If you’re looking for some yummy ideas for your next road trip or camping expedition, enlist the kids to do some baking. Before our most recent camping trip, we decided to try making soft pretzels to take with us. My daughter took the lead on this one – she ended up doing most of the work and her pretzels looked far more ‘pretzel like’ than mine did! Maybe you need small hands to make a perfect pretzel?
We used this recipe:
2 1/4 tsp dry yeast (1 packet)
2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
3 cups white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 egg, beaten
coarse salt
- Dissolve the yeast in 1 cup warm water and add salt and sugar
- Blend in the flour
- Knead dough until smooth
- Cut dough into small pieces and roll into ropes. Shape into pretzel shapes
- Place on lighly greased cookie sheets. Brush with beaten egg. Sprinkle with coarse salt
- Bake immediately at 425 for 12 to 15 minutes
Here’s our pretzel maker hard at work:
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Note: you don’t need to sit like a pretzel to make pretzels, but maybe that’s why her pretzels looked so good?!! You can roll the dough in your hands or on the board, depending on which works better for you.
Egg wash and salt sprinkling were fun for her and easy for any age! You might want to dust some of the salt off after the kids sprinkle, so that they’re not over-salted
Our finished product – we needed to test them right out of the oven and they were YUMMY!