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You are here: Home / Articles / How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!)

January 2, 2023

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!)

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Who doesn’t love stuffed bagels? They’re like Bagels 2.0. There’s everything I love about bagels – their beautiful round shape, their shiny tops and chewy crust, but upgraded with a delicious creamy swirled stuffing that provides the perfect textural contrast to the heavy dense dough. While stuffed bagels are already quite popular in many cafes across East Asia, I haven’t come across any stuffed bagel places in the US and wanted to figure out how to make my own at home. So here it is, a post on how to stuff bagels, step-by-step.

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What You'll Find in this Post:
1. First You’ll Need:
2. Two Different Shapes of Filling
3. Step-by-Step Guide
4. Conclusion

First You’ll Need:

A Bagel Dough

You can use any bagel dough to start out the stuffing process. I like this basic bagel dough recipe from King Arthur Flour, but you can also use one from this blog like this Applesauce Bagel Dough. I like this applesauce dough because it’s very easy to work with and also tastes slightly sweet thanks to the applesauce. The fiber in the applesauce also keeps the bagel nice and moist for much longer than traditional bagels made with just flour and water.

Here are some other bagel dough ideas for reference!

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Stuffing of Choice

Next, we’ll need the stuffing. The most standard bagel filling is cream cheese, but other thick paste-type fillings such as peanut butter, ganache, red bean paste, etc. work just as well! You can also incorporate add-ins like nuts or chocolate chips to enhance texture. More filling options are covered at the end section, but here’s a handy list of 10+ different bagel fillings you can try (full list here).

Two Different Shapes of Filling

There are essentially 2 main ways to stuff a bagel. Depending on which way you choose you’ll get either a crescent-shaped filling (like in the first pic, peanut butter bagels) or the spiral-shaped filling (like in the second pic, cream cheese pumpkin bagels). We’ll cover the crescent-shaped filling first.

crunchy peanut butter stuffed bagels - bagel stuffing idea
crescent shaped
cream cheese stuffed bagels - bagel stuffing idea
spiral shaped

Step-by-Step Guide

Crescent Shaped Filling

First, prepare the bagel dough of choice, and allow it to go through the first rise. Divide the dough into portions.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Use a rolling pin to roll out each piece of the bagel dough into a thin, 5 x 7 inch rectangle

TIP: the thinner you roll out the dough, the better! This helps to create more layers within the bagel and also helps to seal in the filling since we’ll roll the filling inside the flattened dough.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Spoon about 2-3 Tablespoons of the filling onto the bagel dough.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Place the filling towards one end of the rectangle.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Roll the bagel dough over the filling, and seal the ends by pinching the seams of the dough with wet fingers.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Bring together the two ends of the bagel dough by inserting one end of the rolled dough into the other end

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Pinch the seams together so that it won’t fall apart during the boiling process.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Stretch out the bagel to ensure even thickness

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Shape the rest of the bagel dough, then boil and bake the bagels as instructed in the bagel recipe.

vegan sweet potato apvs with healthy pecan pie filling
go to recipe: Healthy Sweet Potato Bagels Stuffed With Vegan Pecan Pie

2. Spiral Shaped Filling

First, prepare the bagel dough of choice, and allow it to go through the first rise. Divide the dough into portions.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Use a rolling pin to roll out each piece of the bagel dough into a thin, 5 x 7 inch rectangle

TIP: the thinner you roll out the dough, the better! This helps to create more layers within the bagel and also helps to seal in the filling since we’ll roll the filling inside the flattened dough.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Spoon about 2-3 Tablespoons of the filling onto the bagel dough, spreading the filling onto the dough so that it is evenly distributed.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Roll the bagel dough over the filling.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Seal the ends by pinching the seams of the dough with wet fingers.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Bring together the two ends of the bagel dough by inserting one end of the rolled dough into the other end.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Pinch the seams together so that it won’t fall apart during the boiling process.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Boil and bake the bagels as instructed in the bagel recipe.

How to Stuff Bagels Step-by-Step (with Tips and Tricks!) - how to stuff bagels

Shape the rest of the bagel dough, then boil and bake the bagels as instructed in the bagel recipe.

Pumpkin bagel recipe stuffed with cream cheese
go to recipe: Healthy Pumpkin Bagels Stuffed with Cream Cheese

Conclusion

Hope this step by step guide makes it easier for you to start making stuffed bagels at home! With so many bagel dough flavors and so many filling ideas I promise there’s a stuffed bagel recipe for everyone.

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