Cinnamon Sugar Mini Pretzels

📝 Ingredients

• 350 g all purpose flour
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 6 g instant yeast
• 240 ml lukewarm milk ((can be lactose-free))
• 20 g unsalted butter (melted and cooled to room temperature)
• vegetable oil to cover the dough
• 750 ml hot water
• 4 tbsp bicarbonate of soda
• 100 g unsalted butter, (melted)
• 200 g brown sugar
• 1 tbsp ground cinnamon

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1--- For the dough ---
2. 2Put all the ingredients in a stand mixer's bowl and use the hook accessory to mix them up. Knead on the machine for 10min. If you're doing whits by hand then you need to knead for 15min.
3. 3Form a ball with the dough, cover in vegetable oil and let rest covered with a kitchend cloth so it can proof. This will take 60-90min or until you nee it's doubled in size. Ideally leave the dough in a warm place such as inside your oven with the light on or on top of the fridge.
4. 4Knock out the air from the dough and divide in 6 more or less equal pieces.
5. 5Stretch each piece making a snake-like shape. From that cut the pillos that will make our pretzel bites. At all times keep the dough as well as the bites under a kitchen cloth to prevent them from drying out.
6. 6Let proof 15min covered on the counter top.
7. 7--- For the bicarbonate of soda coating ---
8. 8Add the bicarbonate of soda to the water and dip a few pretzel pieces at a time for a couple of seconds.
9. 9Transfer them onto a baking tray with silpat or baking paper (ideally silpat). At this moment if you want to make them savoury you can sprinkle them with sesame seeds, coarse sea salt, oregano, cheese, etc.
10. 10In our case they go straight into the oven preheated at 200C por 8-10min or until golden.
11. 11--- For the cinnamon sugar coating ---
12. 12Mix the cinnamon and the sugar.
13. 13Dip the pretzel bites in butter and then cover with the cinnamon sugar mix.