Cinnamon Pretzels With Icing

You’ll love cinnamon pretzels with icing and it’s a very uncomplicated, straightforward recipe.

Who wants to spend more time in the kitchen than they have to, so you can dazzle with some very basic dough and icing!

Cinnamon Pretzels with Icing

Pretzels are delicious and cinnamon pretzels are even better.

But the best part is making iced pretzels for new year’s because that sweet icing atop a pretzel is an amazing treat!

If you really don’t want to make a homemade dough then my 1-Ingredient pretzel with icing is the way to go!

My cinnamon bread recipe is always one of my most popular, and there’s a good reason, it always works.

I have used that recipe over and over for the year and my readers write in and tell me they love it too!

The ingredients are a perfect mix of flavor in the dough.

My grandmother knew her way around bread dough and I have been blessed enough to be around her when she made bread.

While she is 99 years old, she still makes bread if you can believe that!

Today, let’s create cinnamon pretzels with icing. I will guide you through both pretzel-making and my recipe.

Cinnamon Pretzels With Icing

Iced pretzels for new Year’s is one way to use this recipe, but use it throughout the year for a special treat instead of plain old cinnamon bread.

If you have been in a mall and smelled the wafting scent of cinnamon rolls, you know it is addictive.

Since we can’t be at the mall all the time, and since I prefer homemade over anything store-bought I created my own cinnamon pretzels with icing.

Tips For Pretzel Making

While I worked on granite countertops, I will advise on the thing no matter WHAT countertop you are working on: do not use too much flour, you do want the dough to be tacky and adhere just a bit to the counter when making ‘ropes’ to create the pretzels.

Making different sizes of pretzels is perfect because you’ll have one for every and anyone and not everyone wants large cinnamon iced pretzels so making a few different sizes is perfection.

Also, forming pretzels can be challenging, but they don’t have to be perfect, mine never are, but again, I am not a baker, just a mom making food for my family.

How to make different sizes of cinnamon pretzels with icing

You will see that I made many different sizes of pretzels. You can too.

First of all, I doubled the batch of cinnamon bread below.

Then, I only let the bread machine make the dough, as I did NOT want bread.

After the dough was ready, I rolled it out and cut it into 8 EVEN Pieces.

I then rolled those pieces into long 3 foot ropes.

Sometimes I use the 3 feet, other times, I cut the 3 feet in 1/2 and then again rolled another 3 feet out of it.

This allowed me to make large and small in the case that I plan on making and sharing by door drop off at friends and family.

Below you can see a very large pretzel it is the size of a large baking pan and it puffs up a bit when baking.

The results of sizing the dough vary for iced pretzels for new year’s

So when I cut the pieces and then rolled them again, the pretzels were thinner and yielded a larger number (obviously ) of pretzels with the same amount of dough.

The key to this is working with a pretzel size you know someone will eat without waste.

Versatility is key, so you just have to decide if you want many thinner ones or if you want a 1/2 batch of small and maybe one large one?

Sometimes I make bigger ones for the New Year’s Holiday Pretzels and other times smaller ones for brunches.

Again, you can alternate the size by cutting and rolling into ropes.

The perfect cinnamon dough every time

This is my dough for cinnamon bread and what I can tell you from the dough is read my Pinterest and see that it has over 1 million (way more than that) people who have used and then comments in the thousands of continual success in making and baking this dough.

The dough is my grandmother’s recipe and so easy you won’t believe it!

If your dough does not look like this after you make it, your results will NOT be at all the same.

The dough has a sticky, yet does not stick feeling. It is so easy to work with.

Also, if you add more cinnamon into the bread dough-making process (in the bread maker) the dough will be more ‘cinnamon-y’ flavored.

Adjust the flavor as you prefer, but don’t over-add cinnamon because you can dry the dough out as well. Remember you can add cinnamon and vanilla flavor to the icing.

Since your oven will be preheated to 400°F it will quickly bake the pretzels to 200° F internally.

In fact, this will only be about 10 minutes.

Do not over-bake the cinnamon pretzels or the dough will dry. Don’t underbake but please take them out before they brown or you won’t enjoy these!

Cinnamon Bread Dough Recipe to make iced pretzels for new year’s

These are the perfect iced pretzels for new year’s and they are a symbol of good luck.

You can, however, make these any time of the year as they are always a welcome treat.

I do suggest if you are making them, keep them smaller so one person can consume them.

Remember, I doubled mine, so the image you are looking at reflects this.

I managed about 12 Pretzels of various sizes and could easily have created many more, but I did not keep splitting the dough.

If you want the same size, measure the first piece and then use it as your guide.

Method to form the cinnamon pretzel with icing. Rolling the dough

Take on a piece of dough (to a non-floured surface, remember you want ‘tacky’) and roll it into a 3-foot rope.

At this point, it is up to you to decide if you want a Large pretzel or if you want to divide the dough in half and make smaller pretzels.

Of course, you can always do a few of each, variety is the spice of life!

Pretzel Shaping

• Start with a horseshoe shape.
• Make sure it is even.
• You can also roll this rope longer if you want, I am working with 1.5 feet in this image.

• Next, you are going to criss-cross the ends of the horseshoe, like you are braiding.
• Also, pay attention to the circle above it as this will be the pretzel.

• Next, you will criss-cross again and then bring the ends up to the top of the pretzel as pictured below.
• Then fix the pretzel so it is shaped better.
• Also, you will fix these once they are on the tray because when you move them, they do not stay shaped.

• You could make them on the tray, but I prefer some workspace.
• Now make sure to watch my video for learning how to make a pretzel, it’s easy.
• Make a ‘u’, then ‘x’ the dough forming a circle, then ‘x’ dough again and reverse cross to you.
• That’s it, but much easier to watch in the video!
• Let the dough rise (covered) for about 1/2 hour, this is the second rise and they will double in size.
• Bake at 400°F for 10-15 minutes (ovens vary) and the internal temperature of 200°F.
• Once lightly browned and temped, remove and allow to cool.

Icing for the Cinnamon pretzels with icing

Make my icing, it’s really easy and delicious and a must for iced pretzels for new year’s!

You can also change the color of the icing if you want to match the occasion.

Allow these to cool and then ice with the easy cream cheese frosting recipe I created.

Add color with gel icing or serve plain, the possibilities are endless.

 

You can make a cinnamon sugar dusting that tastes amazing as well. Enjoy! ~ DANA XO