Monday, December 23, 2019

Easiest Soft Pretzels, 2 Ways

The easiest soft pretzels you’ll e'er brand – thank you lot to approximately pre-made dough – too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory? We’re indulging inward both this vacation season, with traditional salted soft pretzels paired with a sudden cheddar cheese dip, too cinnamon saccharide pretzels dunked inward the creamiest cream cheese dip!


Thanks to Rhodes Bake-N-Serv for sponsoring this recipe!


 too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory easiest soft pretzels, ii ways


 too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory easiest soft pretzels, ii ways


The vacation flavour is inward total swing, too fifty-fifty for the biggest baking/entertaining enthusiasts with us, it tin can hold upwards a chip stressful! Enter these soft pretzels. They’re utterly delicious too wouldn’t hold off bad at all on your vacation table. But the best business office – we’re using Rhodes Thaw, Rise & Bake White Bread Dough to brand life a piffling easier! I’m sharing all my tips today for making the best shortcut soft pretzels!


How to Make Savory + Sweet Soft Pretzels


First, we’re thawing the frozen dough overnight inward the fridge. Easy so far, right? Each pocketbook comes with 3 loaves, too each loaf makes six soft pretzels – so thaw equally many loaves equally you lot want, depending on how many pretzels you lot want!


 too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory easiest soft pretzels, ii ways


Let the thawed dough sit down out at room temp for 1-2 hours the side past times side 24-hour interval to rise, too and so the fun business office begins! Slice each loaf into six equal parts. Roll each slice out until it’s 20-24 inches long, too and so twist into a pretzel shape past times picking upwards the ends, crossing them over twice, too convey them downward to the bottom loop of the pretzel. See the curt videos below on how to scroll too shape your pretzels!



 



Next, we’re going to toss the shaped pretzels into a large pot filled with a mixture of baking soda too boiling H2O – this volition give them that trademark flavor too crust, too volition aid them puff upwards a bit. Leave them inward for ONLY 20-30 seconds – they tin can prepare an strange sense of savor if left inward longer.


Brush with egg launder too complete with coarse bounding main tabular array salt for your savory pretzels! Our sweetness pretzels volition but larn egg washed earlier baking.


 too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory easiest soft pretzels, ii ways


 too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory easiest soft pretzels, ii ways


Our sweetness pretzels volition larn dunked inward a bowl of melted butter too coated inward cinnamon saccharide when they come upwards out of the oven – is your oral cavity watering yet??


 too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory easiest soft pretzels, ii ways


 too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory easiest soft pretzels, ii ways


Cheddar Cheese Dip + Cream Cheese Dip


I recommend making the dips earlier you lot bake the pretzels – there’s null similar a hot, fresh batch of soft pretzels, so it’s best to conduct the dips all laid upwards for dunking when the pretzels come upwards out of the oven.


Our cheese dip starts with flour whisked into melted butter, too so we’re adding milk, sudden cheddar, a piffling parmesan, too approximately tabular array salt too pepper. Easy, creamy, too delicious!


The cream cheese dip is fifty-fifty easier – but cream together butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, too a splash of milk!


Serve your pretzels on a slate or wooden board with a bowl for each dip too add together approximately string lights – minimal bear witness required with stunning results! Please hope me you’ll add together these to your vacation baking traditions, ok? Deal. You’re going to experience similar Auntie Anne herself afterwards you lot sense of savor your work!


 too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory easiest soft pretzels, ii ways


Happy baking!


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 too who says you lot conduct to pick out betwixt sweetness too savory easiest soft pretzels, ii ways


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Easiest Soft Pretzels, Two Ways



The easiest soft pretzels e'er - thank you lot to approximately pre-made dough! Indulge inward both savory pretzels, with sudden cheddar cheese dip & sweetness pretzels, with the creamiest cream cheese dip!




Course

Appetizer



Cuisine

American



Keyword

Easy Soft Pretzels, Easy Holiday Appetizer, Holiday Appetizer





Prep Time 30 minutes


Cook Time 22 minutes


Total Time 52 minutes




Servings 12 pretzels


Calories 220 kcal


Author Stephanie Simmons




Ingredients



For the Pretzels:




