Caramel
1 cup karo syrup
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 cube of butter
1 can sweetened condensed milk
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Put first 5 ingredients in a large sauce pan over
medium heat and stir until melted and combined.
Bring to a boil and stir
for five minutes. Be careful to keep stirring so that it doesn't start
to burn on the bottom of the pan.
Take caramel off the burner after 5
minutes.Put the hot caramel in a deep container. I used my Pyrex 4 cup
measuring cup
Prepare a couple cookie sheets lined with wax
paper.
Dip pretzel rod in caramel, about 3/4 of the way and let it drip
off any excess caramel.
Then lay the rod on the cookie sheet.Repeat with
remaining pretzels.
Put cookie sheets in the fridge to help set up caramel.Once caramel is set, lift up each pretzel rod off the wax paper and mold caramel around the rod since it will puddle on the sides as it cools.
Prepare the cookie sheets again with new pieces of
wax paper.
Melt chocolate in a deep container and dip caramel covered
pretzel rods.Place chocolate covered pretzel rods on cookie sheets and
place in fridge to set up.
Melt the vanilla candy melts in the microwave. When completely melted, use a knife to dip into the melted chocolate, then drizzle the chocolate on the rods.Place back into the fridge to set up.
