hey everyone its James from fun foods and today I'm gonna show how to make
these bacon cheesy pretzel bites now these are a lot of fun to do and very
easy to make so keep watching and I'll show you step by step how to make these
now the first we're going to do is start off with a mixing bowl and to that I'm
gonna add some warm water this is 3/4 of a cup of warm water you want the water
to be between 110 and 115 degrees because we don't want to kill the yeast
next to sprinkle in two teaspoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt then we
have one and a half teaspoons of yeast sprinkle that in there and we're just
gonna let this sit for five minutes until it foams up after about five
minutes your yeast should have foamed up a bit that tells you that it's active
and it's working now what we're going to do is we're gonna add two and 1/4 cups
of flour to this and we're also going to add one tablespoon of melted butter and
I'm going to mix this using a stand mixer you could do it by hand but it
will take you a while so at this stage your dough should have been pulling away
from your mixing bowl and when that happens that means your dough is ready
so we can just take this out clump it off make it one big ball I have a
separate clean Bowl right here I put a little bit of vegetable oil in there not much
just enough to spread it around and I'm going to just take this dough and form
it into one big ball folding underneath and we're gonna plop it right in there
we're gonna cover this up and we want to leave it in a warm place for anywhere
between 45 minutes an hour now I have a large pot it's filled with three quarts
of water that's 12 cups and I'm going to bring this to a rapid boil I'm actually
gonna do it on the stove so I'll have this surface to work on my dough now our
dough is done it's been almost an hour and I am just going to take this out and
as you see the dough has risen it's doubled in size we can pull this out of
here and put it on our workstation next we just want to divide this dough into
four different pieces here and we can go half of that we'll make it eight pieces
total now I've decided to divide these up again so that would be 16 total
pieces then I've cut them too now what you want to do is just take each piece
roll it into a ball almost like a meat ball set it down right there we'll
flatten it out a bit almost like a little mini pizza
and I precooked some bacon so I chopped it up and I'm gonna put a couple little
pieces of bacon in here because everything goes good with bacon right so
do that and I have all different kinds of cheeses
I have munster cheese I have mozzarella cheese and I have some cheddar cheese so
on this one I think I'm gonna go with just cheddar so I'm gonna put a little
bit of this cheddar on here when I say a little bit I mean a lot and now what I'm
going to do is fold this in on itself
just like so
there we go we have a little nugget so I'm just gonna take this and put this on
a baking sheet and then we'll move on from there now you can put this any way
you want you put whatever kind of cheese you want on each of these you can put a
bunch of different cheeses if you'd like and I'm gonna do a bunch of different
combinations here now what we need to do is just place these on a baking sheet
and we're gonna put them in some boiling water with baking soda and we're gonna
get these all ready to go okay so now what we're gonna do is dip these in our
baking soda and water solution I'm gonna put quite a few in do about four out of
time
and have it in there about two minutes or so then you can just pull them out
and put them back on your baking sheet you should see that they've puffed up a
bit and after they've been in their baking soda bath we'll call it what I'm
going to do is I just took one large egg and a little bit of water about a
teaspoon of water mixed it up really good this is gonna be our egg wash we're
just going to coat each one of these with that just going to give it that
nice golden brown look that all pretzels have
you have to do that I just have some large salt here sprinkle some of that on
each one and then take this put this in the oven at 450 degrees for about 10 to
14 minutes
and after about 11 minutes this is what they look like they look perfect now
these I do suggest eating really hot because the cheese melts and you can
even see some of the cheese coming out of this one here well now it's time for
the taste test I'm going to bite into this one that I already cut open and
check it out and see how good it is
hmm it's good I like that you have that saltiness on
the top the pretzel taste all that cheese and then bacon well thanks
everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed watching you make these bacon cheesy
pretzel bites there are a lot of fun to make and they're absolutely delicious I
hope you get a chance to make them for yourself sometime and if you do please
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