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What You Need
- 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons table salt
- Kosher Salt for Topping
- 1 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon butter (melted)
- 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon plus 1/2 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 1 1/4 cups + 2 tablespoons warm water
What To Do
- Prepare yeast as instructed on the packet
- Add oil to the yeast and stir.
- In a separate bowl mix place powdered sugar, butter, flour and salt. Mix. Place yeast mixture into the dry ingredient bowl.
Flour a surface and knead the dough for about 10 minutes.
Place dough in a covered bowl ( I use plastic wrap) and let it rest for about an hour at 80 degrees. Dough should double in size.
Preheat oven at 425
Take dough and cut into 8 sections. And roll into a long rope.
Below is a video on how to make the pretzel shape.
Prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 tbsp baking soda. ( It will give the pretzel that wonderful brown color).
Dip each pretzel into the bath.
Place pretzel on to parchment paper on top of a baking sheet.
Bake for about 10 minutes or until pretzel is brown.
Blush melted butter (optional ) onto each and sprinkle salt on top.
- 3¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1½ teaspoons table salt
- Rock Salt for Topping
- 1 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon butter (melted)
- ¾ cup plus 1 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon plus ½ teaspoon active dry yeast
- 1¼ cups + 2 tablespoons warm water
- Prepare yeast as instructed on the packet
- - Add oil to the yeast and stir.
- - In a separate bowl mix place powdered sugar, butter, flour and salt. Mix. Place yeast mixture into the dry ingredient bowl.
- Flour a surface and knead the dough for about 10 minutes.
- Place dough in a covered bowl ( I use plastic wrap) and let it rest for about an hour at 80 degrees. Dough should double in size.
- Preheat oven at 425
- Take dough and cut into 8 sections. And roll into a long rope.
- Below is a video on how to make the pretzel shape.
- Prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 tbsp baking soda. ( It will give the pretzel that wonderful brown color).
- Dip each pretzel into the bath.
- Place pretzel on to parchment paper on top of a baking sheet.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until pretzel is brown.
- Blush melted butter ( additional butter ) onto each and sprinkle salt on top.
Recipe is from HERE
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How did you keep the dough at 80 degrees? My house is approximately 70 degrees and don’t know if this will affect the pretzels.
I place the bowl on the stove and turn the oven to the lowest setting and have the door slightly open… This is what I did
they are rerally good but i didmy own recipe
Rock salt is not the right salt. You want to use kosher salt. Rock salt is what you use when making ice cream or for sprinkling on the ground when it’s icy out. You don’t eat rock salt. Good recipe other than that, though.
Can the recipe be halved or can the pretzels be froze after baking?
My yeast packet doesn’t have any prep instructions… what does this usually entail? Thanks!
This sounds awesome – I think auntie anne’s literally soaks them in butter at some point. I know they do that for the little mini bites, I’ve watched them fish them out of it before!
Just made these tonight and they are amazing! Very easy to make and delicious.
I am so glad that you liked them
Hey pretzel makers! Found this to be a great recipe, very flexible. Used 1/2 c caster sugar instead of powder and worked fine. Also needed much more flour when it came time to knead, but again, they turned out fab. The skinnier I rolled them out the better. Happy baking!
I LOVE Auntie Annie’s but the malls with them are FAR and it can be expensive. I’m def. going to try this recipe out in the near future.
So true!!! But they are so good!
I buy yeast in bulk and also don’t have the instructions. Could someone please specify?
Preparing(proofing) the yeast would be adding it to the water that is 105-110 degrees. Too hot and you will kill the yeast! You will know if you killed it because it will not start growing in the water. If the water is cooler it will take longer to proof.
Hi ……the recipe leaves out the instructions for adding water to the dough…..after step 3 it says to knead your dough – and I only had dry ingredients! lol…..add 1 1/4 cup of water after step 3 or you won’t have dough!
Christina P,The water is added to the yeast thats why after step 3 you go on to step 4, without adding more water.
