Auntie Anne's Pretzels at Home

70 mins
Serves 1
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Directions

  1. 1Add 4 to 4.5 cups of bread flour into a large bowl.
  2. 2Add 2 and 1/4 teaspoons or one packet of fast-rising yeast directly into the flour.
  3. 3Add 2 tablespoons of light brown sugar.
  4. 4Add 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of salt.
  5. 5Whisk all dry ingredients to ensure they are spread throughout the flour.
  6. 6Pour 1/4 cup of oil into the mixture.
  7. 7Add 1 and 1/2 cups of warm water.
  8. 8Start stirring the mixture in the bowl with a spatula.
  9. 9Turn the mixture out onto a clean surface once it looks like a shaggy dough.
  10. 10Gather the dough and begin kneading all the dry flour in.
  11. 11Spray the bowl with oil.
  12. 12Place the kneaded dough into the oiled bowl.
  13. 13Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rise until it doubles in size for about an hour.
  14. 14Turn the proofed dough onto a clean surface.
  15. 15Preheat your oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
  16. 16Cut a side off the dough using a pizza cutter.
  17. 17Roll out the dough portion into a long rope.
  18. 18Form the pretzel by setting the middle of the rope down, crossing the ends, crossing them again, and sticking the ends down.
  19. 19Get a shallow dish and pour some water in.
  20. 20Sprinkle in about 1/4 cup of baking soda into the water.
  21. 21Dip both sides of the pretzel into the baking soda water.
  22. 22Place the dipped pretzel onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
  23. 23Brush all your pretzels with an egg wash.
  24. 24Sprinkle the pretzels with pretzel sea salt or coarse sea salt.
  25. 25Bake the pretzels in your 450-degree oven for 10 minutes.

Ingredients

  • 4 cups bread flour
  • 4.5 cups bread flour
  • 2.25 teaspoons fast-rising yeast
  • 1 packet fast-rising yeast
  • 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
  • 1.5 teaspoons salt
  • 0.25 cup oil
  • 1.5 cups warm water
  • 0.25 cup baking soda
  • 1 egg
  • pretzel sea salt
  • melted butter

Equipment

bowlwhiskspatulapizza cuttershallow dishbaking sheetparchment paperbasting brush

Tips

  • Do not add more liquid than specified to the dough.
  • Do not punch down the dough after it has risen for a more fluffy and airy pretzel.
  • Sprinkle with coarse sea salt from the dollar tree as an alternative to pretzel sea salt.