Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups warm water (105-115 degrees)
2 packages active dry yeast
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup vegetable oil
4- 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 egg white
1Tbsp. cold water
Directions: Put the warm water into a large bowl and sprinkle in yeast. Stir until dissolved. Add sugar, salt, oil, and 3 cups flour. Gradually add the rest of the flour to make a soft dough. Knead dough by hand for 10 minutes until it is smooth and feels elastic. Cover bowl with a dry cloth and let it rest for 30 minutes. Divide dough into 24 pieces and let it rest for 5 minutes. To make a pretzel shape, form it into a long rope, bring the ends upward, twist the ends together once, and pressing them on the bottom curve. Place on baking sheets. Beat egg white and cold water together and brush the mixture on the pretzels and sprinkle on cinnamon and sugar. Bake in 425 degree oven for 12-15 minutes. Remove from baking sheets to wire rack to cool. Enjoy!Note: If you want salt on the pretzels, sprinkle on kosher salt instead of cinnamon.
WOW looks great. I tried to do something like this (twirling dough and baking it) instead of doing classic shapes... I spelled out words...hahaha
ReplyDelete(hey maybe you could spell out HELLO with pretzels.. that would be kool!!)
........or make personalized pretzels by spelling out the person's name.
ReplyDeleteYa...but then you couldn't post that cause you'd be revealing your REAL name (plus most of our "names" are REALLY long and hard to spell out with pretzels)
ReplyDeleteMy name is not so long but I guess it will still be hard. My lil sis used the dough and made a ducky, well kinda..... I just didn't show it.
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