That was probably the longest cliff hanger yet! I’m such a tease, making these, posting them on instagram, then not sharing the recipe with you until now. Oye…I guess I owe you all a cookie or a pretzel if that’s your cup of tea!
First of all, let’s talk soft pretzels.
My favorite memories of soft pretzels were all of the trips to the mall with my mom and 3 sisters. We’d do oodles of shopping andΒ always manage to stop at the pretzel store and get a fresh out-of-the-oven pretzel and somehow still take a turn and end up at the Great American cookie store to get a cookie of our choosing. Yes, the chocoholic in me always got the m&m cookie. If you’ve never gotten one, you need to try it. You basically can’t see the cookie because there are so many m&m’s on it.
The best.
Anyway. With these pretzels, we decided to give them a little variety and do them half salty and half cinnamon sugar. You can bet which one’s went first…
Yep, the cinnamon sugar.
Well, the picture below is one where we dipped the pretzel in the cinnamon sugar before baking. It basically melded the cinnamon sugar onto the pretzel for everlasting sweetness. But, I didn’t think they looked very pretty, so we brushed them with a little butter and dipped them in more cinnamon sugar. That’s where you get the picture above here, coated with cinnamon sugar.
Like I said, the pretzels didn’t last long. I ate the cinnamon sugar ones for breakfast with my grapefruit. Perfection, if I do say so myself!
What would you reach for first: Salty or Sweet?
Homemade Whole Wheat Soft Pretzels
adapted from Sally’s Baking Addiction
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups warm water, should feel like a warm bath
- 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups white whole wheat flour
- 1.5-2 cups whole wheat flour
- (egg wash) 1 egg + 1 teaspoon water
- (toppings) sea salt or cinnamon sugar
How-To
- Preheat the oven to 425Β°F. Set aside two baking sheets covered in parchment paper or a silpat mat.
- In a large bowl, combine the warm water and yeast. Stir and let sit for 1 minute.
- Stir in the sugar and salt.
- With a wooden spoon, slowly stir in the white whole wheat flour.
- Continue to combine and stir in just enough whole wheat flour until the dough comes together and it’s too sticky anymore.
- Knead in the same bowl with a little more flour for 5 minutes until you have a nice looking ball.
- Cut the ball with a knife into 3 equal parts. Then, cut those three parts into three parts. Then cut each of those in half, to make 18 pretzels. But, feel free to cut them into any amount you wish for smaller or larger pretzels.
- Roll each piece into a long snake, about 15″ long.
- Roll into the pretzel shape.
- In a bowl, beat the egg and teaspoon of water to make an egg wash.
- Dip each entire pretzel into the egg wash.
- (Salted Pretzel) Lay the egg washed pretzels on the baking sheet and sprinkle with sea salt.
- (Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel) Dip the egg washed pretzel into the cinnamon sugar to coat. Then, lay on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes, then broil on high for just a few seconds until golden brown.
- Enjoy them warm or wait until cooled.
- (Cinnamon Sugar second coating) Melt some unsalted butter. Using a pastry brush, paint the butter onto the pretzels. Sprinkle with more cinnamon sugar. Shake off excess cinnamon sugar.
- Enjoy!
So glad you made them! I love them with a cinnamon sugar topping as well. They look wonderful!
Thank you Sally! They were amazing…so thank YOU for such a great recipe!
Oooh, yum! I been wanting to make a whole wheat version for awhile and your recipe is my inspiration. Plus I’m a Philly girl so we all are basically raised on soft pretzels π
My son has been driving me nuts to make soft pretzels! This will help a lot! Thanks!
Cinnamon and sugar pretzels are basically my favorite food group.
Love these π
i love soft pretzels…but would go for salty…dipped in cheese π
Oh. my. gosh. I almost fell off my couch when I saw this on twitter. Need to make these asap! Now if I can only figure out how turn dough into a pretzel shape, I’ll be all set. π Thanks for sharing!
Oh, I’d love a cinnamon sugar pretzel for breakfast! π
I am such a soft pretzel addict but have never thought to make them with whole wheat flour. Maybe for my Super Bowl party… π
MmmMM i need one (or 5) of these . . . like 5 minutes ago!
Love, love, love it! π
I love these–healthy hot pretzels! π
Oh my! Love BOTH! But honestly, I would probably grab the salty one first (I know- *shock*), but thats only because I would want the cinnamon sugar one for dessert π
I want them both! Sweet pretzels don’t seem to exist here but that’s okay because the salty ones are so good. And the pretzel rolls here are so good! But I think I need to make me some cinnamon sugar pretzels soon. π
These look great! I did want to ask why you used half white whole wheat flour and half regular whole wheat flour. I’m a big fan of white whole wheat and don’t ever use regular whole wheat flour anymore.
Hi Alyssa, you can totally use 100% white whole wheat flour. I was at a transition stage in my baking where I used white whole wheat in moderation and tried to use as much whole wheat flour as possible. Now that I know that the nutritional benefits of white whole wheat flour are the same as whole wheat flour, I mainly just use white whole wheat flour. It’ll make these pretzels even softer! π Happy Baking!