Tasty Soft Baked Pretzels Recipe

Soft Baked Pretzels.

You can make tasty Soft Baked Pretzels using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it with this recipe.

Basic Ingredients of Soft Baked Pretzels

1. It's 1 cup of milk.
2. Prepare 1 pkg of dry active yeast (1/4 tsp).
3. Prepare 3 tbsp of brown sugar.
4. It's 2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour.
5. It's 2 tbsp of butter, softened.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
7. Prepare 5 tbsp of baking soda.
8. Prepare 1.5 cups of warm water.
9. It's to taste of Coarse salt,.
10. You need to taste of Sesame seeds,.
11. Prepare 1/4 cup of butter melted.

Soft Baked Pretzels instructions

1. Warm the milk in the microwave for 45 seconds or until warm.(but not hot) stir in your yeast and set aside 4 min..
2. Pour your milk mixture into a large bowl and mix in your brown sugar using spoon (I just used a wooden spoon) once mixed in, stir in 1 cup of the flour until just combined.
3. Add your softened butter along with the remaining 1 1/4 cup flour and salt. Mix by hand until it all comes together.
4. Turn out onto lightly floured surface. Knead the dough for about 6 min..
5. Bring together in a big ball and place into a greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap.Set aside to rise for 1 hour in a warm place.
6. After an hour: punch the dough then divide into 6-8 pieces for large pretzels..
7. Preheat oven to 450°F.
8. Mix the 1.5 cups water and baking soda in a shallow bowl or dish..
9. Roll out each piece using palms into long tubes (about 12 inches) then form into shape..
10. Dip each pretzel in the baking soda water than place on lightly greased baking sheet..
11. Sprinkle with coarse salt and your sesame seeds (or poppyseeds or anything else you want to top the pretzels with).
12. Bake in oven for 11 minutes..
13. Once out of the oven, brush with the melted butter. Enjoy!.