Both the cinnamon sugar and the classic salted pretzel is in question here… And we’re going to make it completely from scratch with a homemade dough in a home oven.
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Full Recipe: https://www.joshuaweissman.com/post/making-auntie-anne-s-pretzels-at-home-but-better
Ingredients Needed:
Dough:
2 cups (500ml) water @100f
1/3 cup (72g) brown sugar
3 1/4 teaspoon (14g) instant yeast
1/4 cup (60ml) neutral-tasting oil
5.5 cups (825g) all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon (6g) fine sea salt
Lye Bath:
-30g food-grade lye
-1000g filtered water
Salted topping:
-flakey salt for topping
-melted butter for brushing
Cinnamon Sugar:
-1 cup (225g) melted SALTED butter
-3/4 cup (155g) granulated sugar
-1/4 cup (55g) dark brown sugar
-2.5 teaspoons (7g) ground cinnamon
42 Comments
Lye might end up being the first poison in my pantry 😰🫣 it’s a bit daunting to think about, really. Is there any alternative, even if it downgraded the recipe? I have a toddler and one on the way, two dogs and a clumsy husband… it’s really not fun to think about it 😩
I have only ate soft pretzels once before so these we're amazing the ones he bought from the restaurant
One time I ate a pretzel the sis e of my forearm
You can call them Whitey Whackers!
Hi, they look amazing. Is there no need for a final proof?
cool video!! gonna have to buy that cookbook
tbh Tucker Brewing Company’s pretzels is the best pretzel in my opinion-
I need the j& j cream cheese stuff pretzel 😢…. plz
Sorry no, this is not making Auntie Anne's Pretzels. We need call this for what it really is, an off shoot of another form of soft pretzels.
Damn
i just made these and tbh real good but i stil prefer Auntie Anne's
I clicked on this video to see if you have a recipe that mimics Auntie Anne’s, and instead it’s just dissing it. Sad.
Seems a little dangerous for a pretzel…
The lye is optional, I use baking soda and they come out just as good. Great recipe.
Yeah, i ain’t gonna touch Lye with a 10 ft. pole.
I’ll stick with the hot Baking Soda bath method for 30-60 seconds.
the B in Pretzels stands for best and the T stands for terrible. (It's a joke, because the German writing is Brezel)
When you said the name for the dough and I saw what it said
I was laughing so hard
Josh!!! Love your videos. Watch them all. We're opening a retro arcade and I would love to serve some of the items from your cookbook (bought it!!) including the pretzles, but i'm not sure how to handle prep and holding to create a fresh product but limit waste. Specific to this recipe, how can I keep these fresh for our place? Chill/freeze dough (and for how many days is this possible), or should we cook them and then fridge/freeze the complete pretzles. Advice please!?
hol up: Cinnamon-sugar Pretzels are a thing in the us? oO
This is just a che@p attempt to sell his tr@shy cook book. 1. Man bun, 2. Everything he claims about Auntie Anne's is false. How many millions if not billions of pretzels has AA sold? How many door stops, I mean books, has hr sold?
i an literally in love with auntie anne. but pls make the cinnibites and mini pretzel dogs!
you don't like going to the mall, what a boomer lol
I used this recipe. it was legit. I had to change placement in the oven but the rest of the instructions worked out perfectly. i never thought i would be able to make a pretzel that actually tasted like a pretzel. Thanks Josh! ………. you are wrong about Auntie Annes though. Of course its going to taste bad after several hours. …………. just a note for everybody, use cold water for the lye bath because it will get hot and your pretzel may fall apart.
2:21 “this looks like the anemic version that was forgotten at the hospital” 😂
i think it's wrong that we classify Amish style pretzels and German style pretzels as the same food
the comments are defending Auntie Anne's so hard! I don't get it. I've had Auntie Anne's, they're good, not great. my wife and I made pretzels at home, 10x better.
Man Bun says it all
LOVE THIS
What a pretentious douchebag😂😂
guys of course he didn't literally hate Auntie Annie's pretzels, it's called comedy
Just use 5 cups of water and 1/3 cup of baking soda instead of lye. Heat to a simmer then shut off before letting pretzels rest for 10 seconds in hot water.
Josh you maybe having good tasting food but the best food of all freaking time is Alton Brown just saying but I didn’t say your food is awful I’m just saying Alton’s is far more better from his show good eats and goods reloaded and good eats the return shows with those recipes and his cook book recipes
Ahh so no one noticed the pun “lye-ability is on you!” 😅
I MISS WHEN U JUST COOKED AND SHOOK ASS
Closing the bags even if the the pretzels are fresh out of the oven makes them soggy and the baking soda starts to make it taste bitter
I tried your recipe and it trashed taste also
Omg lol I love auntie Ann's. There so yummy.
Lye-ability
For those who are scared of using Lye, you can add 2/3 of a cup (158g) of baking soda diluted in 10 cups (2370g) of water. Bring the mix to a boil and let the pretzel dough soak for 1min 30second. Then brush with an egg wash
Auntie Anne’s is the best, I will die on this hill. But anyway I’ll give this a shot when I got time… or not, because I don’t think I can be trusted with Lye 😂
Dude, pretzels were like…heavenly to me a decade ago. Carbohydrate goodness. I love savory, soft pretzels. I only like hard pretzels when they're made in a mix. I had this coworker and she would make a mix of hard pretzels with cheese crackers but add chilli flakes, garlic and lime. She knew her stuff. She could sell that stuff on the street.
PISS