Making homemade pretzels is so easy when you use your bread machine. Bread Machine Pretzels are soft and chewy just like vendor style pretzels.
Making the dough for Bread Machine Pretzels is super easy and doesn’t require any fancy ingredients.
Perfect dough every time!
Bread Machine Pretzels
Ingredients
- 1 cup water room temperature
- 1 tbsp butter room temperature
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp dry yeast
- 6 cups water for cooking water
- 1/3 cup baking soda for cooking water
- 1 egg to brush on before baking
- 2-3 tbsp melted butter
- 2 tsp coarse salt for topping
Instructions
- Place 1 cup water, butter, sugar, salt, flour and dry yeast in bread machine pan in order listed. Do not mix.
- Select Dough setting and press start.
- When cycle is complete, remove dough and transfer to lightly floured surface.
- Preheat oven to 400F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly spray with cooking spray.
- Divide dough into 6 equal portions.
- Roll each piece of dough into a 18-20 inch rope.
- Shape rope into U, take 2 ends and cross over 1 or 2 times. Bring end towards you, fold down leaving ends over-hang a bit. Press down a bit where dough intersects at the bottom.
- Prepare baking soda water. Using large pot bring 6 cups of water to rapid simmer. Add baking soda slowly to water, stir to dissolve. Reduce heat to maintain a simmer.
- Place 1 to 2 pretzels into water. Do not overcrowd pot.
- Cook for 30 seconds, flip and cook for another 30 seconds.
- Using large slotted ladle remove pretzels and transfer to baking sheet.
- Prepare egg wash by whisking together egg with 1 tsp of water.
- Brush pretzels with egg wash. Sprinkle with coarse salt. My favorite is coarse sea salt.
- Bake 400ºF for 10-12 minutes until golden brown.
- Remove from oven and brush generously with melted butter.
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This recipe is awesome!!! The first time I made it the dough came out so perfect and not sticky at all! My family loved loved loved the pretzels! The second time the dough was more sticky, no idea why as I followed instructions to a T! They still tasted awesome, just a little more work to get them to look like pretzels!! Thank you for sharing this!!
Thank you so much BobbyJo
My husband couldn’t get enough!
Thank you Karen for taking the time to rate and comment on my recipe. Happy you and your husband enjoyed the pretzels.
Do I use instant rise yeast or regular?
Hey Ted, I use regular yeast.
Made these at bites instead of full pretzels for a party! They turn out great that way too! Just cut the ropes into bite sized pieces instead of twisting them into actual pretzels and voila! Definitely going to become a staple for birthday parties in our house!!