Chocolate Pretzel
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Two lengths of cocoa dough are shaped and baked on separate trays, joined into a giant pretzel and covered with chocolate icing.
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After finding a suitable recipe, a quick raid of the cupboards and the local Budgens provided all the ingredients necessary:
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Whack the margarine and sugar into a large bowl and cream with an electric whisk until creamy!
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Chocolate Pretzel: the archived recipe
Condensed from the original account by Ich bin ein Berliner, published 2006-05-25. The quantities and method are the contributor’s; this is not a new kitchen test.
Ingredients recorded
- 250g margarine
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 120ml milk
- 120g cocoa powder
- 500g flour
- For the frosting: 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 120g icing sugar
- 4 tablespoons melted margarine
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Every ingredient is measured in the account and the estimated cost was £3.00. The frosting quantities are for the pretzel as made; no total time beyond the 30 minutes chilling, the 15 minutes baking and the overnight hardening is given.
Method recorded
- Cream the margarine and sugar in a large bowl with an electric whisk until creamy.
- Mix in the eggs, vanilla and milk and keep whisking; the account admits it looks like scrambled egg gone wrong at this point.
- Sift in the cocoa and flour and mix until the dough clings to the whisks.
- Scrape the dough onto a sheet of foil and chill it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- With extra flour, roll the firmer dough into 2 long sausage shapes of equal length and lay them on 2 greased baking trays in curved shapes without breaking them.
- Cook in a preheated oven at 180 degrees C for about 15 minutes, then cool on the tray on a wire rack.
- Mix all the frosting ingredients together in a stainless steel bowl; any other bowl, the account says, will make it stick everywhere.
- Assemble the pretzel on a tray, using the frosting as cement at the joins, coat it in the frosting and leave overnight for the frosting to harden.
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The original account
What better way to spend the time for revising a German exam than creating a giant German-style snack? With sauerkraut and schnitzel being given the thumbs down, it had to be an über chocolate pretzel.
After finding a suitable recipe, a quick raid of the cupboards and the local Budgens provided all the ingredients necessary:
For the pretzel:
250g Margarine
100g Caster sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp of vanilla extract
120ml of milk
120g Cocoa powder
500g Flour
For the chocolate frosting:
4 tablespoons of Cocoa powder
120g icing sugar
4 tablespoons of melted margarine
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Estimated cost: £3.00
Method
Whack the margarine and sugar into a large bowl and cream with an electric whisk until creamy!
Mix in the egg, vanilla and milk, whilst trying to get action shot of mixing. Continue whisking until it looks like horrible scrambled egg gone wrong.
Sift in cocoa and flour, whilst taking another action shot!
Mix with whisk until the dough gets stuck to the whisks. Erm…
Scrape off dough and tip it out of bowl onto a sheet of foil (trying hard not to think what it looks like). Then put it in fridge 30 minutes and put feet up whilst learning about biotechnology and how to make soy sauce.
Take dough out of fridge. It should be a little firmer, but it still looks a bit wrong…Using some extra flour, roll dough out on work surface into 2 long sausage(?) shapes of equal lengths.
Place on 2 greased baking trays into curved shapes, trying not to let the dough break.
Cook in preheated oven at 180 degrees C for about 15 minutes. When done, take out, and cool on tray on a wire rack.
Make chocolate frosting by mixing all ingredients together in a stainless steel bowl (it must be stainless steel, or it will stick everywhere).
Assemble pretzel on a tray, making sure it doesn’t break (although the frosting does make a good pretzel cement). Coat in sticky chocolate frosting, and leave overnight to allow the frosting to harden.
Marvel at the überness of the pretzel. Then present it to a hungry German class where it will be devoured in less than ten minutes.
