Easy Soft Pretzel Bites
Hot buttery soft pretzel bites, that are perfect for dipping or eating plain! Simplified homemade recipe for holiday parties, game night, or movie night!
Servings: 6 people
Equipment
- Mixer
- 2 baking sheets
- 2 wire cooling racks
- 1 pastry/basting brush
Ingredients
Soft Pretzel Mixture
- 4 tsp yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 1/4 cup warm water
- 3 1/2 -4 cups flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbls oil
- kosher salt
- 6 tbls butter - melted
Pretzel Baking Soda Mixture
- 1/3 cup baking soda
- 4 cups hot tap water
Instructions
- Mix first 3 ingredients, yeast, sugar, and warm water in a small bowl or measuring cup. Make sure warm water is between 75 to 130 degrees. Warm but not hot.
- Let ingredients sit for 10 minutes. Allow to foam.
- In a mixer, add 3 1/2 cups of flour, 1/2 cup sugar, and 1 1/2 tsp salt. Mix.
- Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture. Pour in the oil.
- Add in 1/3 of the wet yeast mixture. Mix.
- Continue incorporating the rest of the wet ingredients into the flour mixture.
- Mix until dough does not stick to the sides of the mixing bowl.
- Hand knead the dough for 5-7 minutes. Add some of the additional 1/2 cup of flour until dough is soft but not sticky.
- Remove dough and place in a bowl sprayed with oil. Cover bowl with a clean dish towel. Allow to rest for 1 hour.
- After 1 hour, preheat oven to 450.
- Remove dough from bowl. Portion out a tablespoon of dough and roll dough into small balls (about 1 1/2 inches). Continue until all the dough is gone.
- Mix hot tap water and baking soda. Dip the pretzel dough balls into the baking soda mixture.
- Rest pretzel balls on wire rack sitting inside a baking sheet.
- Move pretzel dough balls to a clean baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Melt butter and brush butter on uncooked bites. Sprinkle on kosher salt. Bake at 450 for 8 minutes.
- Pretzel bites should be brown with a slight hard shell, but soft on the inside. Brush on more melted butter.
- Serve warm!