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Eat the Rainbow: Rainbow Pretzels

Eat the Rainbow: Rainbow Pretzels

I’ve been on a quest to try and taste all the rainbow foods I possibly can. While the vast majority of the recipes I’ve tried are from cookbooks I own, occasionally I will try some recipes I’ve come across online.

Making rainbow pretzels is pretty straightforward – but it does take some time.

  1. Find a recipe for soft pretzels. I followed this one for sourdough pretzels on the King Arthur website since I had some leftover sourdough discard I wanted to use.
  2. After the dough has rested, separate it into equal portions: one for each color.
  3. Knead the color into each portion until it’s uniform. This is the most time consuming part – it took me about 10 minutes per color.
I used pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
  1. After you’ve got your dyed dough balls, roll each one into a rope and arrange them one after the other:
In retrospect, I should have made longer ropes first. At this point, each rope was still too thick and made it difficult to twist. I at least got a pretty rainbow flag picture though =)
  1. Twist and roll the ropes together until you have a large rainbow rope/log.
  2. Break this larger rope/log into equal portions. It comes down to whether you want to make smaller pretzels or larger ones.
  3. Roll each of those portions into a rope and shape into a pretzel.
I learned that making uniform pretzels takes some practice!
I was worried that the colors would blend and turn into grey or another dark color when twisting and rolling them into ropes. I was pleasantly surprised to find this didn’t happen!
  1. Follow the baking directions in your recipe.
One of the baked pretzels.

I was surprised that the pretzels maintained their vibrant colors after being baked. I used neon food gel colors and wonder if that’s why!

Rainbow pretzels can be time consuming to make depending on how many colors you use – but it’s worth it! Even though they taste like regular pretzels, the rainbow colors make them taste more magical somehow.

The more I experiment with various rainbow recipes, the more I find that part of the magic is simply the process of making something and working with your hands. If you’re looking for similar recipes, you might like making rainbow bagels or your own rainbow sourdough bread.

Meri

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