Auntie Annes Almond Pretzel Recipes

AUNTIE ANNE'S PRETZELS - COPYCAT

Steps:

• 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 oven at 450 for about 10 minutes or until golden.
• Brush with melted butter.
• 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.
• Notes: The longer and thinner you can make the dough rope, the more like Auntie Anne's they will be.

AUNTIE ANNES PRETZELS

Steps:

• Combine the 1/2 tsp brown sugar, touch of salt, 1 1/2 tsp yeast, and 1 1/2 cups water together.
• Leave it sit for 5 minutes.
• Now add the 4 cups of bread flour and knead well. Then let it rise for an hour.
• Preheat your oven to 425 degrees (F).
• In a separate bowl, combine the 2 teaspoons of baking soda and 2 cups of warm water.
• Take a chunk of the dough and make it into the shape of a pretzel, then dunk the dough in the baking soda water, and set it on a greased cookie sheet.
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• To make the pretzel shape, roll the chunk into one long strand and hold the two ends and put them together to make a circle. Twist it once and lay it down. Try it a couple times and you'll get it.
• Leave in oven at 425 degrees (F) for 12 minutes.
• In a small bowl melt your butter (by putting the butter on the stove or microwave) and mix the butter with the 2 tablespoons of honey. When the pretzel is done it the oven, take it out. Let it cool for a minute and brush some of the butter/honey over the warm pretzel.