Binging with Babish: Michael Scott's Pretzel from The Office

-Thank you. -Hi, please tell me you have a Sweet Pretzel left. -We do.

We have 18 different toppings.

We have sweet glaze, cinnamon sugar, chocolate, white chocolate, fudge, M&Ms, caramel dip, mint chip, chocolate chip,

marshmallows, nuts, toffee nuts, coconut, peanut butter drizzle, Oreos, sprinkles, cotton candy bits, and powdered sugar.

Is there any way that you could do all,

all of them? -The works you got it. -Alright!

Hey, what's up guys, welcome back to Binging with Babish, where this week

we're taking on a caloric

carpet-bomb that only Michael Scott could have dreamt up: the 18 topping pretzel, the elements of which are laid here before you. The toppings are

obviously very silly, but they give us the opportunity to learn how to make soft, buttery, shopping-mall style pretzels.

We're gonna start by heating 2 cups of whole milk to 110 degrees Fahrenheit and adding 2 packets of active dry yeast.

We're then gonna let that sit for about 5 minutes or until it turns a little frothy and bubbly.

Put it in the bowl of a stand mixer and add 6 tablespoons of light brown sugar,

three and a quarter cups of flour, one cup of bread flour, two teaspoons of salt, and four

tablespoons of cooled melted butter. Affix your dough hook, drop it down, and knead for ten minutes. You want a tacky