Soft Pretzels

I found a great recipe for soft pretzels on Pinterest and decided to give it a shot the other day.  Oh my goodness are these pretzels delicious!  The recipe makes about 9 pretzels, maybe 10.  I didn't want to bake all 9 pretzels at one time because they taste best when you eat them immediately.  I ended up freezing the remaining 6 on some parchment paper on a baking pan.  I followed the recipe all the way to where you dip the pretzels into the baking soda water to rise some more, let them rise, then placed the ones I didn't want to bake until later, into the freezer.  When I went to bake the frozen pretzels I turned the oven onto 250 degrees.  When the oven heated to 250 degrees, I turned it off and placed a loaf pan on the bottom of the inside of the oven that was halfway full of water, then popped the tray of pretzels in to heat up.  This method creates a homemade proof box that you can also use to raise any bread with yeast before you bake it, instead of turning on the oven and setting the loaf pan on top to rise this is very quick and works great.  Here is the link to the recipe I used, there are great pictures to follow step by step.

These are the pretzels I made, they came out very soft and SO yummy!