Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 pkg dry yeast
- 4 cups bread flour
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tsp salt
Bagel Water Bath
- 8 cups water
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 tsp baking soda
Egg Wash
- 1 egg white
- 1 tbsp water
Instructions
Make Bagel Dough
- Add warm water and yeast to a bowl, but do not stir together. Let the yeast sit for 5 minutes and let it proof. Once the yeast is bubbled a bit, stir to combine.
- Add bread flour, maple syrup and salt to the yeast mixture. Beat on speed 2 in a stand mixer for two minutes. The dough will look a little dry at this point.
- Remove the dough from the mixer bowl and place onto a floured surface. Knead the dough for 5 minutes.
- Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl (just pour a small amount of olive oil onto your hands and rub all around the inside surface of the bowl), cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow the dough to rise in a warm area for 1 hour or until it’s doubled in size.
Cooking the Bagels
- Preheat your oven to 425°F.
- Once the dough has doubled in size, uncover and punch it down with your fist. Then roll the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide the dough into 8 even sized balls. Using your thumb, punch a hole through the middle and shape the dough into a bagel. Let the dough rest for a few minutes.
- Fill a large pot with 10-12 cups of water. Whisk in the honey and baking soda and bring the water to a boil. Drop 2 bagels in at a time and cook the bagels 1 minute on each side. Transfer the bagels to the prepared baking sheet, brush with egg wash and sprinkle with Everything But The Bagel seasoning.
- Bake the bagels in the oven for 12 minutes, rotate the pan and bake for 12 more minutes. The bagels should be golden brown in color. Let them cool for 15 minutes.
- Enjoy with your favorite cream cheese and cup of hot coffee or tea.
Notes
Make a Cream Cheese Flight
What You Need: 2 packages of cream cheese (softened at room temperature)
How to prepare: Slice each cream cheese block into 3 even sections. Each block will be used to make your six different flavors. Separate the blocks into 6 large bowls and prepare each flavor as follows. Once cream cheese flavors are made, fill 6 shot glasses with each cream cheese flavor. Place on a wooden board and serve with bagels.
Making Cream Cheese Flight Flavors (each flavor makes about 2 1/2 oz cream cheese)
Everything: Add 1 tbsp everything bagel seasoning to softened cream cheese. Mix together in small bowl until incorporated.
Garlic Onion: In a small pan, roast garlic cloves in 1 tbsp olive oil in a small pan until just softened and fragrant. Chop 3 green onion stems and roasted garlic cloves. Mix into softened cream cheese.
Plain: Lightly whist plain cream cheese until softened a bit for spreading.
Apricot: Mix 1 tbsp apricot preserves into your softened cream cheese.
Honey Almond: Stir 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tbsp honey and 1 tbsp sliced almonds into softened cream cheese.
Mixed Berry: Mash 3 raspberries. Stir in mashed raspberries and 1 tbsp blueberry preserves into softened cream cheese.
- Prep Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Category: Breakfast, Snack
- Cuisine: American