Happy St. Patrick’s day! I did a lot of baking yesterday for the office. I made delicious delicious soda bread.
A recipe courtesy of my boyfriend’s mother so unfortunately I don’t feel comfortable sharing it with the internet. But just look at how delicious it looks!
What I will share with you all is this amazing guinness pretzel bites recipe.
Look at how delicious they look. I discovered these from Baked by Rachel and really wanted to bring them to work to share so I broke them up into bite sized pieces. And then I hoarded about a 3rd of the bites because they ended up being so good I didn’t want to commit to sharing.
Guinness Pretzel Bites
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup warm water - about 115-120 degrees - warm to the touch but not scalding
- 2 1/4 tsp or 1 packet active dry yeast
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 4 - 4 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 3/4 cup Guinness
- 1/3 cup baking soda
- 8 cups water
- 1 egg
- Course sea salt
Instructions
- In a large measuring cup, lightly stir together water, yeast and sugar. Allow to rest for 5-10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl sift together 4 cups of flour and salt.
- Measure out Guinness and melt butter.
- When yeast has proofed (bubbled up, proves its active - if nothing happened, repeat step one with new yeast), slowly add to dry ingredients and mix, followed by Guinness and butter.
- Add additional flour as needed until dough is no longer sticky and is handleable.
- Shape dough into a smooth ball, transfer to a large greased bowl. Flip dough once to coat completely with oil.
- Cover and allow to rise in a warm location for one hour or until doubled in size.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Prepare two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Bring 8 cups of water to a boil with baking soda. In a small bowl, beat one egg with 1 tbsp of water.
- Divide dough into small balls - I made about 40.
- Carefully place pretzels in boiling water in batches of about 8 depending on your pan size, being careful not to overcrowd, for 30 seconds. Use a spatula to remove the pretzels from the water, placing back on parchment lined baking sheets.
- Brush each boiled pretzel well with egg wash and immediately sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes until nice and golden
- These are best warm out of the oven but will also be delicious next day. Try tossing them back in the oven for 5 minutes to warm them up!