Pumpkin Pretzel Bites With Vanilla Dipping Glaze (Video)

Pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves combine with our classic pretzel bites recipe to make pumpkin pretzel bites! Dip in vanilla glaze. This is the perfect recipe for fall. This post contains an affiliate link.

You might also like our pumpkin cinnamon rolls, pumpkin cinnamon swirl bread, or our pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!

Watch our step by step video!

We make homemade pretzel bites on the regular over here. My kids even know how to make them! Our favorite varieties are butter/salt, cinnamon and sugar or parmesan garlic. With the temps cooling off and pumpkin spice filling the air it was time to make a pumpkin version.

Pumpkin Pretzel Bites

(The vanilla glaze is delicious drizzled over the pretzel bites or as a dipping sauce!)

Our pumpkin spice pretzel bites did not disappoint. Mac likes them without the dipping sauce, but I highly recommend making the vanilla glaze dipping sauce. It really takes them up a notch. So delicious!

Ingredients

• Mix water/yeast. Cover and let it rest for 10 minutes or until it is foamy.
• Mix dry ingredients together. Add water/yeast mixture, oil and pumpkin puree to dry ingredients and mix until a soft dough forms. Turn out onto lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.

Note: I mix my dough with a Danish dough whisk, but a wooden spoon or stand mixer will work too.

• Brush bowl with oil or spray with non stick cooking spray and return dough to bowl. Cover loosely with a towel and let raise until doubled, about an hour.

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Make a bath for the pretzels by combining the baking soda with HOT water in a bowl and stirring until baking soda is mostly dissolved (it won’t dissolve completely).
• Roll out dough into a long rectangle (about 12″x24″). Using a pizza cutter, cut into small sections. Dip each dough square into the water/soda bath, allowing excess to drip off, and place on a greased baking sheet.

• Bake for 4 minutes, then rotate pan and bake another 4 minutes.

• Brush pretzels with melted butter. Sprinkle liberally with cinnamon and sugar.
• Whisk icing ingredients together. Drizzle over cooled pretzel bites or use as a dipping sauce. (Drizzle glaze over pretzel bites or use as a dipping sauce

Store pretzel bites in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days.

Pumpkin Pretzel Bites Recipe

Pumpkin Pretzel Bites

Pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves combine with our classic pretzel bites recipe to make pumpkin pretzel bites! Dip in vanilla glaze. This is the perfect recipe for fall.

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Prep Time: 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 25 minutes minutes

Servings: 12

Calories: 190kcal

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cup warm water
• 1 Tbsp. yeast
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 3 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt

Bath

• 2 cup HOT water
• 3 Tbsp. baking soda

Topping

• 1/4 cup butter melted
• cinnamon and sugar

Dipping Glaze

• 1/4 cup butter softened
• 1 1/2-2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 Tbsp. milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

• Mix water/yeast. Cover and let it rest for 10 minutes or until it is foamy.
• Mix dry ingredients together. Add water/yeast mixture, oil and pumpkin puree to dry ingredients and mix until a soft dough forms. Turn out onto lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.
  
• Brush bowl with oil or spray with non stick cooking spray and return dough to bowl. Cover loosely with a towel and let raise until doubled, about an hour.
  
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Make a bath for the pretzels by combining the baking soda with HOT water in a bowl and stirring until soda is mostly dissolved (it won't dissolve completely).
• Roll out dough into a long rectangle (about 12"x24"). Using a pizza cutter, cut into small bite-sized sections. Dip each dough square into the water/soda bath, allowing excess to drip off, and place on a greased baking sheet.
  
• Bake for 4 minutes, then rotate pan and bake another 4 minutes.
• Brush pretzels with melted butter. Sprinkle liberally with cinnamon and sugar.
  
• Whisk icing ingredients together. Drizzle over cooled pretzel bites or use as a dipping sauce.
  

Nutrition

Calories: 190kcal