Making Pretzels!!!

Ben has become quite the baker. He loves to help me bake or cook anything. And he is getting to be quite a good helper. We love making chex mix (thank you to Nana for the great recipes--our fav. is the ranch flavored) And we just recently realized how much fun it is to make our own soft pretzels from scratch. And quite Ben friendly as well. :)

Using the measuring cup as a hat..


Pouring in the flour..



Ben likes to try EVERY ingredient. Even when I tell him it won't taste good...he insists. So here he is trying out the flour. Blech!

And the brown sugar..


A little flour accident..


Pouring in the salt..


Helping to stir the ingredients


Adding the yeast..


Mixing the ingredients again..


Ben didn't like getting the dough on his hands..


Waiting for the dough to rise..


Getting ready to roll out dough, and start cutting..


Ben helping to "cut" the pretzel strips..



Forming our dough into pretzel shapes..






The finished shapes...



And after they were baked...



Ben enjoying his pretzel..


Cute video:

For the recipe we used, go to : (copy and paste)

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Buttery-Soft-Pretzels/Detail.aspx

*** Note: We changed the recipe slightly, after reading some of the reviews. We only used 4 cups of flour, and 3 tsp. of yeast. The rest we did the exact as the recipe calls for. We also sprayed butter on top of the dough, right before we put them in the oven. Enjoy!!!