Pretzel Crispies
- Serves
- a dozen
- Prep Time
- 20 Minutes
"Hide these from yourself, your significant other, your children, your neighbors, and the general world, because they’re horrifying. We were having a riff in the restaurant, and we decided to come up with the most mega-stoner snack imaginable. How do you make a one-stop shop of sweet, salty, crunchy, sticky, and chewy? That’s Rice Krispies, but then you also need savory. I thought: What can you break down to the size of Rice Krispies and cook similarly? Pretzels won out. Eat the whole tray in your underwear watching Netflix, or lying on the deck of a boat as it rolls on its anchors, watching stars shoot across the nighttime sky. There’s no culinary genius behind it. Pretzels, butter, and marshmallows, baby. That’s it."—Scott Clark
Ingredients
- Pan spray, if needed
- 1 pound [455 g] thin salted pretzels
- 1 cup [226 g] unsalted butter
- 12 ounce [340 g] marshmallows
- Pinch of kosher salt
Featured Video
Excerpted from Coastal: 130 Recipes from a California Road Trip by Scott Clark with Betsy Andrews, © 2025. Published by Chronicle Books. Photographs © Cheyenne Ellis.
Directions
- Step 1
Line a sheet pan with a silicone mat or parchment paper; if using parchment, lightly coat it with pan spray.
- Step 2
Working in batches as needed, in a food processor, pulse the pretzels ten to twenty times until they’re crumbs with a few larger chunks, wabi-sabi style.
- Step 3
In a medium Dutch oven over medium-high heat, melt the butter. When it stops frothing, knock the heat down to medium, add the marshmallows, and stir with a rubber spatula until they’re melted, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the pretzels and stir until they’re well coated. Spread the mixture on the prepared sheet pan. Lay another silicone mat or another piece of parchment coated with pan spray upside down on top of the crispies and use a rolling pin to roll it out to about ¹⁄⁸ in [3 mm] thick. Peel the parchment off the top, finish it with a pinch of salt, and let it cool before slicing and eating it, or just scarf it up warm from the pan.
- Step 4
Notes: No food processor? Stab a couple holes in the pretzel bag to deflate it and pound the heck out of it with your fists. No rolling pin? Use the pan spray can as a rolling pin, or just push it toward the edges with your fingers.