Product Description

With this kit it's easy to mold tempting pretzel pops perfect for gifts, favors and celebrations. Just melt the Candy Melts®, place a pretzel in the mold and fill with candy. You can also create dazzling designs by painting candy details in the mold before adding the pretzel. Serve them with style in the clear treat bags included—so everyone can see how great your pretzels look!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92472 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Wilton
• Model: 2104-1650
• Released on: 2008-03-11
• Dimensions: 2.40" h x 8.65" w x 7.40" l, .96 pounds

Features

• Includes 2 Swirl Pretzel Molds, 5 oz. White Candy Melts®, 5 oz. Light Cocoa Candy Melts® and 20 Clear Treat Bags with twist ties.
• Certified Kosher.

Customer Reviews

Takes a little time to get them right.
This kit was not quite what I expected. First it has these beautiful pictures of two-tone designs, but then when you open it, the instructions say that you need a special brush to 'paint' in the minute details (which was not included). Kind of misleading to show these pictures on a kit, and then not include everything you need to be able to make them like that.

Then it took a few tries to get the candy to mold into the trays properly without being too runny. I was also disappointed that it seems they expect you to have the pretzel end up with candy on one side only, and the back side looks a little funky if the candy isn't super fluidy when you press the pretzel in. However, I was able to find a solution to this as well. I simply make one side, chill it, then make another on the same pretzel's back, so it now has candy all the way around. Looks much nicer in my opinion.

I had to buy regular almond bark from the locol grocery to be able to make the designs (the included candy never got fluid enough). I used ziplock bags and cut a tiny hole in the corner and just streamed it into the swirl designs. It worked for me, but it also took some tries to figure out how to get the stream to consistently go where I wanted.

So maybe these just need some practice before they'll look great, but for that you'll need more candy than what's included.

Overall, I was able to make these work for me, so it's okay that it wasn't what was expected from the description. And the designs are pretty when you get them to work. So I will be making more!

Took a few tries to use them properly
The first time I used the molds, I put some chocolate in the bottom of the molds, then laid the pretzels in, then completely covered the pretzels with a thick layer of chocolate. They were way too chocolately. It works better if you don't cover the back with a thick layer of chocolate, but instead, thinly cover the back of the pretzels. It makes a much better ratio of pretzel to chocolate. I also used 1/2 length pretzel rods. I purchased plastic bottles with tips at a craft store, in the candy making aisle. I melted the chocolates first, then poured them into the bottles. The liquid chocolate was easy to control with the tips. I did not bother with a brush. I used melting chocolate bars that I bought at a warehouse club. It melted easily and set up (in the freezer for 5 minutes) just fine. They popped right out of the molds and looked pretty nice.