On Sunday night I wanted to make something, but I didn't really feel like going to the store because I had just gone a few hours earlier and spent wayyyyy too much money. Whenever I don't feel like going to the store to buy ingredients for a new recipe, I end up making some sort of bread product. I didn't feel like making just bread though, so I settled on soft pretzels!
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mall-Pretzels/Detail.aspx
I loosely followed the above recipe with a few modifications:
1)I tried to make them healthy, so I substituted whole wheat flour for all-purpose flour
2) I accidentally put 2 cups of water into the dough (instead of 1.5). The 2 cups of water was for the part when you dip the pretzels in baking soda with water! woops.... Didn't really seem to matter though.
3) I used my bread machine on the dough cycle because I accepted my inability to make dough.
Unfortunately, Gertrude decided NOT to cooperate. Because the pretzels are fairly large, I had to do two batches. I was very unhappy to see that the bottoms of the entire first batch were black... great, thanks Gertrude. I also did not have any parchment paper, so that could have been part of the problem (I guess I shouldn't blame it allllll on Getrude). Anyways, I took the burnt ones out and put the new batch in. As I was waiting for the second batch to cook, I decided to try and scape off the black bottoms of the first batch because I thought the pretzels were salvageable. I was surprisingly successful at this scraping effort, and as I was sitting there all pleased with my ability to save the pretzels, I realized I had forgotten about the batch in the oven.... big mistake. Those ones were all black on the bottom and I pretty much gave up on trying to save them.
So, I ended up covering my six salvaged pretzels with melted butter with cinnamon sugar.... I put a fairly generous amount on to make up for the fact they may still taste a bit burnt. Luckily they were pretty good...
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