This chocolate pretzel bark is the perfect easy treat for your sweet tooth. It is made with dairy-free chocolate chips, gluten-free pretzels, vegan butter, and more. It only takes about 15 minutes to throw it all together and tastes amazing!
Simply heat brown sugar and vegan butter to make the caramel toffee, pour it on top of crunched-up pretzels, cook, and melt chocolate chips on top. Sprinkle it with sea salt and you have the most amazing toffee pretzel bark.
This chocolate pretzel toffee bark is the perfect homemade gluten and dairy-free candy to bring to just about any event. I’ve brought it to showers, cook-outs (where it can be kept in a refrigerator until time to serve), and dinner parties. It is even a great treat to put in plastic decorated bags and give out for a Christmas treat or birthday treat.
This is also a great treat to eat while relaxing and watching tv once the kids have gone to bed. The hardest part is stopping eating it once you’ve started!
My favorite recipes are ones that I can make in the kitchen while my toddler looks on and helps. This one doesn’t disappoint. Crushing pretzels up onto the tray kept my toddler occupied for a long time. She was also able to help measure out the butter and sugar as well as break the toffee candy up into pieces once it was hardened (and of course help me lick off the spoons!)
Gluten Free Pretzel Bark Tips for Success
*For this recipe, I used Snyders gluten-free pretzels. I crunched up the pretzel pieces to make them smaller. This way you also get more pretzels in each bite. You are able to substitute any other brands of gluten-free pretzels or wheat-based pretzels as well and the recipe will still turn out great.
*My favorite brand of chocolate to use is Enjoy Life dairy-free chocolate chips. I have also used Costco’s Kirkland brand dairy-free chocolate chips (make sure you read the ingredients because they make two different Kirkland brand chocolate chips and one of them is not dairy-free). You should be able to substitute any brand of chocolate chops in place of these.
Be sure to cook the vegan butter/brown sugar mix for an additional three minutes, stirring occasionally, after it starts to boil. This will ensure that the mixture starts to caramelize but doesn’t burn.
Dairy and Gluten Free Toffee Chocolate Pretzel Bark Recipe
Ingredients:
- 3/4 bag (6oz) gluten-free pretzels
- 1 cup (2 sticks) dairy-free butter (I use Country Crock Plant Butter)
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup dairy-free chocolate chips
- sea salt
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Line a standard cookie sheet with foil. Spray the foil with cooking spray.
- Crush gluten-free pretzels into smaller pieces and fill the tray with one even layer of them, making sure they don’t overlap as best as possible. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine dairy-free butter and brown sugar, stirring occasionally.
- Bring the butter and sugar mixture to a boil. Once boiling, set a timer and continue to cook for 3 minutes.
- Remove from heat and immediately pour the caramelized sugar mixture over the pretzels. Cover as much as possible, however, if there are small spaces and holes left uncovered this will be fixed in the next step.
- Insert the tray into the preheated oven and cook for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat, turn off the oven, and immediately sprinkle chocolate chips over the top of the toffee pretzel mixture.
- Insert the tray back into the turned-off oven but keep the oven open. The heat will soften the chocolate. Leave in the warm oven for 2 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and use a spatula to smooth the chocolate over all of the pan.
- Sprinkle with sea salt if desired.
- Let cool on the counter for 30 minutes. Then stick it in the fridge for an hour+ (or the freezer if you are impatient and want to eat it sooner).
- Once it is cooled and your chocolate is hardened, remove the pan from the fridge and break it into small pieces. Peel any remaining foil off of the back.
- Serve immediately after removing from the fridge. Store any remaining pieces of toffee candy in an airtight container in the fridge.
Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 5 Minutes
Chill Time: 1 Hour
Servings: 20
As you can tell dessert is a favorite in our house. I am a firm believer that you should have dessert after every dinner (and lunch too)! Probably not the most healthy habit but it sure tastes great!
For some other delicious gluten and dairy-free dessert ideas be sure to check out these peanut butter chocolate cereal bars and/or homemade peanut butter cups. Both are super easy to make and some of our favorite recipes!
This looks soooo yummy! I’m definitely saving this to make later. We love desserts in our house too!
Thank you so much! Dessert is the best!
Such a easy to make recipe and it looks so tempting.
Yes, so easy and delicious!
These look absolutely delectable! And because they’re so dark on the outside, I can tell my kids “they’re burnt” and they won’t ask for bites! 😜
Thanks so much! Thats a great idea! My toddler always loves to steal my food as well. My go-to is that something is spicy!
I loveeee chocolate covered pretzels, so I bet this bark tastes amazing with the toffee added too!
Thanks so much! Yes, it takes them a step further and is so good!
Can’t wait to try this! Looks simpler yet delicious!
Thanks so much Melissa!
This is amazing! Can’t wait to try it out! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much Nora!
This is a perfect treat with 2 of the yummiest items I could want! Not to mention one my boys will eat too! Thanks so much!
Thanks so much Cathey! Yes, it is kid approved and so good!
Looks so easy to make. Who wouldn’t want chocolate. It gives pretzels so much more meaning. Would love to try it with the kids.
Yes, such a great combination and lots of jobs to give kids if you make it together!
Lots of sweet teeth at my house; this will work wonders!
Thank you so much Michaela!
This looks and sounds amazing!! Definitely gonna try it soon!
Thanks so much Rachel!
This looks amazing! I will definitely have to try out this recipe 🙂
Thanks so much Courtney! I hope you like it!
This Toffee Chocolate Pretzel Bark Looks amazing! My husband and I are both eat gluten free so we will definitely be trying this recipe! Thanks!
Thanks so much Crystal! We make all gluten-free recipes at our house for my husband as well. I hope you enjoy it!
My mouth is watering! This looks amazing!
Thanks so much Amanda! It is so good!
These look so good!!
Thanks so much Audrey!
I will 100% be making this!
Thanks so much. I hope you enjoy it!
These look amazing! So yummy!
Thank you so much! They are definitely delicious!
These look amazing!! Can’t wait to try them out. I love that they’re GF and DF 😍
Thanks so much! Yes, my husband is GF and DF so I’m always trying to make tasty treats for him!
You had me at chocolate. This sounds amazing.
Yes! We love chocolate. Thanks so much!
Mmmm this reminds me of the holiday season because my mom always makes some kind of chocolate bark. But who says it HAS to be just for Christmas? I wanna make some now! So delicious!
Yes, we love it at Christmas and make it for other people. But we make it year round for us!
They look delicious! Definitely going to try this recipe 🙂 X
Thanks so much Ashleigh! I hope you enjoy it!
These look so delicious. will definitely make them.
Thanks so much Teena!