Dots Copycat Pretzel Food

DOT'S PRETZEL RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 250°. Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
• Measure out the pretzels into a large bowl.
• Melt and pour the butter over the pretzels. Stir to coat evenly.
• In a small bowl, combine the powdered buttermilk, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne pepper and black pepper. Stir the seasonings together.
• Sprinkle the seasonings onto the pretzels while stirring to coat evenly.
• Arrange on the prepared cookie sheet in a single layer.
• Bake at 250° for 20 minutes. Allow the pretzels to cool before eating.

AUNTIE ANNE'S PRETZELS - COPYCAT

Steps:

• Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve.
• Add sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic.
• Let rise at least 1/2 hour.
• While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 tbsp baking soda.
• Be certain to stir often.
• After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape.
• Dip pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet.
• Allow pretzels to rise again.
• Bake in oven at 450 for about 10 minutes or until golden.
• Brush with melted butter.
• Toppings: After you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt.
• Or for Auntie Anne's famous Cinnamon Sugar, try melting a stick of butter in a shallow bowl (big enough to fit the entire pretzel) and in another shallow bowl make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
• Dip the pretzel into the butter, coating both sides generously.
• Then dip again into the cinnamon mixture.
• Notes: The longer and thinner you can make the dough rope, the more like Auntie Anne's they will be.

DOT'S HONEY MUSTARD PRETZELS

Steps:

• Preheat smoker or oven to 250 degrees F. Melt butter in the microwave, then add honey to that bowl and microwave again for 30 seconds or until warmed. Add all other ingredients into that bowl and whisk together.
• Pour pretzels into a bowl and pour this mixture on top. Toss together until nicely coated. Pour on to a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper and spread out as much as possible so they overlap the least.
• Lay on grate in smoker or on middle shelf in oven and cook for 30 minutes. Move them around halfway thru with a spatula to rotate. Take out, cool, taste and add salt if desired and enjoy.