Auntie Anne's Cheese Dip Copycat Recipe
The pretzel dip - milder and thinner than a queso, built to stay liquid in a paper pot. Eight minutes.
Cooking Auntie Anne's at home, and what its menu costs
A bicarbonate bath, a butter dunk, and the smell that fills a shopping centre.
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Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzel Copycat Recipe
An ordinary bread dough put through an alkaline bath, buttered twice, and salted with coarse crystals. Thirty minutes…
What Auntie Anne's food actually tastes of
Bake your bicarbonate of soda first. Thirty minutes at 150 C on a foil tray converts it to sodium carbonate, which is considerably more alkaline and much closer to the real thing. This is the single step that separates a good home pretzel from a bread roll in a knot.
Butter twice. Before baking for colour, after baking for gloss and flavour. The second brushing is not optional.
Pretzel salt, not table salt. Coarse crystals that do not dissolve into the crust.
About Auntie Anne's
A soft pretzel is a very ordinary bread dough put through one extraordinary step: a brief bath in an alkaline solution before baking. That is what gives the mahogany colour, the distinctive tang, and the chewy skin. Commercial bakeries use food-grade lye; a home kitchen uses baked bicarbonate of soda, which is safe, cheap and gets about ninety per cent of the way.
The Auntie Anne's signature on top of that is butter - a lot of it, brushed on before and after baking - and a coarse salt that stays in crystals rather than dissolving. The sweet variants use the same dough and a cinnamon sugar dunk.
What Auntie Anne's charges, from the menu we hold
7 priced options across 94 menu sections, as last recorded in United States. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between $6.70 and $8.20. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | $4.99 | |
| Middle of the menu | $6.70 | |
| Dearest priced item | $17.98 |
Auntie Anne's changes its prices without telling you. We read this menu once a month and keep the reading – have the changes emailed to you, free, one click to stop.
Every reading we hold is on the Auntie Anne's price history. The full list is on the Auntie Anne's menu page, and the 2 items we have rebuilt at home are listed here.
What Auntie Anne's charges in 10 countries
The same item, priced from each country’s own menu and converted to one currency so the columns can be read against each other. Auntie Anne's sets prices per market, so a gap here is the chain’s pricing rather than an exchange rate artefact – and the widest gap on this list is Cheese Pretzel Dog, which costs $8.73 in the dearest market and $2.23 in the cheapest.
| Item | 🇬🇧 GBP | 🇦🇺 AUD | 🇨🇦 CAD | 🇮🇪 EUR | 🇳🇿 NZD | 🇸🇬 SGD | 🇵🇭 PHP | 🇭🇰 HKD | 🇲🇾 MYR | 🇹🇭 THB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.73 | $1.04 | $1.96 | $1.06 | $0.79 | $0.94 | $0.48 | — | $0.46 | $0.74 | |
| $0.89 | $1.04 | $1.96 | $1.12 | $0.67 | $0.94 | — | — | $0.46 | $0.74 | |
| $6.22 | $4.88 | $4.91 | $6.16 | $3.09 | — | $1.51 | $3.57 | — | $1.34 | |
| $5.93 | $4.88 | — | $6.16 | $3.09 | — | $1.35 | $3.19 | — | $1.16 | |
| $8.73 | — | — | $8.63 | $3.70 | — | $2.23 | — | — | $2.23 | |
| $0.73 | — | — | $1.06 | $0.67 | $0.94 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
Only items Auntie Anne's prices in at least 5 of the markets we hold are listed, because a row with three figures in it is a gap rather than a comparison.
What Auntie Anne's sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Caramel Dip | 9 | - |
| Cheese Dip | 8 | Auntie Anne's Cheese Dip Copycat Recipe |
| Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel | 8 | - |
| Original Pretzel | 7 | Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzel Copycat Recipe |
| Chocolate Dip | 5 | - |
| Cheese Pretzel Dog | 5 | - |
| Mini Pretzel Dogs | 4 | - |
| Original Pretzel Dog | 3 | - |
| Vanilla Pretzel | 3 | - |
| Original Pretzel Nuggets | 3 | - |
| Sesame Pretzel | 3 | - |
| Sour Cream & Onion Pretzel | 3 | - |
Build your Auntie Anne's order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side.
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