Flower Pretzels

Welcome springtime with these fun spring Flower Pretzel Bites! With only 3 ingredients, they are the perfect treat to make with your kids. They are a perfect sweet and salty treat that are bright and cheerful. A great treat for Easter, welcoming spring or Mother’s Day plus the pastel M&M flowers are so cute!

I love a dessert recipe that is simple, pretty, and tasty! These flower pretzels are the perfect addition to any Easter dessert table, as a gift for kids to make for their mom for Mother’s Day, or just as a fun sweet treat. I especially love that I can easily make many different colors of flowers since there’s plenty of colors of M&M’s.

These M&M pretzel bites are a go-to easy recipe of mine. I love that they take just a few minutes to throw together. Perfect for any last minute “Oops! I forgot I’m bringing the dessert” moments! These Easter pretzels are also a great treat for your kids to help you make and bring to their school classrooms for Easter.

If you want more flower themed desserts to fill a pretty dessert table, make these sunflower cupcakes too!

Why You’ll Love these Flower Pretzels

• These spring flower pretzel bites are very simple and only have 3 ingredients.
• This easy spring dessert only takes about 12 minutes to make!
• Your kids will love helping place the M&M’s in a flower shape and working with small objects helps refine fine motor skills.

Ingredients for Flower Pretzels

• Pretzels – Be sure you get the rectangle shaped pretzels (or mini pretzel twists) so you have plenty of surface area to make the flowers!
• Easter M&M’s – You can find these on the seasonal aisle in your grocery store. If you’re not able to find them, regular M&M’s will work fine, your flowers just won’t be super “springy”.
• White Candy Melts – White candy melts works easiest in this recipe, but if you can’t find them you could use white chocolate chips.

Helpful Tools

• Baking Sheet
• Parchment Paper

How to Make M&M Pretzel Bites

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and evenly space pretzels in a single layer on the baking sheet.

Place one candy wafer melt on top of each pretzel. Pop them in the oven at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for 2 minutes, just until the candy is slightly melted.

Place one color of Easter M&M in the center of your pretzel, this is the pistil. And then place six more M&M’s or a different color around it to create the flower petals!

Allow the pretzels to set for about 30 minutes at room temperature, serve on your favorite platter and enjoy!

How long do Flower Pretzels last?

You can store your salty and sweet flower pretzels in an airtight container at room temperature for 7 days. If you want them to last a little longer, you can freeze them. Just leave the M and M pretzel flowers out for an hour or so to thaw before enjoying them.

Pro Tips for the best Flower Pretzels

• Be sure to work quickly while decorating these spring flower pretzel bites so that the candy does not set before you place the M&M petals. If you are making these by yourself, work in batches and melt the candy 8-10 pretzels at a time.
• Don’t overheat the candy melts! You want them to be just softened, not melted enough that they are dripping through the pretzel.
• Separate your M&M’s by color into separate bowls before you decorate so you can easily find the color you are looking for.

April showers bring May flowers…and your kitchen can bring flower pretzels! This homemade Easter candy will be a new favorite in no time so make sure you make a double batch and enlist the kids to help!

More Spring Recipes and Activities You’ll Love

• These Spring Sugar Cookies are delicious and fun to make!
• I love making these Coffee Filter Butterflies around springtime.
• This Easter Egg Watercolor Painting is the perfect, simple Easter activity.
• Need a really quick Easter activity? Download these Easter Secret Messages!