This easy, basic yeasted sweet bread recipe uses only eight ingredients and can be made into dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls, or sticky buns.
Provided by: SmallRecipe.com
Categories: Dessert
Total time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
| 1 cup milk |
| ⅓ cup white sugar |
| 1 tablespoon active dry yeast |
| 4 cups all-purpose flour |
| ½ teaspoon salt |
| ⅓ cup unsalted butter, softened |
| 2 large eggs |
| 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided, or as needed |
Steps:
- Combine milk and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Heat until slightly warm to the touch then remove from heat and stir in yeast. Let stand until foamy, about 10 minutes.
- Stir together flour and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook. Add softened butter, eggs, and the yeast mixture and mix until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
- Turn dough out onto a floured surface and continue to knead until the dough is smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. Grease a large bowl with 1 tablespoon oil. Place the dough into the bowl and turn once to coat. Cover and let stand in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
- Grease a cookie sheet or 9×13-inch pan with remaining oil.
- For plain rolls, punch down dough and divide into 12 equal pieces. Roll the pieces into balls and place them into the greased pan side by side. Cover and let dough rise again until almost doubled in size, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Bake in the preheated oven until rolls are golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.
Nutrition Facts:
Calories 263.4 calories, Carbohydrate 38.7 g, Cholesterol 46.2 mg, Fat 9.1 g, Fiber 1.3 g, Protein 6.5 g, Saturated Fat 4.2 g, Sodium 154.5 mg, Sugar 6.7 g
These homemade rolls are a recipe that brings back memories of childhood. It’s a basic, old-fashioned yeast roll recipe. They smell amazing while baking but be patient… good things come to those who wait. Dense but tender, they remind us of a Hawaiian roll in flavor but with a firmer texture. These rolls are delicious alone, smeared with butter, a bun for sliders, or used to sop up some gravy. You won’t be able to just eat one.
Provided by: SmallRecipe.com
Categories: Dessert
Prep time: 2 hours 20 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Yield: 12
Ingredients:
| 1/2 cup(s) milk |
| 1/2 cup(s) sugar |
| 1 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt (can use less) |
| 1/4 cup(s) butter, melted |
| 1/2 cup(s) warm water (105-115 degrees) |
| 2 package(s) Fleischmann’s active dry yeast |
| 2 large eggs, beaten |
| 4 1/2 cup(s) all-purpose flour, may need a bit more or less, see directions |
| – additional butter for coating bowls used and brushing on tops of baked rolls |
Steps:
- Scald milk (bring just to a boil and remove from heat immediately).
- Stir in sugar, salt, and butter. Set aside and allow to cool to lukewarm.
- In a large bowl mix warm water and yeast. Stir until dissolved.
- Stir in lukewarm milk mixture.
- Add beaten eggs.
- Stir in half the flour. Beat until smooth. Add remaining flour gradually, mixing as you go. You may need a bit more or less than the total 4 1/2 cups called for in the recipe, depending on the humidity and other factors.
- Your dough should be elastic and slightly stiff but not dry.
- Turn dough out onto a floured board and knead until smooth and very elastic. This usually takes 8-10 minutes.
- Butter the inside of a large mixing bowl. Put dough in bowl and turn dough over a couple of times to coat it all with the butter.
- Cover bowl and place in a warm place so it can rise.
- It will take about 1 hour to double in bulk.
- At that time punch dough down and turn out onto a lightly floured board to shape.
- At this point, you can shape and fill as desired. To make dinner rolls, pinch off about 2-3 tablespoons of dough and shape into a ball. Place each one in a buttered muffin tin or baking pan, barely touching each other, do not crowd rolls.
- Cover prepared rolls and allow to rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, again about 1 hour.
- Rolls should now touch each other. (A little more rising will occur during baking.)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees when rolls are about 10 minutes from being ready for baking. When ready to bake place rolls in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. They should be browned nicely and smell so good and yeasty!
- Brush tops of rolls with melted butter immediately when removed from the oven.
- Allow rolls to sit for at least 10-15 minutes before eating.