Aunt Annie's Soft Pretzels (Copycat)
Makes 12 pretzels
Ingredients:
For the dough:
1 1/2 cup warm water
1 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast (half a packet)
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup bread flour
3 cups regular flour
For the water bath:
2 cups Warm water
2 tablespoons baking soda
Toppings
4 T melted butter
coarse salt
cinnamon mixed with sugar
Directions:
Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve. Add sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic. Let rise at least 1/2 hour ( I left it alone for an hour and didn't see any rising).
While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 Tbsp baking soda. Be certain to stir often. After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope (about 1/2 inch or less thick), twist and shape. Dip pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet. Re-shape if necessary. Allow pretzels to rise again. Bake in 450 oven for about 10 minutes or until golden. Brush with melted butter and enjoy!
Toppings: after you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt. or for Auntie Anne's famous Cinnamon Sugar.
Lee
Ready for the oven
Out of the oven, brushed with melted butter and some topped with salt, some with cinnamon sugar
Salted ones are my favorites!
Makes 12 pretzels
Ingredients:
For the dough:
1 1/2 cup warm water
1 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast (half a packet)
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup bread flour
3 cups regular flour
For the water bath:
2 cups Warm water
2 tablespoons baking soda
Toppings
4 T melted butter
coarse salt
cinnamon mixed with sugar
Directions:
Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve. Add sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic. Let rise at least 1/2 hour ( I left it alone for an hour and didn't see any rising).
While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 Tbsp baking soda. Be certain to stir often. After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope (about 1/2 inch or less thick), twist and shape. Dip pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet. Re-shape if necessary. Allow pretzels to rise again. Bake in 450 oven for about 10 minutes or until golden. Brush with melted butter and enjoy!
Toppings: after you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt. or for Auntie Anne's famous Cinnamon Sugar.
Lee
![pretzelsbefore.jpg](http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9964/pretzelsbefore.jpg)
Ready for the oven
![pretzelscooked.jpg](http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2757/pretzelscooked.jpg)
Out of the oven, brushed with melted butter and some topped with salt, some with cinnamon sugar
![pretzelscloseup.jpg](http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3443/pretzelscloseup.jpg)
Salted ones are my favorites!