Two more delicious recipes to share with you from our amazing Minky staffers. These are perfect for making and sharing with those you love. Enjoy!
Delicious Buttery Dinner Rolls
- 1 1/2 cups of milk
- 3/4 cup + 1 Tablespoon Sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 Tablespoon salt
- 2 Tablespoons yeast
- 2 cups of warm water
- about 9-10 cups of all purpose flour
- at least 1 cup of butter
To start: Scald 1 1/2 cups of milk, 3/4 cup sugar and 1/2 cup of butter in a microwave safe bowl for about 2 minutes. Cutting the butter into pieces helps it melt faster. There will probably be some little cubes of butter still floating in the hot mixture. Don’t worry, they will melt.
Next, we are going to add yeast to this hot mixture. But don’t do it while it is hot, or the heat will kill the yeast. To cool it down, stir in 1-2 cups of flour and add 1 egg and 1 Tablespoon of salt. Then leave it to cool for a couple of minutes.
Meanwhile, dissolve 2 Tablespoons of yeast in 2 cups of warm water and 1 Tablespoon of sugar in a measuring cup. Let it sit for a couple of minutes until it is bubbly. Make sure your milk mixture is just warm — not boiling — and add in the yeast mixture!
Using a fork or wooden spoon, gradually stir in 9-10 cups of flour (counting the flour you have already added to cool it earlier). I would recommend only adding 2 cups at time and stirring in between. These rolls turn out so much better when they are mixed by hand.
**Keep track of how much flour you are adding!!!
At the end the dough will be dense and sticky. Although it may be hard to stir, you can use your hands to incorporate the rest of the flour if needed. Be sure not to add too much flour. Then smooth the dough out and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Leave it in a warm place and let it rise.
When your dough is close to raising completely, butter 2 cookie sheets and set them aside. Let the dough rise until it has doubled in size.
Cover your work space with flour to prevent the dough from sticking. Dump your dough out and divide it into 4 balls. Eyeball the sizes, then lift them up and feel the weight of each ball. Try to make them even, but they don’t have to be perfect.
Using one ball of dough at a time,m roll the dough into a circle on a floured counter. Once it is rolled out, spread the top with butter from edge to edge. You will use about 2 Tablespoons per circle of dough.
Cut the dough into quarters using a pizza cutter. Then cut each quarter into 3 pieces. You should end up with 12 triangles from each circle of dough. Roll the dough starting with the wide end of the triangle. Tuck the tail of the triangle under the roll and place it on the buttered cookie sheet. You will make 3 rows, with 8 rolls per row. This will give you 24 rolls per pan. Two balls of dough will fill 1 pan. You will get a total of 48 rolls!
Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. Place the pans of rolls in a warm place (on top of the oven if possible) to let them rise. Once they are touching and full in size, cook (one pan at a time) in the oven ’till they are golden brown. It will take about 10 – 15 minutes. It may take longer depending on how hot your oven cooks. Keep a close eye on your first pan to get the right time for the second.
While your rolls are still hot and fresh out of the oven, run a stick of butter over the tops of them for a delicious buttery glaze.
Source: How Does She?
Cinnamon Honey Butter
- 2 sticks of butter at room temperature
- 1 cup of powdered sugar
- 1 cup of honey
- 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
Using the whisk attachment for your mixer, whip the butter. Add powdered sugar, honey, and cinnamon. Whip it good. Scrape the sides and whip it again.
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