Soft Pretzel Bowls

Last week got away from me. My bad. So today I've got two recipes!! Both of them can be found here. Making the bowls wasn't very hard, it's just a bit time consuming waiting for the dough to rise and all that good stuff. But I mixed everything up in my stand mixer, using my dough hook (ashamedly for the first time) and then plopped it onto my counter.

Yes, those are our cat's paws in the background. He likes to hop up and watch me cook. I kneaded it before I took this picture, too. Failed to mention that. Anyway, I let it rise and kneaded it some more before forming it into two not so attractive balls.

 The hardest part of this recipe probably comes in the putting your dough balls into the boiling baking soda and sugar water. Mine got pretty deformed and deflated.

At least, the one on the left really did. Yikes. I don't know if I can even call that a bowl now. After baking, they definitely look and smell like soft pretzels. Seriously, my apartment smells fabulous right now. I can't really give them a rating on taste right now as I'm waiting for dinner to make the soup and put the whole thing together. But, they really aren't as difficult as I was fearing they might be, so that is going in their favor at this point in the day. Stay tuned for part number two of this double kitchen adventure!