These homemade cinnamon sugar pretzels will become your new favorite treat! They're perfectly soft and chewy, dipped in butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar.
Prep Time: 25 minutesminutes
Cook Time: 15 minutesminutes
Total Time: 40 minutesminutes
Servings: 12
Ingredients
1 ½cupswarm water
1packet active yeast(or 2 1/4 teaspoons)
3 ½cupsall-purpose flour, more as needed
1 ½teaspoonssalt
2Tablespoonsgranulated sugar
⅓cupbaking soda(for boiling water)
Cinnamon sugar:
¼cupmelted butter
½cupgranulated sugar
1Tablespoonground cinnamon
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with a baking mat or parchment paper and set aside.
In a small bowl, add warm water and yeast. Allow to sit for 3-5 minutes. Add salt and sugar and stir.
In a large bowl, add flour and then pour yeast mixture over top. Knead with bread hook in your mixer or by hand for about 5 minutes.
Separate dough into 12 sections. Roll dough into ropes about 15-20 inches long and 1 inch thick. Then form rope into a circle and twist the top ends together. Then bring the twisted ends down the center of the circle and pinch together with the bottom to form the pretzels.
In a large pan, bring about 8 cups water + 1/3 cup baking soda to a boil. Once water is boiling, place a piece of dough into the water for about 30 seconds. Remove with slotted spoon and place onto baking sheet. Repeat until all pretzels have been boiled.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from oven to a cooling rack.
Mix the sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. Then dip the pretzels into the melted butter and then into the sugar mixture. These pretzels are best served the same day. If you don't plan to serve them right away, wait to roll them in butter and sugar.
Notes
If you aren't making these for a party, you can easily half this recipe. Pretzel bites: Instead of shaping into pretzels, simply cut the dough ropes into 1 1/2 to 2 inch pieces. You should end up with 60-70 dough pieces. Boil about 8 pieces at a time in the baking soda water for 30 seconds, then transfer to a baking sheet. Bake at 400°F for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the pretzels are golden brown. Then dip each piece in melted butter and sugar mixture.Freezer instructions: These pretzels do not freeze as well once the cinnamon sugar coat is on. If you plan to freeze them, freeze the pretzels before dipping in the butter and cinnamon and sugar mixture.