Auntie Anne's Pretzels - Copycat

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast (1 pkg.)
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
• 1 cup bread flour
• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups water
• 2 tablespoons baking soda
• coarse salt
• 2 -4 tablespoons butter (melted)

Recipe

• 1 sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve.
• 2 add sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic.
• 3 let rise at least 1/2 hour.
• 4 while dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 tbsp baking soda.
• 5 be certain to stir often.
• 6 after dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape.
• 7 dip pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet.
• 8 allow pretzels to rise again.
• 9 bake in oven at 450 for about 10 minutes or until golden.
• 10 brush with melted butter.
• 11 toppings: after you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt.
• 12 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.
• 13 dip the pretzel into the butter, coating both sides generously.
• 14 then dip again into the cinnamon mixture.
• 15 notes: the longer and thinner you can make the dough rope, the more like auntie anne's they will be.