With pretzels baked into the crust, this milk chocolate pretzel tart has a silky, rich filling for an elegant dessert that’s salty and sweet.
As my toddler’s eating has gotten pickier, it’s become clear that he inherited my snack food gene. Now instead of eating the veggies on his plate, he carbs out on pita chips and crackers.
Should I blame myself? Nope! I have to think glass half-full on this one and say that my son has good taste.
I probably should be embarrassed that he’s been known to request pretzels for breakfast, when a normal person wouldn’t touch those salty nibbles until at least lunch.
There’s no way I can be the only parent with a limited threshold for forcing healthy eating on my offspring.
As a child, I was hooked on white rice, and the extent of my vegetable consumption was raw carrot sticks.
Now I am a proud lover of all veggies. There are so many other parenting worries that I’m just going to assume his culinary tastes will grow…eventually.
We don’t make a big deal out of Valentine’s Day. I just like to use it as a reason to bake a special treat for us to enjoy together.
It had to be chocolate because it is a favorite at our house, and then I used my son’s snack of choice–pretzels, of course.
With its extra crunchy crust, this milk chocolate pretzel tart was equal parts salty and sweet.
Crushed pretzels act as the majority of the flour in the crust. Confectioners’ sugar helps to sweeten it.
The filling is a rich ganache, a combination of milk chocolate and heavy cream.
I decorate the top of the tart with the few remaining broken pretzels and flaky sea salt.
Each slice was wonderfully rich, so I only let my little guy have a few bites. I don’t need to encourage the sweet tooth that I passed on to him.
He needs no help from me in that department.
PrintWith pretzels baked into the crust, this milk chocolate pretzel tart has a silky, rich filling for an elegant dessert that’s salty and sweet.
Adapted from Food & Wine February 2009
This sounds like salty sweet heaven! Love the pretzel crust 🙂
that looks good we can bake that one day
it’s like chocolate dipped pretzels, but in fancy tart/dessert form! love it!
Yes! It is sooooo good!!!