SALTY CHOCOLATE PRETZEL

Use SUPREME Cake Flour to produce delicious Pretzels.

SALTY CHOCOLATE PRETZEL

General Info

Preparation: 9 hours
Baking: 15 minutes
Ready In: 9 hours 15 minutes
Servings: Dependent on size of pretzel shapes

Ingredients

  • 1 kg SUPREME Cake Wheat Flour
  • 260 ml Milk (lukewarm)
  • 260 ml Water (lukewarm)
  • 80 g Butter
  • 1 tbsp Brown sugar
  • 2 tsp Instant dried yeast
  • 2 tbsp Salt

FOR THE BOILING SOLUTION:

  • 1.5 L Water
  • 4 tbsp Bicarbonate of soda

FOR TOPPING

  • Coarse sea salt
  • 400 g Dark Chocolate
  • Sugar decorations

Recipe Instructions

  1. Add 100g of Supreme Cake Wheat Flour, all of the yeast and the water into a bowl.
  2. Mix, cover with cling film and leave in a warm place for 5 hours to create the yeast flavour.
  3. After that, add the rest of the flour, salt, milk, malt extract and melted butter. Mix and knead the mixture to make a firm dough (around 10 minutes) and leave for approximately 1½ hours or until a point pushed in gently springs back.
  4. When ready, knock the dough back and start forming shapes.
  5. For the traditional shape: Roll the dough out to be a long (40cm) rope with the middle 5cm bulged to a diameter of around 3 cm. Bring the two ends together, overlap them, twist, and bring back to go over the main body. Almost like tying a knot. Leave for 30 minutes uncovered in a warm room to rise and develop.
  6. Bring the 1.5 L water to the boil in a large pot and add the bicarbonate of soda.
  7. Once the dough has risen, place the trays next to a cold window with some wind blowing. A fan can be used if there is no breeze. This develops a skin on the pretzels, which gives that special chewy texture. Once done, drop the shaped dough into the boiling solution (one at a time) until they float (about 5 seconds). Then fish the pretzels out of the water and lay on a baking tray greased with butter. Sprinkle with sea salt and slash the dough at the top-back of each pretzel.
  8. Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes.
  9. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pot of boiling water. Dip the top part of the pretzel in the chocolate and place onto a tray. Sprinkle with the decoration and allow to set in a cool place.