SusieQTpies Cafe: Halloween Ghostly Chocolate Pretzel Rods and Menu Plan Monday

Welcome to Halloween Week! Here is my Monday Menu Plan which is our favorite Halloween Menu Plan! There are so many easy recipes to add extra fun into your Halloween week. I hope some of these will work for your family. I'm also sharing the Ghostly Chocolate Pretzel Rods which is a guest recipe from Franci Cohen who is a Personal trainer, Certified Nutritionist and an Exercise Physiologist.

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Ghostly Chocolate Pretzel Rods

Ingredients:

- 1 box salted pretzel rods

- 16 oz fine white baking chocolate

- An edible ink black baking marker
- Wax paper

Directions:

1. Melt chocolate in double boiler or on the stove.

2. Dip 1 end of a pretzel rod into melted Chocolate to cover pretzel approx. 2" down

3. Lay chocolate covered pretzels on wax paper-lined tray

4. Repeat with remaining pretzels until all are covered in chocolate

5. Place baking tray in freezer for 5 minutes until chocolate hardens

6. Remove pretzel tray from freezer and using baking markers, draw scary ghostly faces on the pretzels.

Your ghostly pretzel rods are ready to eat!

Monday - Ghost Chili, Jello Brain and Fruit Salad Skewers

Tuesday - Dinner in a Pumpkin, Critter Snack Attack and Super Quick Pumpkin Dip

Wednesday - Carve those pumpkins and try one of these 20+ Ways to Cook Pumpkin Seeds or make Pumpkin Soup, crackers and grilled cheese sandwiches

Thursday - Happy Halloween - Mummy Face Pizza, Finger food, Snack Mix, Toxic Waste Punch and Spooky Treats for the Party

Friday - Pizza Crockpot Soup and Kid Zombie Drinks

Weekend - Leftovers ;) We have parties over the weekend so I will pick something from the Fall Beef, Chicken or Dessert Crockpot Recipe list to make and take for each one.

I hope you enjoyed my Menu Planning Monday ideas. Feel free to go through the recipe box for other options. I don't know about you but I do find Dinner time menu planning easier in the fall because you can use your crockpot more!