made them for my wedding, people talked about them for a long time. These are the ones Mom and I made for Amy's baby shower. We did the pretzel rods instead of the twisty pretzels because we could fit more onto a pan and they take up less caramel. They kind of look like clubs, but the important thing is that they taste good. Mom bought the long rods and we just broke them in half and covered the broken end with the caramel and chocolate.

Ingredients:
Pretzels
Milk chocolate melting chips-Mom just bought the chocolate chips from Michael's that is used for candy making. It was only a few bucks for a package.
White chocolate melting chips

Here is the caramel recipe. It comes from the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook.

Ingredients:
1 C Butter
2 1/4 C Packed Brown Sugar
2 C Half and Half or Light Cream
1 C Light-Colored Corn Syrup
1 t Vanilla

In a saucepan melt butter over low heat. Add brown sugar, half and half, and corn syrup and mix well. Cook and stir constantly over medium-high heat until the mixture boils. Put a candy thermometer on the side of the pan and reduce heat to medium. Continue boiling and stirring until the mixture reaches 248 degrees.
Remove from heat. Remove thermometer and stir in vanilla.

Prepare a cookie sheet with wax paper sprayed generously with non stick spray. The caramel may still stick, but it is a lot easier to coax it off if it has been sprayed.

Once the caramel is ready dip part of your pretzel in and place it on the cookie sheet. Put caramel pretzels in the fridge to cool (It only takes a few minutes.). While they are cooling, heat up the chocolate in the microwave according to the package directions.

Dip each of the caramel covered pretzels in the melted chocolate and put them back on the pan and back in the fridge to cool and solidify. While they are setting up you can melt the white chocolate in the microwave. This is just drizzled over the top to look pretty. The pretzels will need to go back in the fridge for a few minutes while the white chocolate sets up and then they are done.