Monkey Princess makes pretzels

annie1992

11 years ago

The Monkey Princess decided that we needed to learn to make those yummy soft pretzels that she can get at the school cafeteria. Um.....yeah. Anyway, off we went to the King Arthur website and found a "quick and easy" recipe for pretzel bites.

It was pretty much quick and easy, stir the dough, knead it, let it rest in a bag for 30 minutes. Make ropes, cut into pieces, soak in soda water, then transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake.

Mixing worked well...

So did the kneading part, and the resting. We made it into ropes, soaked it in the soda water and put it onto the greased parchment and baked it. The lovely golden brown pretzels got brushed with butter in preparation for salt on half and cinnamon sugar on half.

OK, now take them off the parchment. Yeah, they'll come right off. Or not. Mostly not, any we got removed had paper stuck to the bottom. She finally just took a serrated knife, cut the pretzels leaving the stuck bottoms, and then rolled the pretzels in her toppings.

They were very good and we'd make them again, but the next time we'll just put them onto a well greased baking sheet so that we can use a spatula to scrape them off without the layer of paper.

Annie

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mustangs81
11 years ago
MP is amazing...beautiful too!
party_music50
11 years ago
awww.... that sucks when you go through all that work and it sticks or breaks or something else goes horribly wrong. Glad they were good! One of these days I'm going to experiment with making GF pretzels. If anyone else has tried that, I'd love to hear your 2-cents.
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Lars
11 years ago
I eat pretzels frequently and especially like pumpernickel pretzels, but I've never made them - very impressed!
I would recommend using Silpat on the baking sheet - that's what I use when I make biscotti.

Lars
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
11 years ago
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I think these two girls look very much alike.

dcarch
sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
11 years ago
That is so great. To choose something to make and have a partner, (grandma) to help make that happen. AND have some bumps in the road with the parchment and still enjoy the outcome. An incredible learning experience.

-why did it stick? not sure but maybe the sugars?

Not had that problem very often. When i ordered my parchment from webstarant (sp), i did have difficulty deciding being so many to choose from. I have a box of a thousand...adore that they fit my 1/2 sheet pans flat. (no more rolls to tear off)

Super cool that you made pretzels together.
annie1992
Original Author
11 years ago
Sleevendog, I think she's decided that the dough was still a bit wet from the soaking, and so made the paper soggy, and when they hit the hot oven they stuck. I don't know, but I do think we would be better off just using a greased baking sheet. I told her that's why people try recipes first, so if something unexpected happens, you figure it out and fix it. Sometimes it takes more than once. She was fine with that, and happy to make more pretzels, and her brother enthusiastically agreed, as his job is eating them! We'll be trying gluten free soon, I think, since her mother is celiac and we're working on adapting favorite recipes.

Dcarch, who is that second girl, she does resemble the Princess (or perhaps the Princess resembles her).

Cathy, I think she's pretty amazing too, but she doesn't smile enough. She has one crooked front tooth and will need braces and she's starting to be self conscious about it. It's the age, I guess.

party-music, when we're baking for "home", we don't really care if the results are pretty as long as they taste good, so it was still fine. It's just an excuse to bake some more, but I like it better when they come out perfect for her. I'm usually more disappointed than she is, she just sets about figuring out why it happened and how to keep it from happening again.

Lars, pumpernickel pretzels sound really good, we'll have to try them too, thanks for the idea. It's way more fun baking with someone than baking by yourself, although somehow I always get the clean up duty. Hmmm.....

Annie
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
11 years ago
Haha!

Young Martha S. (In case you hate Martha, it's meant to be a compliment)

dcarch
annie1992
Original Author
11 years ago
LOL, dcarch, I really don't like Martha S, my girls even bought me a plaque for the kitchen once that said "Martha Stewart doesn't live here". (grin) Still, I know that Martha was a model when she was younger and has managed to make at least a living wage, what with her illegal stock market activities and all, so I'll take it as the compliment it was meant to be.

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Islay Corbel
11 years ago
You tell her from another forum member - she's quite lovely!
annie1992
Original Author
11 years ago
Thank you, Islay. I showed her this and she thinks she looks nothing like Martha S at all, but she does like her shirt, LOL.

Annie

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