# COPYCAT Giant Soft Pretzels

This recipe guides you through making delicious soft pretzels that taste like Auntie Anne's.

- Total time: 70 min
- Cuisine: German
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 4 cups flour
- 0.5 cups flour
- 2.25 teaspoons yeast
- 1 packet yeast
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons salt
- 0.25 cup oil
- 1.5 cups warm water
- 0.25 cup baking soda
- egg wash
- pretzel sea salt
- coarse sea salt
- melted butter

## Instructions

1. Combine flour, yeast, light brown sugar, and salt in a bowl, ensuring all ingredients are spread throughout the flour.
2. Add oil and warm water to the dry ingredients and begin stirring.
3. Once the mixture comes together, turn it out onto a clean surface and knead the dough until the dry flour is incorporated.
4. Spray the bowl with oil, place the dough in it, cover with plastic wrap, and let it rise until it doubles in size, about one hour.
5. Turn the proofed dough onto a clean surface, without punching it down, to maintain a fluffy texture.
6. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
7. Use a pizza cutter to cut a piece of dough, then roll it out into a long strand.
8. Shape the dough into a pretzel by setting the middle down, crossing the ends, crossing them again, and sticking the ends down.
9. In a shallow dish, combine water and a quarter cup of baking soda.
10. Dip both sides of each pretzel into the baking soda solution.
11. Place the dipped pretzels onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
12. Brush all pretzels with an egg wash.
13. Sprinkle the pretzels with pretzel sea salt or coarse sea salt.
14. Bake the pretzels in the preheated 450-degree Fahrenheit oven for 10 minutes.
15. Optionally, brush the warm pretzels with melted butter before serving.

## Equipment

- bowl
- plastic wrap
- pizza cutter
- shallow dish
- parchment lined baking sheet
- oven

## Tips

- Do not add more liquid when kneading the dough.
- Do not punch down the dough after proofing for a fluffier, airier pretzel.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18Gb3jTkaS/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/2b717fdf-d238-4007-aad0-47576ed5c2c9
- Extracted: 2026-06-08

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