Caramel Pretzels (Mini Butter Toffee Pretzels) Recipe - The Cookie Rookie® (2024)

FAQs

Are Trader Joe's butter toffee pretzels seasonal? ›

Trader Joe's Butter Toffee Pretzels and Butter Toffee coated Virginia Peanuts are seasonal items. The pretzels are $2.99 for a 10-ounce bag and the peanuts are $3.99 for a 12-ounce container.

Traditional Bavarian pretzels are dipped in a lye solution before they are baked. Lye, also known as sodium hydroxide, is essentially the same stuff that's used to make soap and clean drains. It can even dissolve glass.

When it comes to third-party sellers, please know that there are no authorized online sales of Trader Joe's products. We only sell our products in our stores, so if you see TJ's products for sale online, you'll know right away that you're not buying from Trader Joe's.

When does cookie butter expire? Unopened cookie butter can last up to a year in your pantry, so long as it is stored in a cool, dry place. Once you crack the jar open, cookie butter is generally good for about two to three months.

Over time, the pretzel became a staple and an integral part of Pennsylvania's culture and economy. The state is now known as the pretzel capital of the world, with Pennsylvanians consuming a whopping 12 times more pretzels than the national average.

But it's the distinctive "pretzel" flavor that makes this bread extraordinary. That comes from dipping the shaped dough in an alkaline solution — traditionally a small amount of food-grade lye dissolved in water — before baking.

Pretzels may be better than some fatty chips, but four out of five nutrition experts surveyed by Time say if you're trying to eat healthy, pretzels shouldn't be your go-to snack. Although pretzels are low-fat, they are also pretty paltry on the protein and fiber front, and they can be quite high in sodium and carbs.

Churros, soft pretzels, and icees are seasonal delicacies.

I tried the seasonal foods at Trader Joe's for the spring and reviewed them. The coffee-creme Joe-Joe's and Meyer-lemon cookies were both delicious and adorable. The chain's cheese-filled fiocchetti and taco-salad kit are both good entrée options.

Although the Europeans may have introduced the soft pretzel to America's shores, the hard pretzel is reputedly a homegrown Pennsylvanian creation. Hard pretzels were “invented” when an apprentice in a Pennsylvania bakery accidentally fell asleep, over-baking a batch of pretzels.

When did peanut butter pretzels come out? ›

The simplicity of the peanut butter-filled pretzel belies its pained and complex origins. The technology to make it didn't even exist until the 1980s. Kroll was running food distributor Maxim in La Verne in the mid-1980s when a business contact told him that a New Jersey pretzel manufacturer, J.