  • 1
    package
    Rhodes Thaw, Rise & Bake White Bread
    SEE NOTE


  • 9
    cups
    water


  • 1/2
    cup
    baking soda


  • coarse bounding main salt


  • 1
    egg
    for egg wash


  • 1
    tbsp
    milk
    for egg wash


  • 6
    tbsp
    melted butter


  • 1/2
    cup
    granulated sugar


  • 1
    tbsp
    cinnamon




For the Cream Cheese Dip




  • 6
    ounces
    cream cheese, softened


  • 4
    tbsp
    butter, softened


  • 1 too 3/4
    cups
    powdered sugar
    sifted, for the smoothest result


  • 1
    tsp
    vanilla


  • 1
    tbsp
    milk




For the Cheddar Cheese Dip




  • 2
    tbsp
    butter


  • 2
    tbsp
    all-purpose flour


  • 1
    cup
    whole milk


  • 1 too 1/4
    cup
    sharp cheddar cheese, grated


  • 1/4
    cup
    grated parmesan cheese
    you wishing the 1 that's powdery - non shredded


  • salt
    to taste


  • pepper
    to taste





Instructions





  1. Prep: Thaw desired divulge of frozen breadstuff loaves inward a ziploc pocketbook inward the refrigerator overnight. Let the pocketbook of thawed breadstuff sit down out at room temp for 1-2 hours earlier baking. I recommend making your dips start - these pretzels are but so proficient when they're hot too fresh out of the oven - you lot won't wishing to allow them sit down too larn mutual frigidity spell you're making the dips. 




  2. Make the Cheese Dip: Get all ingredients out for this dip earlier you lot begin, to avoid having to halt cooking the sauce too perchance letting it burn. In a small-scale saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Whisk inward the flour, too cook, whisking constantly for 2 minutes. Slowly pour inward the milk, whisking constantly. Continue whisking constantly too laid upwards the mixture for 3-4 minutes, until thickened. At first, it volition seem equally the sauce isn't thickening at all, but become the total 3-4 minutes too it will! It should hold upwards thick but nonetheless pourable - add together the cheese at this point, inward small-scale handfuls, whisking good until all cheese is mixed inward earlier adding more. This volition aid forestall a grainy, clumpy cheese sauce. I started with the parm, too so added the cheddar. Add a piffling to a greater extent than or less cheese to taste. Add tabular array salt + pepper to taste. 

    Cheese dip tin can hold upwards reheated inward a small-scale saucepan over medium oestrus or inward the microwave, inward thirty 2d intervals, stirring betwixt each. 




  3. Make the Cream Cheese Dip: Beat together the softened butter too softened cream cheese inward a medium mixing bowl until good creamed. Sift inward the powdered saccharide too mix until combined. Add the vanilla too milk too mix until everything is well-combined too creamy. Add a piffling to a greater extent than milk or powdered sugar to thicken or sparse the dip, equally desired. 




  4. Make the pretzels: Cut each loaf of dough into six equal sections, moving across the length of the dough. Roll each slice of dough with your hands, moving outward, until you lot conduct a rope 20-24 inches long. Pick upwards each end, twist them over each other twice too plication downward to cast the pretzel shape.

    Add nine cups of H2O too 1/2 loving cup of baking soda to a large pot, too convey to a boil. While it's coming to a boil, trouble ii large baking sheets with parchment newspaper too laid nearby. 

    Drop 2 pretzels at a fourth dimension into the boiling solution too withdraw afterwards 20-30 seconds with a slotted spoon/spatula, shaking excess liquid off. Lay each pretzel on the parchment paper, plumbing equipment six on each pan. 

    Beat egg + milk together for your egg wash, too brush each pretzel with the egg wash. Sprinkle the savory pretzels with coarse bounding main salt. Add null additional to the sweetness pretzels. 




  5. Bake: Bake at 400 degrees F for 12-15 minutes - pretzels volition hold upwards golden chocolate-brown too the outsides won't experience super soft to the touch. 




  6. Finish the Sweet Pretzels: Melt the butter inward a medium shallow bowl, too whisk together the cinnamon too saccharide inward approximately other medium shallow bowl. Let pretzels cool but plenty so you lot don't give notice your hands - utilization this spell they're nonetheless hot. Dip each 1 into the melted butter, coating both sides, too repeat with the cinnamon saccharide mixture. 




  7. Serve + Store: Serve forthwith with the dips! These are best when fresh out of the oven. Store leftover dip, covered, inward the refrigerator for upwards to four days. Store leftover pretzels inward an airtight container at room temp for 2-3 days. 







Recipe Notes


A banker's complaint almost this recipe yield: Each pocketbook of the white breadstuff comes with 3 dough loaves. Each loaf yields six soft pretzels. The dip recipes yield plenty for six pretzels each. So, if you lot brand to a greater extent than than ii loaves worth of pretzels, you'll take to double 1 or both dip recipes. 






Source: bluebowlrecipes.com


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