Blueberry bagels

My kids (ok ok ok, it's me...) really love blueberry bagels.  We often get them at Panera or other bakeries but I figured I might as well try them out since I have made bagels in the past and they always turned out pleasantly well.

These were fun to make and were really good while still slightly warm from the oven!

They are considered New York Style bagels since the water is not sweetened and I do use a little salt in the water, but I guess they're not true NY Style because they contain blueberries.  I'm not a bagel purist so I'll go with calling these my New York Style Blueberry Bagels.

The full writeup including more pictures and video of me rolling a bagel can be found at the Make Bread blog.

The only mistake I made was adding in frozen blueberries.  I thought that if they were frozen they might stay more "whole" inside the dough but it turned out that the frozen berries created a sort of "goop" that kept the whole mess sloshy and hard to mix.  I ended up leaving the dough for about an hour and coming back to mixing it after the dough had come back up to room temp.  After incorporating the frozen berries the temp dipped down to the 60's or lower in different parts!

So after the temperature climbed to normal range I resumed mixing.  Wasn't the color beautiful though?!

The rest of the process was pretty straightforward.  Let the dough rest, cut it up in to equal pieces, roll it out and then boil for 60 seconds per side.

Then bake in a 425˚F oven and rotate every 5 minutes until done.  Let cool and enjoy!

Thanks for looking!