New Year's Pretzel
Toast the new year with a deliciously sweet New Year's Pretzel. Filled with layers of cinnamon and sweet sugar, this ooey gooey sweet bread is a treat!Tradition says that eating a piece of this pretzel in the new year will bring you good luck.
Ingredients
- 530 grams bread flour 4 cups
- 230 grams warm milk 1 cup (Fairlife is lactose free)
- 100 grams sugar 1/2 cup
- 6 grams active dry yeast 1 1/2 teaspoons
- 6 grams vanilla 1 1/2 teaspoon
- 4 grams salt 1/2 teaspoon
- 1 egg
- 56 grams vegan butter (or butter of your choice) 4 tablespoons or 1/4 cup
Pretzel Filling
- 56 grams butter (vegan butter for lactose free) 4 tablespoons
- 50 grams white sugar 1/4 cup
- 100 grams brown sugar 1/2 cup
- 11 grams cinnamon 1 1/2 tablespoon
Brush on Top
- 15 grams butter (vegan butter for lactose free) 1 Tablespoon
Maple Frosting
- 100 grams powdered sugar 1 cup
- 75 grams pure maple syrup 1/4 cup
- 2 grams vanilla 1/2 teaspoon
- 13 grams milk 1 T (Fairlife milk is lactose free)
Instructions
- Warm the milk in the microwave for about 40 seconds.
- Pour the milk, sugar and yeast into the bowl of a stand mixer and whisk.
- Add in the salt, egg, and vanilla and whisk until combined.
- Add the flour and mix with the dough hook for about 1 to 2 minutes on low until combined.
- Cut the butter into pieces and add to the mixer. Raise the mixer to 4, or medium, and knead with the dough hook for about 4 minutes. The dough will slap the bowl and look greasy. The butter may pop out. Let the mixer run and it will come together. The dough is done when it no longer sticks to the side of the bowl and is smooth.
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let rise until doubled in size, about 1 to 2 hours.
- Once doubled, place the dough on parchment paper and roll into a rectangle or oval as thin as you can.
- Spread warmed butter on the dough. Then sprinkle the dough with sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
- Roll up the dough starting with the long side. Once rolled, stretch the dough out and form into a 'U'. Take the left side and place it over the right, and take the right side and place it down over the left (see pictures) to form a pretzel shape.
- Place the pretzel on parchment and then on a baking sheet. Loosely cover with plastic wrap and let it rise for a 2nd time for about 1 - 2 hours.
- Once it's puffy, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.Melt 1 T of butter and brush it on top of the pretzel.
- Bake the pretzel for 20 -25 minutes until golden.
- While the pretzel cools, whisk the ingredients for frosting.
- Place the cooled pretzel on it's serving dish and pour the frosting over the pretzel.If you like it less sweet, drizzle just a bit of the frosting. If you like it sweet, spread all of the frosting.Enjoy!