With a basic package of refrigerator biscuits you can be cooking with kids making pretzel bites for snacks.
These easy pretzel bites are great for snacks to pack for school or as an after school snack. Also enjoy these on family movie night, it’s a quick snack you can make with the kids in about 35 minutes. DONE!
When you are stuck in the house and/or need something to occupy the kids this is an easy kitchen project to keep the kids engaged. They will not get bored and they will see and taste what they’ve made before everyone has a chance to wash their hands and clean up the table.
Our little snow storm yesterday closed the schools. Kids are never bored in the snow but it was a very wet snow and not ‘play friendly’. The kids were soaked in 5 minutes.
I kept the boys occupied yesterday while waiting for the unexpected snow storm to wind down. Actually they kept me occupied – they did the research and I supervised.
While we waited for the snow to stop we decided to make quick and easy pretzels to snack on.
They quickly ‘googled’ how to make pretzels and found one on the Pillsbury site that used crescent rolls.
We didn’t have crescent rolls but we had refrigerator biscuits. We improvised with the biscuits and in less than 35 minutes we had a bowl of soft pretzel bites for snack.
This cooking with kids pretzel bites recipe is very easy to make when you need a quick snack OR for game watching on the weekends. You can make a nice size bowl full of pretzels bites with 2 or 3 rolls of biscuit dough.
- 1-3 rolls of refrigerator biscuit dough
- 1 beaten egg
- 2 tbls. course salt
- 6 cups water, bring to boil
- 2 tbls. baking soda
- Fill a 3 to 4 quart saucepan with water and bring to a boil.
- Roll out the dough into long strips and lay them out on the parchment paper.
- Cut the strips into 2 inch pieces.
- Add the baking soda to the boiling water and drop 6 to 10 pieces of the dough into the water for about 20-30 seconds or until they rise to the top. Remove with slotted spoon and place on paper towels.
- Continue until all the dough has been 'bathed' in the water.
- Brush with the beaten egg and sprinkle with course salt.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes or until they are golden brown.
- Remove from oven and place in a bowl. Serve with mustard dip or your favorite dipping sauce.
The kids enjoy rolling out the dough to make the pretzel strips, I then cut the strips into pieces using a butter knife. If the kids are old enough you can supervise them while they cut the strips.
I did the dipping in the boiling water and removal. After removing the dough from the water bath place on paper towel and then onto the parchment lined baking sheet. The kids can brush on the egg wash and sprinkle with the salt. Then place the baking sheet into the preheated oven to bake for 15 minutes.
While waiting for the pretzels to bake the kids can gather together the mustard and whatever other dipping sauces they like to have ready when the pretzel bites are cool.
You can use whatever you have in the fridge for dipping, it’s really just a matter of what you like. One of us likes to dip in cinnamon sugar, I won’t say who . . . but sweet and salty works for me….!!!
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Enjoy this cooking with kids pretzel bites recipe and have fun with the kids in the kitchen. It’s a great way to perk everyone up on a snowy or rainy day and do something a little different!
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I like baking with kids too! Especially my daughter loves to bake! It is a great way to keep them occupied. These pretzel bites look amazing!
Hi Divya, this is a great recipe to make with the kids. The older ones can be more creative and make pretzel shapes if you have the time.
I love these, I am a huge soft, hard, any kind of pretzel fan– I needed a good recipe that I can trust to make them again as I lost mine.
Thanks for sharing
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This is a very quick and easy recipe to make at midnight when you are looking for a pretzel. I have a few soft pretzel recipes you can try beside this one.
These look super fun to make with kids! Can’t wait to try!
Hi Lori, they were very easy and the kids did have fun.
My little ones will go crazy for these pretzels though I must admit they may have to compete with Mom! 🙂
I know what you mean Abigail. Thanks for stopping by.
These look so tasty! I love that salted pretzel dough. I just want to eat that bucket full of yums in the worst way!! Great pic!
Thanks so much Diane, grampy ate a whole batch himself, not all at once, but he enjoyed them.
Sounds like you had a fun day with the kiddies even with all that wet snow. What a great idea to use store bought dough. When in a pinch…improvise! YUM!
We did have a fun time KC and improvising is something we do often when we are stuck in the house. This was a quick project and they had a chance to get back out to play the snow.
Cooking with kids is a great activity not only for them but for us too! I love the pretzels you made!
Thanks so much Katerina. I love spending time in the kitchen with my grandsons, we both learn a lot from each other and we always have a lot of fun.
Pretzel bites are always my weakness when I’m at the mall. I will make these myself since I try to stay away from mall.
We love making pretzels at home. I think the only pretzels that are better are the ones from the ‘push carts’ on the NYC streets.
Oh Joanne, my granddaughters will adore making these adorable pretzel bites! I can’t wait to bake these with them next time I visit!
Hi Linda, this was a very fun project and not much of a mess. I hope you get a chance to try this next time.
What a fun post! First of all, I just love surprise snow days with the kiddos – we just had one this Tuesday, and it was such a wonderful treat! And one of my favorite things do together is cook … keeps ’em happily busy, and nourished, too! These look delicious – my kids would love them, for sure!
You are so right Shelley, the boys are always totally engaged and we both learn a lot from each other. These were a hit even with grampy.
A fun activity with a treat at the end, these look delicious
Thanks so much Janette!
Such fun. Can we keep them to ourselves?
Oh Absolutely Peter, Enjoy!
This sounds like a perfect recipe for kids to help make 🙂 Sounds really yummy too. I love that they are just in bites so there’s no fiddly folding!
Definitely a fun recipe the kids enjoyed making. Thanks for stopping by Nicole.
such a fun thing to make and eat
We had a lot of fun making these. It’s always fun to cook with the kids.