No candy thermometer needed for this divine easy chocolate toffee pretzel bark with a little sprinkle of sea salt. It is easy and delicious!

You are either going to love me or hate me for this recipe.

Five ingredients.

Most of which probably reside in your pantry right now.

A plate of caramel, chocolate, pretzel bark.

Five ingredients that result in some of the most addictive faux-candy known to man.

Super easy chocolate toffee pretzel bark (with a little sprinkle of sea salt) is closer than you can even imagine.

And guess what? Huge bonus here, because you don’t need a candy thermometer to make this chocolate toffee pretzel bark.

Yet you’ll still end up with a divine toffee that is made other-worldly by being baked on top of salty pretzels and furthered by a smothering of rich, dark chocolate and a sprinkle of sea salt.

A plate of caramel, chocolate, pretzel bark.

I’m not sure my life will ever be the same.

Neither will my postpartum hips, for that matter, but that’s a personal problem I’ll work out on my own.

Basically, to get this chocolate toffee pretzel bark from the web and into your kitchen, you’re going to simply line a large, rimmed baking sheet with foil and sprinkle it with broken mini pretzels (time to take out your aggression).

Then, a simple mixture of butter and brown sugar bubbles on the stove for a whopping three minutes before it’s poured over the pretzels.

If you are thinking this is very similar to the saltine toffee recipes floating around everywhere, you are a smart cookie.

You’re going to bake that pretzel/caramel combo, top it with chocolate, then spread the melty chocolate evenly over the top, and finish with a smattering of sea salt.

It’s almost too simple.

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Salted Chocolate Toffee Pretzel Bark

4.54 stars (260 ratings)

Ingredients

  • About 8-ounces (227 g) mini pretzels, (half of a 1-pound bag) broken into smaller pieces, more or less to cover the pan
  • 1 cup (227 g) butter
  • 1 cup (212 g) packed light brown sugar
  • 2 cups (340 g) semisweet chocolate chips
  • Sea salt

Instructions 

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line an 11X17-inch rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment paper. Cover the bottom of the pan in a layer of broken mini pretzels. Set aside.
  • In a small or medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the butter and brown sugar. When the mixture starts to gently simmer and bubble, let it cook for 3 minutes without stirring. Immediately pour the hot caramel mixture over the pretzels in a back and forth motion to cover most of the pretzels (a few empty/dry spots are ok as the caramel will fuse together during baking).
  • Bake for 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and place the pan on a cooling rack. Immediately sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over the top of the hot caramel and pretzels. Let the chocolate chips sit for 2-3 minutes until they melt. Use an offset spatula or rubber spatula to gently spread the melted chocolate over the toffee. Lightly sprinkle with sea salt.
  • Let the toffee cool completely at room temperature then refrigerate if needed to help the chocolate set up. Break the toffee into pieces and try not to eat the whole batch.

Notes

Chocolate: my preferred brand of chocolate is Ghirardelli.
Serving: 1 Serving, Calories: 676kcal, Carbohydrates: 73g, Protein: 6g, Fat: 41g, Saturated Fat: 25g, Cholesterol: 64mg, Sodium: 574mg, Fiber: 4g, Sugar: 44g

Recipe Source: adapted slightly from a recipe sent to me by Sara R. via Flower Patch Farmgirl