These Vanilla Bean Glazed Soft Pretzel Donuts are a soft pretzel dough boiled and salted then deep fried and covered in a vanilla bean glaze.

I have a friend who likes to ask all the time “what will you be remembered for”.

She puts it up on her FB page about once a week.

Which kind of reminds me of a writing prompt that they would give you on the SAT but it’s something to ponder.

That’s a hard one as I think to different people I want to be remembered a certain way.

How my husband remembers me might be different than what my former students remember me for.

Unless of course, you are Mary Kay Letourneau 😉 then it might be the same…did you know they live in Seattle?.

I used to think in the world of food blogging I will either be known for the Snickerdoodle (aka Refund Muffin) or the fact that I’m not a Best Blog.

But that may all change as of today.

It may change because of these.

These Vanilla Bean Glazed Soft Pretzel Donuts.

I’m not totally sure how the idea came along.

Perhaps it’s the fact that I think almost everything is better with glaze on it.

All I know is that one day it just popped in my head. Just like so many of my ideas.

I have a little notepad by my bed because often these ideas come at 3am and by the time I wake up I forget half the time. #oldpeopleproblems

I often get ideas and they don’t work out. Sometimes they do.

These most definitely did work out.

Oh, did they work out.

I wanted to run outside and shout to everyone go make these right now.

But it was raining so I just put them on Instagram instead. 😀

I decided that this would be my post that I collaborated with Rodelle on (that’s code for sponsored post-FYI 😀 ).

And I get creative freedom on my post for Rodelle so it’s always a surprise to them what I’m coming up with.

Luckily we have worked together long enough they know I won’t steer them wrong.

I wasn’t sure at first since the recipes I normally do for them are super vanilla based.

But I knew I loved this recipe.

I know I love their vanilla and I wanted them to be a part of what (at least until something else comes along) may very well be the legacy of Sweet ReciPEAS…they are seriously that good.

Seriously.

I chose to use Rodelle’s Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Beans. I could have used vanilla extract but I really wanted to see the vanilla beans speckled on the pretzels.

These are made just like regular soft pretzels at first.

If you have never made soft pretzels at home before they are actually quite easy.

The recipe I use does not use lye, instead using baking soda.

There are purists about using lye, I am not one of those purists.

They still get boiled like a pretzel.

Then brushed with egg and sprinkled with salt.

But instead of baking they get dropped into hot oil and fried.

Now we have a deep fryer but we still had to turn them like you have to with donuts.

So these can easily be made in a pot of oil.

Now you can stop here.

You can just have a deep fried pretzel.

The hubs was in awe of how they had a pretzel flavor, the soft yet chewy inside of a soft pretzel, and yet somehow lighter as he calls it.

BUT don’t stop.

Glaze.

When you glaze them you get this salty sweet vanilla goodness that left me almost speechless…minus the wanting to shout to the neighborhood.

If you make lists of recipes to try, move this to the top.

For real.

And if you are searching for a vanilla bean to use for this recipe use Rodelle. For real.

Thanks again to Rodelle for sponsoring this post.

As always the opinions, bad grammar, and overuse of emoji smiley faces are all mine. 🙂

Last but not least…it’s a great time to order my cookbook. 😀

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Girl Scout Cookie Donuts

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