First, in a large bowl, add the active dry yeast, brown sugar, and 1/4 cup of warm water and mix well. (I use the bowl of my stand mixer)

Second, let the yeast mixture sit for 5 minutes and become active.

Third, while the yeast is becoming foamy, go ahead and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper and spray with nonstick spray.

Then, add the remaining 1 1/4 cup warm water, salt, all-purpose flour, and whole wheat flour to the yeast mixture and mix well.

Next, put the bowl on the stand mixer with the dough hook and put it on low speed. While the mixer is working, slowly add the melted butter until it's incorporated.

Once the butter is incorporated, scrape down the sides and turn the stand mixer back on medium speed and let it knead the dough for 7 minutes.

After the dough has been kneaded for 7 minutes, take the dough out of the bowl and lay it on a clean surface to roll into pretzels.

Divide the dough into 10 equal pieces.

Take one of the portions of dough and roll it out to an 18-20 inch long rope.

Once the pretzel dough is rolled out, form it into a "U" shape and bring the ends back over and twist around each other and finally connect back to the bottom of the "U". This is how you get that classic pretzel shape. (This is seen easier in my video.)

After rolling out all 10 pretzels, cover them with a clean dish towel and let the dough rise for 30 minutes in a warm place.

While waiting on the pretzels to rise, go ahead and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Also, get a large pot of water and bring to a boil. Once the water is boiling, add 3/4 cup of baking soda. (This is the baking soda bath that you will do to each of the pretzels before baking.)

After 30 minutes of the pretzels rising, it's now time do put them in the baking soda bath. I put two pretzels in at a time to make sure that I don't overcrowd the pot.

Boil the pretzels for 30 seconds on the first side and then flip and boil on the other side for another 30 seconds.

After the pretzels have boiled on both sides, take them out of the baking soda water bath and place back onto the prepared baking sheet with parchment paper.

Then place the pretzels in the 400 degree oven and bake for 15 - 20 minutes. Keep an eye on them and I like to put them under the broiler for the last couple of minutes for a nice golden brown color on top.

While the pretzels are baking, add the butter, garlic powder, parsley, parmesan cheese, honey and salt to a small pot and melt completely. Set this aside until the pretzels are finished baking.

Finally, using a pastry brush, cover the hot pretzels with the garlic parmesan sauce and sprinkle with the remaining parmesan cheese and serve immediately!