AUNTIE ANNE'S CINNAMON PRETZEL RECIPES

Steps:

• Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve.
• Add sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic.
• Let rise at least 1/2 hour.
• While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 tbsp baking soda.
• Be certain to stir often.
• After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape.
• Dip pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet.
• Allow pretzels to rise again.
• Bake in oven at 450 for about 10 minutes or until golden.
• Brush with melted butter.
• Toppings: 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.
• Notes: The longer and thinner you can make the dough rope, the more like Auntie Anne's they will be.

Steps:

• Using a large bowl, dissolve the yeast in the warm milk. Feel free to usenon-dairy milk if you prefer. Let the mixture sit for 3-5 minutes.
• Next, add in the brown sugar, salt, butter. Then, the flour (one cup at a timeuntil fully incorporated
• Mix until smooth, the dough will be slightly sticky, but that is okay. Cover thebowl with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap that you have perforated and let riseuntil doubled in size, about 45 minutes to 1 hour
• Preheat the oven to 450. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper andset aside.
• Next, you will divide the dough into equal-sized pieces, about 12-16 and rolleach piece into a long skinny rope. Loop around itself and twist into a pretzelshape
• Boil your water in a medium to the large-sized pot, and once it reaches a boil,add in the baking soda until dissolved. Dip each pretzel into the baking sodamixture, letting it sit for 20 seconds, any more than this and they will taste“metallic-y”, using a slotted spoon, place on the prepared baking sheets.Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until golden brown and smelling delicious.
• Whisk together the sugar and cinnamon in a shallow baking pan or bowl.Brush the pretzels with melted butter, then dip them in the cinnamon sugarmixture, coating evenly
• Enjoy while warm.