Homemade Soft Pretzels

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 ¼ teaspoons Active Yeast

  1 Packet Yeast
• 2 teaspoons Salt
• 1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar

  We like Dark Brown Sugar
• 4 Tablespoons Butter
• 4 ¼ Cups Flour

  All Purpose flour
• Coarse Salt
• ½ Cup Baking Soda

Instructions

• 1 Melt Butter
  
  In a mixing bowl whisk together 1 ½ Cups of Warm Water and Yeast. Let sit for
  one minute.
• 2 Whisk melted butter, salt, and brown sugar into the water yeast mixture
• 3 Add flour ¾ cup at a time into the yeast mixture
• 4 Continue to add flour until the dough is no longer sticky and the dough bounces
  back when poked gently with your finger. NOTE: Add ¼ cup of flour at a time
  until the dough is no longer sticky.
• 5 Let the dough rest for 10 minutes. Cover the mixing bowl with a clean towel.
  
  Preheat oven to 400°
• 6 Lightly spread flour on a clean counter. Place pretzel dough on the flour. Cut
  dough with a dough cutter or sharp knife into 3 or 4-inch long sections.
• 7 Roll the dough to form a rope about 18 to 20 inches long. Next, take either end
  of the rope in your fingertips and draw them together so the dough forms a
  circle
• 8 Twist the rope into a large loop. Put the two ends of the rope to make a
  horseshoe shape. Then twist one end over the other forming a circle. (Twist the
  ends of the rope together once or twice)
• 9 Bring the twisted ends around to the bottom curve and fold them down on the
  bottom curve. Make them stick together. If they don't stick use a little bit of
  water to wet the ends to make them stick.
• 10 In a large saucepan add 8 cups of water and ½ cup of baking Soda. Bring to a
  boil
  
  Drop 3 or 4 pretzels into the boiling baking soda water. Leave in for 25 to 30
  SECONDS.
• 11 Line baking sheets with foil and lightly spray with cooking spray. Place boiled
  Pretzels on the foil-lined baking sheet.
  
  Continue with baking soda bath until all pretzels are boiled
• 12 Sprinkle Course salt or your favorite seasoning onto Pretzels.
• 13 Place Pretzels in the Oven. Bake for 15 minutes or until Golden Brown.
• 14 ENJOY with your favorite dip!!!!

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