I was making "pretzel wands" for my daughter's Christmas party at school last
night and run into a minor problem.

It called for melting chocolate chips and dipping the pretzel rods in them,
then chilling until firm. That part was fine.

Then I had to melt white chocolate, add a touch of food coloring, and dip the
rods part way into the melted white chocolate.

I tried numerous times, and each time I added the food coloring, the white
chocolate stiffened right up and I couldn't dip the pretzels without actually
pasting the white chocolate onto them. The chocolate was fine until I added
the food coloring. I tried adding it while still over heat (which is what the
recipe said to do), tried adding it off of the burner, and tried both white
chocolate chips and actual cooking squares.

It's not *necessary* to die the white chocolate, of course, but it kind of
ruins the Christmas theme if I don't. I'd like to make them again next week-
they were really yummy- so any idea what went wrong?

laurie