Disney Tsum Tsum Pretzel Snacks

Since I love all things cute and tiny - I am a huge fan of Tsum Tsums!

What's a Tsum Tsum you ask? They are cute plush versions of your favorite Disney characters that can be stacked.  They were originally created for Disney Japan since Japan loves all that is cute and tiny as well - but the craze has caught on all over the world.  The name comes from a Japanese term for stack and you pronounce it "soom soom" 

Aren't they the cutest? I am trying to get my kids to collect but they are not as interested as I would have been at that age! My daughter also has this super cute Tsum Tsum t-shirt...

So I was inspired to make them in pretzel snack form!

They actually came together pretty quickly since the base is a square pretzel topped with discs of candy melt circles.  Details are added with other candies, sprinkles, more melted candy melt, and edible food writers.

You can mix and match your favorite characters.  They pretty much all come in Tsum Tsum form these days and not just plushies either - there are plastic or vinyl figures, games, and all kinds of other trinkets, clothes, and stuff plastered with Tsumy cuteness.

My favs are still Mickey and Minnie and Donald and Daisy

But Pooh and his friends come in a close 2nd!

Do you love Tsum Tsums? Which are your favs?? 

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

Disney Tsum Tsum Pretzel Snacks

by Michelle Clausen May 20 - 2017

Ingredients

• Pretzel squares
• Various color candy melt wafers (plus extra for melting to attach to pretzel and adding details)
• Various candy and sprinkles (m and m's, candy coated sunflower seeds, heart shaped sprinkles, various colors of non-pariels)
• Black edible food marker

Instructions:

1. Melt wafers in a microwave safe bowl and add to a freezer bag.  Snip an end and attach wafer to pretzel square.  Eeyore is made with purple disc and part cream colored disc.
2. Use more melted candy in coordinated colors to attach other candy/sprinkles as the detail.  Follow pictures for directions.
3. Add additional detail with edible food writers.

Prep time: 45 minutes Yield: about 24 pretzel snacks

Beauty & The Beast Decorated Pretzel Squares

Are you guys as excited as I am for the new Beauty and the Beast movie opening on March 17th??

Belle has been my daughter's fav princess since she was tiny so we are totally making it a girl's nite out to see the movie.  So fun.

And although I love that Emma Watson (aka Hermione Granger) is Belle, I'm really excited to hear some of my favs as the infamous furniture and stuff in Beast's castle.  In case you hadn't heard, the voice line-up is pretty sweet:

Ian McKellen is Cogsworth the Clock

Emma Thompson is Mrs. Potts the teapot

Ewan McGregor is Lumiere the candlestick

Stanley Tucci is Forte the piano

And some of the other peeps are neat too:

Kevin Kline is Maurice (Belle's dad)

Josh Gad is LaFou (Gaston's lackey - he was also Frozen's Olaf!)

So in prep for the movie I made some pretzels decorated as Belle, Beast, and their time sensitive rose.

In general they are pretty easy to make.  I have a ton of candy melts in various colors and sprinkles hanging around the house so it was easy to pull these together on a Friday nite.

You could make your own little candy roses in place of these cereal roses, but I just happened to have some Moana cereal in the house (the cereal marketers get me every time!) so it worked out well.  Spray them with some edible food spray and you have some quick roses that actually are pretty tasty on pretzels snacks.

My kiddos love sweet and salty so decorated pretzel snacks are an easy win for me (see below I've made them a bunch of times).  

Plus that kinda represents Belle and the Beast to me with the sweet and salty theme - although not sure anyone would call the Beast "salty" - let's just go with opposites then!

I may have to save a few and smuggle them into the theater opening weekend when we go see it.  Can't wait!

Beauty and The Beast Movie Pretzel Snacks

by Michelle Clausen March 5 - 2017

Ingredients

• 36 pretzel squares
• 12 white or egg nog candy wafers
• 12 chocolate candy wafers
• 1 cup of white candy wafers
• 1/4 cup extra chocolate candy wafers
• 1/4 cup dark blue candy wafers
• 1/2 cup yellow candy wafers
• 1/4 cup tan candy wafers (or use white and add 1/2 chocolate disc to make tan)
• 36 chocolate candy coated sunflower seeds
• 24 blue confetti sprinkles
• 36 yellow pearl large non-pareil sprinkles
• white mini non-pareil sprinkles
• 12 mini heart shaped sprinkles
• Black edible food marker
• Green licorice candy laces
• Red color spray
• 12 cereal shaped like rose (found using Moana cereal)

Instructions:

For Belle:

1. Melt yellow wafers in a microwave safe bowl and add to a freezer bag.  Snip an end and pipe to cover pretzel square.  
2. Sprinkle with white non-pareils and add white or egg nog wafer to center.
3. Melt chocolate wafers in a microwave safe bowl and add to a freezer bag.  Snip an end and pipe Belle's hair.  While still wet add yellow pearl non-pareils to hair.  
4. Add 2 black eyes with edible food marker.
5. Add heart sprinkle as mouth (attach with white melted candy).

For Beast:

1. Melt blue wafers in a microwave safe bowl and add to a freezer bag.  Snip an end and pipe to cover pretzel square.  
2. Add chocolate wafer to center. 
3. Outline edge with yellow melted candy (use same bag as Belle - if needed reheat candy for 5-10 second intervals until re-melted).
4. Melt tan wafers in a microwave safe bowl and add to a freezer bag.  Snip an end and pipe Beast's mane and fur.  
5. Add candy coated sunflower seeds as horns and nose.
6. Attach blue confetti sprinkles as eyes.
7. Pipe teeth with melted white candy.

For Rose Flowers:

1. Cut 3 small pieces of green licorice strings for rose stems and leaves.
2. Spray cereal shapes with red color spray.  Let dry 10 minutes.
3. Melt white wafers in a microwave safe bowl and add to a freezer bag.  Snip an end and pipe to cover pretzel square.  
4. Add green licorice in shape of stem/leaves.  Add tinted cereal as rose.

Prep time: 60-90 minutes Yield: about 36 pretzel snacks

You may like to other decorated sweet and salty pretzel snacks too!

Minions

Little Jelly Bean Birds

Frozen Friends

Mickey Mouse and Friends

USA Flags

Super Man and Wonder Woman

Football Team Colors

Christmas Ornaments