Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzels Recipe

Make our Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzels Recipe at home tonight for your family. With our Secret Restaurant Recipe your Soft Pretzels will taste just like Auntie Anne’s.

Prep Time45

Active Time10

Total Time55

Course: Kid Favorite, Party Recipe, Snack

Keyword: Auntie Anne's Pretzels

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup warm Water
1 1/8 teaspoon active Dry Yeast
2 tablespoons Brown Sugar
1 1/8 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Bread Flour
3 cups regular Flour
4 tablespoons Sweet Butter melted, to brush

Baking Soda Water Bath

2 cups warm Water
2 tablespoons Baking Soda

Instructions

Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl. Stir to dissolve.
Add brown sugar and salt. Stir to dissolve.
Add flour. Mix well until a dough forms.
Turn out on a floured surface. Knead dough until smooth and elastic.
Place back in bowl. Let rise at least 1/2 hour.
While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath. Combine warm water and baking soda. Be certain to stir well.
After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope. (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape into traditional pretzel shape, a pretzel knot or other shape.
Dip shaped pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet.
Allow pretzels to rise again.
Bake in 450°F oven for about 10 minutes or until golden.
Brush with melted butter.

For Topping

Coarse Salt
Auntie Anne's Famous Cinnamon Sugar
Melted Cheese
Any Other Toppings you can imagine

After you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt.

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. Dip the pretzel into the butter, coating both sides generously. Then dip again into the cinnamon mixture.