This didn't work for me - never thinned out enough and started to ball - I used shortning. I need to find a microwave recipe I used a year ago - it was perfect. for now, the choc's in a ball on the counter waiting for a new recipe.

I first melted the chocolate on it's own and slowly added the whipping cream. The chocolate had a great consistency until I put in the cream and then it turned into a hard lump. It wouldn't even stick to my finger, let alone a pretzel. I added A LOT of butter and finally was able to get it to a dipping consistancy, bu tit still had lumps. Skip the whipping cream and just use butter or shortening. Also, if you are like me and read the reviews after trying the recipe and have your own chocolate lump, I crushed up some pretzels and peanuts and squished them into little chocolate lumps. The result did not look pretty but they tasted just as good as my end product. I also tried this recipe with white chocolate and ended up with a mess. I couldn't save that one.

Followed Norma Jean on this & mixed milk choco chips & white choco chips along with a tiny bit of vegetable oil in a double boiler. Was very easy & kids loved it.

the whipping cream made the chocolate hard to work with. Didn't like the recipe sorry.

I like this treat...but this recipe seems a little too complicated. Have any of you ever tried Candiquik? It comes in chocoalte and vanilla and it is SO easy to use. Pop it in your microwave for a minute, stir, and use to cover pretzels, fruit, make barks, etc. Love it!

this is a horrible recipe. as soon as the whipping cream hit the chocolate, the chocolate seized. the one reviewer was right when she said you could brick your house. i wasted 4 cups of chocolate on this. i tried it twice.

I have not made this recipe BUT i do make chocolate covered pretzels - the trick is to use CHOCOLATE BARK COATING. It adheres to the pretzels VERY well (better than chips and cream). I melt the chocolate bark over a double boiler so it doesn't burn and then dip the pretzel rod or round in the chocolate, lay them all on wax paper and put in freezer. Then after hard, I redip again, roll in crushed candy (peanuts, sprinkles, M&Ms, rieces peanuts, or drizzle melted white chocolate) and freeze until hard again. DELICIOUS and beautiful.

Had the same problems with the chocolate not thin enough. After I stored them in a tin canister the pretzles became soft and moist.

The whipping cream ruins the chocolate. Do not follow it unless you want hard chocolate!

This recipe is misleading. You should NOT use the whipping cream unless you want to brick your house!!!! I've tried it 3 TIMES and still it gets toooooo thick!! Please follow the recipe but omit the cream. I do not know what the writer was thinking when putting this recipe together???????????????????????/

I ended up trading the whipping cream for white chocolate chips and it worked better for me. I melted semi-sweet chocolate squares and white chocolate chips in my double broiler. I dipped pretzel sticks instead of the traditional pretzels. Made 100s of these for cookie trays and it was a lot of work but got lots of compliments...

I followed the recipe for ingredients and it worked well. However, I melted the chocolate in a fondue pot and dipped pretzel rods broken in half. It was easy and fast.

this is the most inaccurate recipe i've ever made. it takes much more than 1 T. of cream.

I found that this recipe did need a bit more whipping cream than called for-I just added a little at a time until it was the desired consistancy. It worked great otherwise.

I have not tryied this recipe but it is not the easiest way to make chocolate covered pretzels....save your cream and chocolate chips....heat 1 pkg of chocolate bark in a double boiler dip pretzels let set on wax paper and enjoy.

I used 1 1/2 bags of milk chocolate chips that I melted in a double boiler over medium heat. This was enough to cover half of each pretzel in a 200g bag. The chocolate melted quickly without chunks and the pretzels dipped perfectly. (skip the cream!)

This did not work. The chocolate turned into a big, unusable lump. We tried adding shortening but it didn't help. We added some wax and it turned out ok, but by then the chocolate was gritty. I'll try something else.

Well, after I tried to add more whipping cream, it just became more like a ganache, so I started adding milk, and then the chocolate turned out ok. But the recipe was a waste.