Recipe: Frankenstein Finger Halloween Pretzel Treats

If Halloween ghosts and witches feel a little too dark or spooky for your kids (or you!), consider the monster instead. As we were working on our list of the top 10 classic Halloween treats of all time, paging through 50 years of women’s magazines, these monstrous pretzel fingers came up over and over again. Is this the year you finally make them? Yes!

Party pretzels have shown up across magazines for ages, but really burst onto the scene with Pinterest in the 2000s. But a monster is always a good entryway for Halloween; it’s a little less spooky, and a little more colorful.

“2018 is the year of the monster,” Nancy Hopkins of Better Homes and Gardens told us. “The happy, friendly monster.”

These are easy treats — just melt some white chocolate with food coloring, and dip away. The secret to getting a good coating on your chocolate is moving the melted white chocolate chips to a tall, narrow drinking glass; use the side of the glass to guide the chocolate up the pretzel rod and use the edge to wipe away excess coating.

Frankenstein fingers are also surprisingly delicious and grown-up-friendly. The pretzel rod with white chocolate crunch is a delightful monster mash-up of sweet and salty flavors. Plus you can carry a Frankenstein finger in one hand and a Halloween punch in the other.

Halloween is the best holiday to play with your food! We’re counting down the 10 most iconic Halloween treats of the last 50 years, showing you the easiest ways to make them at home for maximum spooky fun.