Easy Cinnamon Sugar Soft Pretzels!
Easy Cinnamon Sugar Soft Pretzels
This recipe for super easy and fast cinnamon sugar soft pretzels is perfect for any home baker, beginner to advanced. I love this simple recipe so much because it’s quick to put together and I always seem to have all the ingredients in my pantry already. It’s also the tastiest of sugar-cinnamon dough treats! My kiddo loves these so much, he asks for them all the time and he loves to help me make them. If you’ve never made homemade pretzels before, I’ve added some of my favorite notes in this post to get you baking pretzels like a pro! So if you have an hour and these 8 common ingredients on hand, let’s get started!
Dough Ingredients:
1.5 Cups Warm Milk
1 Packet (2 1/4 tsp) Dry Yeast
1 tbsp Brown Sugar
1 tsp Salt
1 tbsp Melted Butter
3.5 Cups All-Purpose Flour
Cinnamon Sugar Topping Ingredients:
4 tbsp Melted Butter
1 Cup Sugar
1 tbsp Cinnamon
Step 1 Mix the Ingredients
Step 2 Knead the Dough
Flour your surface with flour and knead the dough for 3 minutes. Work the dough with the palms of your hands pushing toward your surface alternating to the left and right. It will get sticky as you knead it. So keep adding a sprinkle of flour to the top to keep it from sticking to your hands. At the end of 3 minutes, the dough will feel like it loosened up and became soft and workable.
Step 3 Let the Dough Rest
I like to use as little bowls as possible for easy cleanup. A lot of bakers will tell you to grease a new bowl but if you just lightly flour your current working bowl (yes even if it’s caked in leftover dough pieces), plop your dough right back in there and it’ll be fine. This is not a long rise, so it won’t get super large and sticky on the sides. Cover it with a tea towel and let rise at room temperature for 10 minutes.
It should look slightly puffed, like this:
Step 4 Divide the Dough, Roll, & Shape!
Divide into 8 equal pieces using a dough knife or any knife that you have on hand. I LOVE my dough knife and highly recommend grabbing one. I use it to scrape sticky flour off my counter for quick clean up too!
If you want perfectly shaped pretzels that are all the same size, use a ruler! I roll mine out to 24 inches.
A simple twist and pinch to connect the pretzel shape…
Step 5 BAKE!
Preheat the oven to 400F and prepare the pretzels on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Let the pretzels sit out uncovered at room temperature to rise a little more while the oven is heating. Bake for 18 minutes or until the tops are golden brown. If you’ve made soft pretzels before, note that the color won’t change to a traditional darker pretzel color because we skipped the salt bath step.
Step 6 Cinnamon Sugar Coating
While the pretzels are baking, mix the sugar and cinnamon on a plate and set aside. Melt 4 tbsp butter in a small bowl in the microwave.
Move your pretzels to a drying rack and place the parchment paper underneath to catch excess butter and cinnamon-sugar. Brush a generous layer of melted butter to all sides of one pretzel, roll and coat the pretzel with the cinnamon-sugar mixture, and repeat for all 8 pretzels.
AND ENJOY!
Serve fresh and warm, yum!!
Easy Cinnamon Sugar Soft Pretzels!
Ingredients
- 1.5 Cups Warm Milk
- 1 Packet (2 1/4 tspns) Instant Yeast
- 1 tbsp Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Melted Butter
- 3.5 Cups All-Purpose Flour
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- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 tbsp Cinnamon
- 4 tbsp Melted Butter
Instructions
- Pour Warm Milk into the bowl of an electric stand mixer or large mixing bowl and sprinkle with yeast. Whisk and let sit for a few minutes or until yeast is puffy and active.
- Whisk in the brown sugar, salt, and tbsp of melted butter.
- With a dough hook attachment or wooden spoon, knead in the flour one cup at a time.
- Roll out onto a floured surface and knead the dough for 3 minutes.
- Put the dough back into the mixing bowl (floured), cover with a tea towel, and let rise at room temperature for 10 minutes.
- On a floured surface, divide the dough into 8 pieces with a pastry knife. Roll out to 24 inches each and shape into pretzels.
- Add pretzels to 2 parchment paper-lined baking sheets and let rest uncovered at room temperature while the oven is preheating to 400F.
- Bake for 18 minutes.
- While baking, mix the sugar and cinnamon a plate and melt the 4 tbsp melted butter in a small bowl.
- Place baked pretzels on a cooling rack over parchment paper.
- Generously brush a pretzel on all sides with melted butter and roll in cinnamon sugar.
- Repeat for all 8 pretzels and serve fresh and warm!
