Pretzel Saturday and Sleeping Beauties

By Kevin Williams

EASY AMISH SOFT PRETZELS:  If you have never made homemade soft pretzels before, this is a great recipe to start with.  It is the recipe from our baking book back in 2011, LA Weekly lauded the pretzel recipe as one of the best. Give it a try here.

CARAMEL-WRAPPED CHOCOLATE DIPPED PRETZELS:  I stumbled into this recipe once in a most unlikely place, there was an elderly Brethren woman making these by hand in the back of her bakeshop which was tucked into her house.  Nothing really fancy about these, but she made them with such care...check it out here...

And lastly, not the best photo quality in the world, but as I was pinned on my soft yesterday, I thought I'd take a selfie of my "sleeping beauties."  I know this phase doesn't last forever, so I do try to enjoy every minute like this I can. Someday they'll grow up and Dad will be relegated to the sidelines.  But here is Beatrice and Aster napping on me....