COPYCAT Auntie Anne's Pretzel Bites || Auntie Anne's Pretzels Recipe || Cinnamon Sugar & Original

all-purpose flour

🥗Healthier: whole wheat flour

💰Cheaper: bread flour

Whole wheat flour adds fiber while bread flour can enhance texture.

cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: processed cheese

Nutritional yeast offers a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

Warm 2 cups of milk in the microwave for 1 to 1.5 minutes until just warm to the touch.

Add 1 tablespoon of brown sugar and 1.5 tablespoons of yeast to the warm milk and mix. Let it sit for about 10 minutes to proof.

In a mixing bowl, combine the proofed yeast mixture with 4 tablespoons of melted butter and the remaining 5 tablespoons of brown sugar, then add 2 teaspoons of salt and 5 cups of flour.

Knead the mixture using a stand mixer with a dough hook for about 10 minutes, adding up to an additional half cup of flour if the dough is too sticky.

Coat the dough ball with a little oil and cover it, letting it rest for about 1 hour or until it doubles in size.

Punch down the dough and spray the counter with cooking spray to prevent sticking. Divide the dough into 12 equal portions.

Roll each portion into a rope, ensuring they are even in thickness.

Warm 3 cups of water on the stove and dissolve 1/3 cup of baking soda in it to create a solution.

Cut the pretzel ropes into bite-sized pieces, about 1 inch each, and dip them into the baking soda solution.

Place the dipped pretzel bites onto a greased cookie sheet, ensuring they are not too far apart.

Sprinkle coarse salt over the pretzel bites before baking.

Bake in a preheated oven at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for 6 to 10 minutes, checking for a golden color (8 minutes is suggested).

Melt 1 stick of butter in the microwave and dunk the baked pretzel bites in the butter, tapping off excess.

For cinnamon sugar pretzels, mix 1/2 cup of white sugar with 2 tablespoons of cinnamon. Dunk half of the buttered pretzel bites into the cinnamon sugar mixture.

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