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Jennifer Garner attends the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium on January 19, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.David Fisher/Shutterstock
Jennifer Garner is back to working her magic in the kitchen! The Peppermint star, who hosts her own aptly titled Pretend Cooking Show on her social media channels, whipped up a savory snack at the urging of her son, Samuel.
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“[My son] said to me yesterday, ‘Mom you have had too much candy. It’s time to stop,’” Garner, 47, explained at the start of an Instagram video posted on Saturday, March 7. “Well, that’s too big, when a kid can tell you you’ve had too much candy, but he didn’t say anything about soft pretzels!”
With her 8-year-old son’s words of wisdom in mind, the Alias alum, who also shares daughters Violet, 14, and Seraphina, 11, with ex-husbandBen Affleck, began preparing the aforementioned salty treat using a recipe she found from culinary pro Alton Brown.
She kicked things off by activating yeast. “When you’re activating yeast, you just want to take the chill off,” Garner advised as she combined some “just barely warm” water with dry yeast. “You don’t want to kill the yeast when you’re trying to activate it.”
After adding some sugar and flour to the mixture, per Brown’s instructions, Garner tweaked the recipe a bit. “If you don’t mind sir, I’m going to add the salt here,” she quipped in a remark intended for the 57-year-old chef. While the Good Eats host’s recipe called for the salt to be added to the mixture earlier in the process, Garner worried it would “kill” the yeast so she took matters into her own hands.
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“If you’re looking to have a Good Mom Day 🏆, homemade soft pretzels should do the trick. ♥️♥️ Perfect for passing back to kids on their way to soccer/swim/ballet/coding/piano,” the Once Upon a Farm cofounder noted in the caption. “I’ve tried a bunch of recipes 👵🏻 and love @altonbrown’s.”
Jennifer Garner poses with her children Violet Affleck, from left, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck and Samuel Garner Affleck at the ceremony honoring her with a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Next up, the Texas native tossed some butter and flour into the bowl before using an electric mixer to combine all of the ingredients. “If you use one of these big mixers, I think it’s worth it to start [with the] paddle [and then] go hook,” she suggested.
After proofing the dough (and talking to it!) Garner shaped her pretzels and briefly placed them into a pot of boiling water before removing them and finishing them off in the oven. “If anyone tries to suggest that you aren’t beautiful – they might be right,” she told her partially cooked pastries. “That’s how my kids now I made it. If it looks just a little sketchy, they know it’s mom.”
Though the pretzels weren’t picture-perfect, Garner still approved of the final product. “Wow!” she exclaimed as she took her first bite and did a little celebration dance. “Lord have mercy this is good!”
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On past episodes of her Pretend Cooking Show, Garner has made pumpkin bread, Ina Garten’s lemon chicken and more. However, while cooking with Martha Stewart in July 2018, the Camping alum made to clear she had no desire to host an actual cooking show on TV. “I like doing a three- or four-minute version in my pajamas at my house and I like being here, but no,” she said at the time, when asked about her small screen prospects. “That’s probably as far as I go.”
