This no cook Christmas crack with pretzels is like a crunchy cookie dough bark, or a chocolate crack with pretzels. It's a healthy gluten free and dairy free easy recipe, the perfect treat for your holiday dessert collection!
This easy Christmas Crack with pretzels has a creamy and crunchy cookie dough base, with a snappy chocolate top and pretty green and red sprinkles. The ingredients for this chocolate crack with pretzels are few and wholesome with no protein powder, no butter, no cooking and high in protein. Just mix, chill and snap into pieces to serve - just like cookie dough bark!
If you like this healthy Christmas Crack with pretzels, you'll also love my chocolate chip cookie dough bark, my pumpkin cookie dough bark, and my chocolate brownie bark.
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What is Christmas Crack?
Christmas crack is a simple holiday treat traditionally made of crackers, boiled caramel and chocolate. My healthy version has the chocolate top like bark, but uses pretzels instead of crackers, and a creamy no bake chocolate chip cookie dough. My Christmas Crack with pretzels is dairy free, gluten free and refined sugar free.
Ingredients
Oat flour. You can use almond flour instead but the Christmas crack will be less snappy because almond flour has more fat.
Peanut butter. I also use almond butter, the healthy kind with only nuts in the ingredients.
Maple syrup. Or any liquid sweetener.
Pretzels. Some crushed, some to layer. Use a dairy free, gluten free brand to keep the crack healthier. Make sure your pretzels are fresh and crispy, not stale or you won't get a 'crack'.
Baking soda, vanilla extract, salt. For flavoring.
Chocolate chips. Both to mix into the dough, and to melt for the chocolate shell on top.
See the recipe card at the bottom for full information on ingredients and quantities.
Steps to Make Christmas Crack
For more detail, visit the complete recipe at the bottom of this post, but here are general steps.
Prep: Crush the pretzels in a bowl - use a glass, bowl or even roll them in a storage bag.
Step 1: In a bowl, add all Christmas crack ingredients except chocolate chips.
Step 2: Mix the batter with a spoon and fold in chocolate chips.
Step 3: Press the batter into a parchment-lined pan.
Step 4: Smooth with a glass or spoon. Cover with parchment paper to help smooth it.
Step 5: Melt the chocolate chips, and spread over the pressed dough.
Step 6: Sprinkle top with broken pretzels. Chill in freezer for 15 minutes or long enough to snap apart.
Storage
Store leftovers in the refrigerator for a week or frozen for about 3 months.
Recipe Tips
To make oat flour, blend rolled oats dry in your blender, or you can buy oat flour.
Baking soda is there for flavor, not to help it rise because this recipe is no bake. The baking soda helps give the cookie dough base a raw cookie dough flavor.
Variations
This Christmas Crack is extremely easy to customize.
- Swap pretzels for nuts or granola.
- Swap the chocolate top with melted white chocolate instead.
- Vary the sprinkles or use dried fruit.
- Add a layer of date paste between the cookie dough base, pretzels and melted chocolate top.
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FAQS
Yes, you can use honey or your favorite liquid sweetener such as date syrup or monk syrup. You can also use homemade date paste. Sugar might work, but the dough may need a few tablespoons of water to achieve a putty texture.
Yes, this healthy Christmas crack is plant-based, gluten-free, dairy-free and has no refined sugar if you use compliant chocolate chips.
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📖 Recipe
Christmas Crack with Pretzels
Equipment
- baking sheet
Ingredients
Edible cookie dough chips
- ½ cup oat flour
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 3 tablespoon maple syrup
- ½ cup pretzels, crushed
- ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
Chocolate layer
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
Pretzel topping
- ⅓ cup pretzels, small or whole
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Instructions
Prep
- Crush pretzels for the base by using a bowl or cup or even crushing them in a storage bag.
Make crack with pretzels
- In a bowl, mix up the crack base ingredients.½ cup oat flour, ¼ cup peanut butter, 3 tablespoon maple syrup, ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Press the batter into a parchment-lined pan. Smooth with a glass or spoon. Layer with parchment paper to assist in pressing.
- Melt the chocolate chips and coconut oil in the microwave for 1 minutes. Spread over the pretzel dough.
- Layer pretzels over the cookie dough.
- Chill in freezer for 30 minutes or long enough to snap apart.1 cup chocolate chips
Dee Dine
This no cook Christmas crack with pretzels is crunchy and creamy, and kind of like a cookie dough bark with pretzels.