This recipe was great! I made these with my 3 1/2 year old daughter today and she had a blast! We actually made 8 regular pretzels and then used the dough for the other 4 to make cool shapes. We rolled the dough to about 1/8-1/4 inch and used cookie cutters to make shape pretzels. I baked them on a separate cookie sheet and decreased the time by about 2 minutes. She just thinks it's so cool to eat a pretzel "K" or "star". Thanks for the recipe!

kosher salt ruins is, just use reguar salt. if i could i woodn't give this reci pe any stars!!!! :(

This was so much fun to do! My recipe only yielded 5 pretzels =D The boyfriend and I did monster ones. For mine, I used 3 cups bread flour and 1 cup all purpose. I let the dough rise as a whole (not in its pretzel shape) on a cookie sheet, on a bit of buttered foil then I covered the dough with another bit of ungreased foil and THEN covered that with a kitchen towel. I sat the whole thing over a large bowl of hot water to help it rise. After we formed the giant pretzels, I baked them for a 5 minutes at 300 degrees and then boiled them. They were a lot easier to handle that way. I took them out of the bath and put them on a paper towel to kind of drain and then cooked them. As far as baking time, always watch your oven. The recipe says 12 minutes, and I did mine for 7. Oven times always differ so make sure you're in the room and you're SMELLING for doneness. Once you go "ooh, I smell pretzels" they're a minute or two from coming out. Anyway, They were better than the mall ones. My boyfriend and I enjoyed our spoils quite nicely. I've tried 2 other pretzel recipes that were 'quick and easy' and they just tasted rushed and doughy and not in a good way. Take the time to do it deliciously. <3

These are really yummy! After having the pretzels at the mall for a snack yesterday, I decided to try to make them at home. The recipe I used was very similar to this one. I added a bit more water to the dough, used 4t of baking soda in the water bath and baked them for 12 min at 400 degrees. I dipped some of them in melted butter and sprinkled them with coarse salt. The others were dipped in the butter and then in cinnamon and sugar. I made 12 med sized pretzels out of the batch.

I, like another reviewer, unfortunately tried the Mall Pretzels from this site first...we LOVED that recipe. This was much quicker to make but the other reviewer was right the other recipe is much better. This also didn't work very well...oven temp too high and it just didn't taste as good as the other one. We will keep the other one. Thanks for the post.

i tried this recipie 3 times they all came out like rocks...i love soft pretzels and will continue to look for soft pretzel recipies any help or suggestions would be nice

This was not very good, didn't even taste like a pretzel, it was more croissant-like.

I will give it a three because I do not wish to put anyone's recipe down. But as to my own experience I found it better to not boil the pretzel. I followed it except for that and they came out more mall type than if I had boiled then. I tryed both ways as my own opinion follow the recipe except the boiling part..delicious..thanks

Used this recipe with thawed out Rhodes Rolls dough and they were perfect!

Now that the baseball season has begun, I am always making this recipe for my Husband to enjoy. These pretzels are absolutely wonderful and extremly easy to make. They remain soft for quite some time and can be enjoyed over a couple of days.

I Had difficulty with this recipe, everything kept falling apart. they did taste good, they all got eaten.

WOW!! this is an AWESOME recipe!! we have made them twice now... the first time they stuck to the cookie sheet in the oven because the water (from boiling them) melted the crisco that i greased the pan with. but the second time they turned out beautiful - i lined the cookie sheet w/ waxed paper. worked great! def a keeper...

It's fantastic, i never get anything but compliments when i make this recipe with poeple always wanting more!

these pretzels are amazing i made them for my project and ended up eating all of them there just to delicious to describe try them out for yourself youl love um

This recipe was horrible! The water to flour ratio is not what it should be, and this so-called "dough" is more like murky water. Please have something done about this, I'm sure people have had the same problems with this recipe. Thank you, Dillon.

Yummy! I followed the measurements exactly and combined it all in my cuisinart (fast!). It makes a nice dough. After shaping I increased the rising time to at least a full hour. I also found that boiling for longer than 1 min. and flipping them half way through in a steady simmer resulted in the chewier consistency we all are looking for. I reduced baking to 7 min. or golden, brushed with melted butter while cooling and sprinkled with either salt or cinnamon-sugar.

Not that great. Didn't have the pretzel flavour i was hoping for, and they got hard pretty fast. Overall, bland-tasting.

These pretzels are absolutly wonderful. We used Bread flour instead of all purpose, they came out GREAT!!! For a really good treat coat with butter when you remove from the oven!!!!

I may have given these a better rating, had I not tried Mall Pretzels from this site first. These are quicker to make, but not near as good. The dough was tough to work with, it should rise for an hour first. When putting the pretzels in the baking soda water, I had one completely fall apart. I'm not sure I agree with the 475 degree temperature either. I had mine in for 9minutes, and they burned. They tasted okay, just more trouble to make than the Mall Pretzels. I will be using that recipe from now on.