Here's an Easy Recipe for Soft Pretzels
By: Highlights Editorial
Store-bought pretzels with their uniform shapes? Who needs ’em? Your kids can learn best how pretzels are made when they bake their own. Consider this: Instead of buying that bag of pretzels, buy a package of yeast and let kids make their own pretzels in crazy shapes. Their original edible works of art will put ballpark and city-street pretzels to shame. Kids mix the dough, knead it and twist it into any-which-way shapes. A brush of egg wash is the “self tanner” that gives pretzels their golden-brown shade in the oven. Sprinkled with salt, maybe dipped in a little mustard—they’re delicious. More, please!
What You'll Need
What to Do
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Preheat the oven to 400°F.
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Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and spray with vegetable oil.
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Sprinkle the yeast onto the warm water. Add the sugar and stir. Let stand until mixture foams.
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Put the flour and salt into a bowl. Add the yeast mixture and stir.
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Sprinkle flour on the counter and knead the dough until it is smooth.
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Roll pieces of dough into ropes and make fun-shaped or traditional pretzels.
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Lay pretzels on the foil-lined cookie sheet.
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Beat an egg with a fork.
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Brush pretzels with the egg wash and sprinkle with coarse salt.
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Bake pretzels for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool on a rack. Enjoy—with mustard, if you like.