So I just tried doing this recipe and I don’t know what I am doing wrong. I got to the part to “In a separate bowl mix place powdered sugar, butter, flour and salt. Mix. Place yeast mixture into the dry ingredient bowl.
Flour a surface and knead the dough for about 10 minutes.”
Well, when I began to knead it, it is just all crumbly. I did everything exactly as you said. So what did I do wrong? Why is it crumbly? How did you go about doing this step?
Oh, nevermind. I see others had the same problem. Let’s see if I can fix it now
Made these just now. OMG so delicious. Added cinnimon sugar to some too, to die for!
In the process of making them…Thinking its going to be a winner! This is the first pinterest recipe that I actually was inspired to make immediately! lol
Ok they are done… here’s what I learned:
1. Parchment paper is NOT wax paper.
my oven started smoking 2 min into baking them. Thank God I was on the phone with my mom who explained the difference to me lol.
2. ugly pretzels still taste yummy!
Even though they look nothing like auntie anne’s pretzels, they taste HEAVENLY!
Thank you so much! Can’t wait to actually do it again …minus the wax paper.
Oh my I did the same exact thing with the wax paper! I was so lost as to why my oven was smoking but the pretzels looked fine! I finally realized what was the problem and fixed it! Glad I’m not the only one
HA! Me too!!!
Tasted delicious and looked great until i had to cut them off the parchment paper. I couldn’t even peel the paper off
what did i do wrong?
Also, I added some water after mixing wet with dry….just added a little at a time until I had a nice sticky dough. If they didn’t stick so bad, they would have been perfect!
I like the pretzel bites. Could I just roll them into long ropes and cut them into small pieces before baking?
Yep
Have you tried these with gluten free flour?
Has anyone tried these with whole wheat flour? I’m a bit of a nazi about having white flour around, but I know whole wheat makes things heavier. I’d like to attempt with honey as a sweeter as well (I keep bees). Maybe I should just make them and find out. Sheesh. I’ll let you know
You can use Rhodes rolls or bread dough to make homemade pretzels as well. You do everything you would do with the dough except for making the dough from scratch.
ok, just got done making these pretzels. WONDERFUL!!!!!!! Thanks to everyone who commented on wax paper. I was going to use it. These taste just like Auntie Annes. The only thing I would do next time (And there will be a next time) is make them 1/2 the size. These were the size you buy….HUGE. So I could get 16 out of this. EXCELLENT THANKS SOOOOO MUCH!!!!! Everyone should try this recipe. You will be glad that you did, I promise you!!!
OH, MY WORD!!!! Anyone who is thinking of making these, do it NOW! I found this recipe today (thank you, Pinterest) and just couldn’t dare put it in my “someday…” file. It was a must-do-right-away, and I say the same for everyone.
They were lovely. My only problems were not being able to get a good rise in my small cold apartment (yet the texture of the finished product was still perfect), and not being able to roll it into a thin rope. I’d roll it out to 2 1/2′ and right away it’d snap back to about 18″. Anyone know why my rope kept springing back? Did I knead it too much? Not enough? Like I mentioned, the texture and everything was great.
Thank you so much! I always love finding a new recipe to put in my little black book.
I never have any luck with active dry yeast. What alterations should I make to the recipe if I use instant yeast instead? Anyone have any suggestions?
Has anyone omitted the parchment paper? I don’t have any and don’t want to go to the store. Also I just added the yeast and the called for water. And then the oil. I have never used yeast before and had no idea what to do. My yeast jar said something about adding a teaspoon of sugar and let sit for 10mins to see if the yeast was active? I just skipped that part. Hope they turn out! Fingers crossed!!
They turned out YUMMY!! And my 3 yr. old who never eats anything ate about 4 of these!! Thanks for sharing!!
Just as a tip, sprinkle the sea salt onto the pretzels after the baking soda wash and BEFORE you bake them. Then the salt will stick to them rather than falling off of your precions pretzels. How do I know? I may or may not have worked at a pretzel shop for more than a year…
It sounds like you are doing it right
You add the rest of the water when you are adding the dry and wet ingredients together
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