Make Fresh Mini Bagels (2024)

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ByLauraPublished onApril 24, 2020March 17, 2024Updated onMarch 17, 2024

That's right, let's make mini bagels. These are fun to make because you get 24 little bagels for snacking. You can toast them, make sandwiches, or make pizzas. They're so much fun and taste great too! Let's make some homemade snack foods, and what's more fun than broiling, boiling, and baking up some mini bagels that you can turn into mini bagel pizzas! These are the ultimate homemade snack foods you can make with this easy homemade mini bagel recipe.

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That’s right, let’s make mini bagels. These are fun to make because you get 24 little bagels to snack on. Plus if you have all the ingredients you can make your own mini bagel pizzas. Prime snacking material.

If you loved my soft homemade pretzels you will enjoy these adorable bagels. They’re very similar in preparation and taste.

These are just regular bagels but made small. They’re a tad more work because you’re hustling 24 bagels instead of 12 but it’s not substantially more work, just a little.

Plus MINI BAGELS!

You Can Make Your Own Mini Bagel Pizzas

If you have some mozzarella, pizza sauce, and whatever pizza toppings you like, you can make that old snack stand-by Mini Bagels Pizzas! These were a huge hit with my kids because they’d never had or heard of mini bagel pizzas.

Now they have, and they’re already asking me to teach the ways of bagel making. When I said oh it’s easy you broil them, boil them, and bake them, the interested one seemed a little taken aback. Not enough to put him off learning the recipe though.

Can I Use All-Purpose Flour to Make Bagels?!

Yes, you can absolutely make these bagels with all-purpose or plain flour IF you don’t have bread flour. Bread flour has wheat that has a higher gluten content so it’s a little more structurally sound.

If you DON’T have bread flour it’s going to be just fine. I test all my recipes with All-Purpose Flour (AP Flour) to make sure they will work for you.

As a mom of teen boys I know buying bread flour in bulk can be hard to do, whether its availability OR price that makes it hard. So I make sure that if anyone needs (KNEADS) to use AP flour, they’ll be just fine to do so.

What Yeast Should I use? Instant or Active Dry Yeast?

Active Dry Yeast works BEST if dissolved in a little of the liquid called for in the recipe.

IF the recipe calls for Instant Yeast OR Rapid Rise you can still use regular active dry yeast as long as you dissolve it in warm water or recipe liquid first. This gets the yeast activated and ready to work.

If you have Instant Dry Yeast or Rapid Rise Yeast you can add it directly to your flour mixture. There’s no need to dissolve it in warm water, it’s ready to work!

Mini Bagels

4.50 from 4 votes

Course: Bread Recipes

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes minutes

Additional Time: 45 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 35 minutes minutes

Servings: 24

Calories: 90kcal

Author: Laura

Ingredients

4 1/4 cups flour bread or all-purpose work just fine
2 1/2 teaspoons yeast
1/4 cup sugar divided
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups warm water

Instructions

grease a baking sheet and set it aside
put 2 cups flour, yeast, 3 Tablespoons of sugar, and salt in the bowl of a mixer
stir to combine
add the water and run the mixer with the bread attachment until the ingredients are mixed together
add 1 1/2 more cups of flour and let the dough come together, if it's sticky you can add the last bit of flour in 1/4 cup increments until a nice soft dough is formed, some days you need all of it it, some days you don't, it all depends on the humidity and how well you measured the flour
once you've got a nice soft dough let the machine knead it one more minute
then cover the dough with plastic wrap for ten minutes
preheat the broiler
divide the dough into 24 balls, you can divide the dough into two halves, and roll each into a long roll use a bench scraper to cut the dough into 12 pieces, repeat with the other piece of dough
take each piece and gently round it out to a mini circle repeat with all 24 pieces of dough
flour your fingers and use them to poke a hole in each circle and gently stretch it out to be about 1 inch wide
lay each mini bagel on a greased baking tray
cover and let rest 10 minutes
while the bagels rest set up the boiling station put six cups of water and the remaining TBSP of sugar in a large flat skillet or dutch oven
remove the cover and broil five inches from the heat, 1-2 minutes per side, try not to let them brown up
while they broil bring the prepped water to a simmer
when the bagels are done slide half of them in the simmering water, cook 3 minutes per side
switch the oven to bake and 375˚
let the bagels drain briefly on a cooling rack, be sure they don't stick to it
cook the remaining bagels the same way
once the bagels have drained you can return them to the greased baking sheet
when all the bagels have been boiled and drained and put on the greased baking sheet bake for 20-25 minutes until lightly browned and cooked through