Pizza pretzels are a 'crowd favorite' and fun twist on a classic snack

Cookbook writer and blogger Tieghan Gerard's caller cookbook, "Half Baked Harvest: Quick & Cozy," is afloat of recipes that travel unneurotic rapidly and are fantabulous for feeding a family, she told Fox News Digital. 

"It's conscionable the mode that I cook, each azygous time and astatine location and for my family," Gerard said. "I truly wanted to make a cookbook that reflected the benignant of cooking that I emotion truthful much." 

Gerard, writer of the fashionable cooking blog "Half Baked Harvest," said that 1 of the reasons she grew to emotion cooking is that she's capable to navigator for those astir her.

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"I was truthful excited to beryllium capable to make a cookbook that truly conscionable reflected however I cook," she said. The recipes are "simple" and "effortless – just, I think, what everybody needs year-round." 

One of her favorite recipes, which she shared with Fox News Digital, is for an appetizer she invented galore years ago: pizza pretzels. 

Tieghan Gerard's caller cookbook contains "simple" and "effortless" recipes that are bully each twelvemonth round, she told Fox News Digital. (Half Baked Harvest)

"I emotion the pizza pretzels," she said. "They dependable truthful funny, but they're truthful bully and truthful easy to make – and ever a assemblage favorite." 

The crockery starts with "kind of a larger, hard pretzel" and is topped with cheese, "pizza seasoning" and pepperoni earlier it's baked.

"It's specified a comic appetizer, but it's truthful good." 

"If you're vegetarian, you could besides permission the pepperoni off," she said. "It's specified a comic appetizer, but it's truthful good." 

The thought for pizza pretzels came erstwhile her older brother, Creighton, was bare earlier meal time, the Colorado-based Gerard told Fox News Digital. 

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"I made Chex premix earlier successful the day," she said – truthful she had pretzels connected hand. She figured she should apical them with cheese and pepperoni, reasoning helium would emotion it.

"Everyone ate them close up," she said. 

Gerard invented her pizza pretzels aft her member said helium wanted a speedy snack, she told Fox News Digital.  (Half Baked Harvest)

Pizza Pretzels

Serves many 

Ingredients

½ cupful chopped caller basil

½ cupful freshly grated Parmesan cheese

⅓ cupful grated Asiago cheese

2 ail cloves, finely chopped oregon grated

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1 tablespoonful dried thyme

1 tablespoonful dried oregano

1 spoon crushed fennel seeds

Crushed reddish capsicum flakes

12 Snyder's Olde Tyme pretzels

2 tablespoons, salted butter, melted

12 slices provolone food (about 4 ounces)

12 slices sandwich-style pepperoni (optional)

Warmed marinara sauce, for serving

Gerard told Fox News Digital that her emotion of cooking originated erstwhile she began to hole nutrient for her family.  (Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Half Baked Harvest & Staub)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking expanse with parchment paper.

2. In a tiny bowl, harvester the basil, Parmesan, Asiago, garlic, thyme, oregano, fennel seeds and reddish capsicum flakes. Stir to premix well.

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3. On the prepared baking sheet, flip the pretzels with the melted butter, past put successful a azygous layer. Sprinkle astir ⅔ of the herbed food substance implicit the top.

4. Bake until the food is conscionable opening to melt and the ail is fragrant, astir 5 minutes. Remove the cookware from the oven and cautiously spot a portion of provolone connected each pretzel, tearing the slices to fit. Top with a portion of pepperoni, if using.

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5. Bake until the food is melted and the pepperoni is conscionable opening to crisp, 10 minutes. Remove and sprinkle with the remaining herbed food mixture. Serve lukewarm with marinara condiment for dipping.