GARLIC PARMESAN SOFT PRETZELS + 2 OTHER WAYS

Easy to make soft pretzels that taste just like Auntie Anne’s. Ready in just a little over an hour. You can top them with salt, cinnamon-sugar, garlic parmesan and dunk them in your favorite pretzel dips!

Hand me a napkin, please.

Let’s get messy today with loads of yummy grated parmesan and ohhh yeah, GARLIC. Yeah, you down? I won’t even judge if you’ve got parmesan and garlic crumbs all over your face. Nope. No judging here! Mainly because that was me about 15 seconds ago.

Can I be honest with you? I am totally a jalapeño pretzel kinda gal. But one bite of these garlic parmesan soft pretzels and I. am. hooked.

But maybe garlic parmesan pretzels are totally not your thing? It’s cool. I can dig it. In this post, you’re going to learn how to make 3 different flavors. That’s right ladies and gentlemen. WHAM, BAM, YES MA’AM! I’ve got the ever so popular original with coarse salt, the cinnamon-sugar sweetie, and of course the robust garlic parmesan pretzel.

You know, I always thought homemade pretzels were time consuming. And honestly, I also assumed there were a headache to make. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised!

So today, I’m sharing a soft pretzel recipe thats a breeze to make. You WONT even need a mixer. Shut the front door! If that isn’t easy, I don’t know what is. We’re doing 10 short minutes of prep. Waiting an hour. And then a zippy 10 minutes to baking the pretzel and gobbling large bites.

Let’s start making these goodies, shall we? First, you’re going to stir a packet of yeast into a bowl of warm milk – 1 cup exactly. Don’t be afraid of yeast! I know it can be intimidating. I was too. But, truuuust me. It’s reallly not that bad.

Once the yeast has had a couple of minutes to bathe, add the brown sugar and 1 cup of the flour. Stir everything using a wooden spoon. Add the butter, keep mixing.  Once mixed, add the rest of the flour and the salt. The dough is going to get really sticky.

Dumb the dough out onto a floured surface and knead. If the dough is too sticky add a few teaspoons of flour at a time until the dough is smooth but still tacky.  The whole process should take 5 minutes. Shape the dough into a ball and place it in a lightly greased bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let the dough rise in a warm place. Wait 1 hour.

At this point, if you’re making the garlic parmesan pretzels: Combine the 6 tablespoons of parmesan and the 2 1/2 teaspoons of granulated garlic. You are going to add a few tablespoons of this mixture to your dough.

If you’re making the cinnamon-sugar pretzels: Combine 1/4 cup granulated sugar with 1 tablespoon of cinnamon.

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees and grease a large baking sheet. Line with parchment or a silicone pad.

Punch the dough to deflate it. Then turn out onto a lightly floured surface. For garlic parmesan soft pretzels: add 3 tablespoons of the garlic parmesan mixture and continue to knead the dough until the mixture is spread evenly. Check to see if the dough is tight. If it is, cover and let rest until it relaxes. Divide the dough into 6 pieces. Roll and stretch each piece with the palms of your hands into a 30-inch rope, holding the ends and slapping the middle of the rope on the counter as you stretch. Form each rope into a pretzel shape.

Dissolve the baking soda in 3 cups warm water in a shallow baking dish. Gently dip each pretzel into the baking soda bath. Arrange pretzels on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with coarse salt if making the original soft pretzels. Bake until golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Melt the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter. Brush bottoms of pretzels with melted butter. Flip pretzels over and continue to brush the butter.

For garlic parmesan soft pretzels: sprinkle the remaining garlic parmesan mixture over the soft pretzels.

For cinnamon-sugar soft pretzels: sprinkle the cinnamon-sugar mixture over the pretzels. Alternately, you can place the cinnamon-sugar mixture in a shallow dish and dip each side of the pretzel until evenly coated.

Enjoy large bites of these deliciously soft pretzels.

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