Copy Cat Recipe – Auntie Anne’s Pretzels

  Ingredients:

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

Directions:

1. Prepare yeast as instructed on the packet
2. - Add oil to the yeast and stir.
3. - In a separate bowl mix place powdered sugar, butter, flour and salt. Mix. Place yeast mixture into the dry ingredient bowl.
4. Flour a surface and knead the dough for about 10 minutes.
5. 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.
6. Preheat oven at 425
7. Take dough and cut into 8 sections. And roll into a long rope.
8. Below is a video on how to make the pretzel shape.
9. 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).
10. Dip each pretzel into the bath.
11. Place pretzel on to parchment paper on top of a baking sheet.
12. Bake for about 10 minutes or until pretzel is brown.
13. Brush melted butter ( additional butter ) onto each and sprinkle salt on top

Serves: 8

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