Soft Pretzel Bites
Tessa Arias · handletheheat.com · 2025 · 80 pretzel bites (approximately)
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
Less salt than 91% of recipes and less butter than 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 91% of recipes: 0.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.7%, about half as much.
- Less butter than 77% of recipes: 2.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 7%, about half as much.
Ingredients (11)
- 1 packet (2 1/4 teaspoons) instant yeast*≈ 7 g
- 1 tablespoon light brown sugar≈ 14 g
- 1 1/2 cups warm water ((about 110°F))≈ 356 g
- 1 tablespoon (14 grams) cooled melted butter or neutral oil14 g
- 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt≈ 4.5 g
- 4 ¼ cups (540 grams) all-purpose flour540 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 6 cups water≈ 1422 g
- ¼ cup baking soda≈ 72 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 tablespoon water≈ 15 g
- Pretzel salt or coarse sea saltn/a
flour 540 gbatter 935 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 173 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Water66% · 62nd percentile · median 63%
- Butter2.6% · 22nd percentile · median 7%
- Sugar2.6% · 59th percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt0.8% · 7th percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.3% · 45th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 to 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
Keep exploring
Recipes most like this one
Nearest by baker's percentages: water, butter, sugar, salt, yeast.
Do something with it
Or browse all 173 soft pretzel recipes.