Homemade Pretzel Combos - Pizza & Nacho Cheese

To make these, you'll need our homemade pretzel dough recipe.

Ingredients 

  • Pretzel dough
  • 10 c water
  • 2/3 c baking soda
  • 1 egg
  • coarse salt
  • Pizza filling (see below)
  • Nacho cheese filling (see below)
  • For stuffing the combos, you'll either need a pastry bag with a medium sized decorating tip or you can cut a small hole in the corner of a freezer bag 

Directions

  1. Set oven to 450 degrees.
  2. Bring 10 c water to a boil, then add baking soda.
  3. While water is heating up, roll out your pretzel dough into a long, thin breadstick shape. Cut into 1 inch pieces.
  4. Working in batches, boil pretzels for 1 minute each, turning halfway.
  5. Drain with a slotted spoon and place mini pretzels on baking trays.
  6. Brush pretzels with egg wash and top with coarse salt.
  7. Bake in oven for 14 minutes, turning trays and swapping rack position halfway.
  8. Allow pretzels to cool.
  9. Use a toothpick or straw to make a hole in the pretzel.
  10. Use pastry bag (or ziploc version) to stuff Nacho Cheese and Pizza filling into pretzels.

Pizza Filling

  • 1 pack cream cheese, room temp
  • 2/3 cup pizza sauce
  • 1/2 tsp each dried basil, oregano, salt
  1. Combine all ingredients; stir until smooth

Nacho Cheese Filling

  • 1 pack cream cheese, room temp
  • 1 pack velveeta
  • 1/2 tsp each cumin, chili powder, paprika, onion powder, salt
  1. Microwave velveeta for approx 90 seconds.
  2. Add cream cheese and spices; stir until smooth
Kori Hill