I'm a Dollar Tree fan - I made Auntie Anne's style pretzels with just three cheap ingredients
THIS foodie made knock-off Auntie Anne's pretzels for a fraction of the cost using three Dollar Tree ingredients.
Lyssa who goes by @cookinwitlyssa on TikTok tested out this fast-food hack in a video.
You'll need soft baked pretzels from the freezer section at Dollar Tree, a bag of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, and a container of Pillsbury vanilla icing.
Once you get home, take the cereal and put it into a Ziploc bag. If you don't already have these in your kitchen, you can pick them up at Dollar Tree as well.
You're then going to crush the cereal into "a powdery consistency," Lyssa said.
For this step, Lyssa used a jar to crush the cereal but you can use anything around the house, such as a rolling pin.
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Lyssa only used about half the bag of cereal for six pretzels.
She then laid out the pretzels on a baking sheet with aluminum foil and brushed water on top of them, as instructed from the box that the pretzels came in.
If you want more flavor you can brush melted butter on top.
Your water or butter will help the cereal stick to the pretzels.
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Lyssa then put each pretzel one by one into the Ziploc bag with the crushed cereal and shook it to coat the whole pretzel.
If you don't want that much of the cinnamon mixture on your pretzel, you can also just sprinkle it on top with a spoon.
Since the pack of pretzels came with a packet of salt, Lyssa decided to make three pretzels with salt on them.
While the pretzels were in the oven for about three minutes, Lyssa softened the icing in the microwave.
To get the icing in a "drizzly state" pop it in the microwave for about 10 seconds, said Lyssa.
Once the pretzels were ready she drizzled the icing on the cinnamon pretzels and sprinkled a little more of the crushed cereal on top.
"These were like really good." Lyssa said, "Even if you're not on a budget I would recommend these cause like $1.25 for all them pretzels and they pretty good."
One commenter suggested: "Okay now try with pepperoni."
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If you are looking to splurge a tad more, another user suggested getting the Sam's Club pretzels.
She wrote: "sams club sales box of soft pretzels comes with cinnamon sugar and salt lol fireeee."
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