Cacao bretzel ( pretzel ) with glaze.

Hello fellow cooking enthusiasts today i am gonna share a cacao pretzel with glaze recipe, taken again from my book of recipes,picture is again taken from the net, but its very similar to the one in the book. 
Okey so lets start.

Ingredients:
300gr flour
2 table spoon natural cacao
1 tea spoon baking powder
1/2 tea spoon salt
180gr soft butter
200gr sugar
1 large egg
1/2 almond essence 
50gr good grounded almonds
125gr white chocolate broken in large pieces


How to make:

   1.   Mix in averaged sized bowl the flour, cacao, baking powder and salt.
   2 .  In  large bowl mix the butter and the sugar with a mixer on high speed until the mix is white and fluffy.
   3.   Add the egg and the almond essence  and mix with the mixer on slow just for a bit until the ingredients mix together.
   4.   Now with the mixer still set on low add the flour mix and the almonds to the rest of the ingredients.
   5.   You should have a nice dough by now, which you will separate in two balls. Flatten then slightly and wrap them in cooking wrap after that put them in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
   6.   Preheat a oven to 180C degree or set it on 4 if its a gas one.
   7.   Butter up two shallow baking pans.
   8.   Take out the dough and form it to small ball with 4cm in diameter, then  roll the dough in a wick/fuse like form that should be 30cm long.
   9.   Form every wick/fuse in a pretzel/bretzel form.
   10. Bake for 10-12 minute or until they hard to the touch.
   11. Take out the pretzels and let them cool down for 5 minutes. Then take them out of the baking pans and arrange them on a metal grill to cool down completely.
   12. Take the chocolate and melt the usual way. ( In water bath)
   13. Cover the pretzels with it like in the picture. Let the pretzel cool down for 30 min. This will also allow the chocolate to harden. Under no condition put the pretzel in a refrigerator to cool down! Even if the weather is too hot for the chocolate to harden.


You should get around 22 pretzels.
Time to make: 40 minutes + 1 hour waiting time.
Difficulty: 2