Aunt Annie's Soft Pretzels

By KimberlyB

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup warm water
• 1 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup bread flour
• 3 cups regular flour
• 2 cups warm water
• 2 tablespoons baking soda
• to taste coarse salt
• 4 tablespoons butter (melted)

Details

Servings 12
Preparation time 40mins
Cooking time 10mins

Preparation

Step 1

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.

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) and shape. Dip pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet. Allow pretzels to rise again. Bake in 450 degrees F 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, try melting a stick of butter in a shallow bowl (big enough to fit the entire pretzel) and in another shallow bowl make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Dip the pretzel into the butter, coating both sides generously. Then dip again into the cinnamon mixture. Enjoy!

* The longer and thinner you can make the dough rope, the more like Auntie Anne's they will be. (Of course I don't have the counter space!)

*Sweet butter, not regular butter, is one of her secrets!




NUTRITION:
196 calories, 4 grams fat, 34 grams carbohydrates, 5 grams protein per serving. This recipe is low in fat.
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