There are only a handful of ingredients in these simple but outrageously decadent and fun dessert bars from Food & Wine's Justin Chapple. If hard pretzels aren't your thing, feel free to swap in thinner pretzels.
I have made this recipe at least 10 times with a few tweaks.
You need to adjust the recipe to make it work.
Use a 13x9 pan.
Up the butter to 2 sticks.
You may or may not want to add 1 cup of ground peanuts to the graham crackers
when you are grinding them. It works with or without but the peanuts add another layer of flavor.
You MUST refrigerate for several hours - not 45 min - before cutting them.
Then they don't separate or fall apart at all and they taste really delicious.
I also don't usually add the sugar to the graham cracker crust and use just enough pretzels to cover nicely.
There is WAY too much graham cracker crust for a 9" pan. I actually used two 9" pans and even then the crust was too thick. I also had issues with the chocolate layer separating from the crust. And way too many pretzels. As another reviewer stated, they are a crumbly mess. I won't be making these again.
I have made this twice and both times the graham cracker crust separated from the chocolate crust. I made an effort to press it down more the second time and it still did not work.
Flavors are good but a crumbly mess.
Keith—no one can answer this question for you as it is dependent on the Graham crackers, chocolate and pretzels you use. While none of the ingredients would typically have peanuts, you need to read the packages to ensure they were nor produced where cross contamination could occur. Usually they will say so near where the ingredients are listed.
I loved these and plan to make them again. Are these safe for people with tree nut and pecan allergies? They seem safe but I want to be sure before I bring them to a friend's house whose child has the above allergies.
These sounded so good, but no. Way too much graham cracker to butter (and way too much graham cracker crust to chocolate topping, like twice as much as needed). Way too much pretzel topping, again like twice as much as needed. The crust separated from the chocolate and crumbled. Seriously I wonder if the recipe creator even tested these. Complete fail. Or maybe this person doesn't understand how recipes are written and was just writing down the weights from the packages they bought? Because graham crackers do come in a 14-ounce box.
