Easy Homemade Soft Pretzels

The weather this weekend is what we've been waiting for.  Everyone had an extra skip in their step. There were more smiles around town & it was just a great time to be living in Hoboken. We picked up some bourbon molasses mustard by one of my fave brands Stonewall Kitchen.  The girl at checkout agreed that it looked good & asked what we were going to eat it with.  I hadn't thought about it but I knew I needed it in my fridge.

After some lunch & strolling Chris & I visited the Pilsener Haus & Biergarten (aka the beer garden in Hoboken). They have the best & biggest pretzels I've ever had & seen.  If I hadn't eaten lunch just before I'm certain I would have devoured one all by myself. When I got home I was still thinking about them. And then a light went off. I could eat my new mustard with some soft pretzels.  So I decided to make my own for the love of my mustard of course.

I found this easy soft pretzel recipe on Williams-Sonoma's blog. The recipe calls for 7 ingredients. One of which is water so that doesn't really count. The 5 of the 6 other recipes you probably already have in your pantry if you've ever baked something or cooked in your life.  The one thing that you may have to remember to buy is the active yeast - which comes in an easy little packet in the baking aisle of your grocery store, so pick up a few on your next trip. 

If you don't want to make this incredibly easy dough I'm pretty certain you could use store bought pizza dough and use the same method of making them.