This dough makes wonderful dinner rolls but can also be used to make cinnamon rolls. Mixing it in your bread machine but bake the rolls in the oven. They're light, soft and sweet.

Sweet Dinner Rolls

water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)

milk

butter, softened

white sugar

salt

all-purpose flour

(.25 ounce) package active dry yeast

Place water, milk, egg, 1/3 cup butter, sugar, salt, flour and yeast in the pan of the bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Select Dough/Knead and First Rise Cycle; press Start.


When cycle finishes, turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide dough in half. Roll each half into a 12 inch circle, spread 1/4 cup softened butter over entire round. Cut each circle into 8 wedges. Roll wedges starting at wide end; roll gently but tightly. Place point side down on ungreased cookie sheet. Cover with clean kitchen towel and put in a warm place, let rise 1 hour. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).


Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes, until golden.


Wow, I can't believe I made such good rolls.
I don't have a breadmaker, so here's what I did:

I mixed the water and milk, nuked in in the microwave for 1 minute and 15 seconds, poured it into the bowl of my KitchenAid mixer, then stirred in the sugar until it dissolved, then stirred in the yeast. I use yeast from a jar instead of packets, and I used 2.5 teaspoons. After it got foamy (I only waited about 10 minutes...I'm impatient) I mixed in the salt, butter and egg, then I started mixing the flour a half cup at a time.  I let it rise for about 45 minutes in the bowl, then punched it down, divided it into 16 balls (I didn't feel like making crescents) and let it rise for another hour, then baked for 10 minutes. They turned out like something from a bakery. I have never, ever baked bread this wonderful. I am so bummed that I am home alone right now and nobody can see what a wonderful thing I just did!
I also want to add, pay attention to the temperature of your oven...My oven tends to be extremely hot, so I only set it for 350 to bake these...they turned out perfect. I know 400 degrees would have blackened them.
~K

So yummy!  I don't have a breadmaker, so I made these the traditional way (dissolve yeast and 1 tbsp sugar in warm water, let sit for about 10 min.  Meanwhile, warm milk in saucepan until it just bubbles.  Remove from heat, stir in sugar and butter until melted and cool to lukewarm.  In a large bowl combine yeast mixture, milk mixture and egg.  Stir in flour a little at a time and knead on lightly floured surface about 8 min.)  Cover and let rise about 1 hr...punch down and then roll out.  I baked at 375 for 12 min, but could have used a tad longer.  Still very good.

There are never any rolls left when I make these for a dinner.  After the dough raises, I divide the dough into 27 pieces and form into balls.  I place 9 balls in a greased 9" pie pan, this gives me 3 pans of rolls.  I let them raise for 30 minutes, then bake in the oven until lightly brown.  I freeze the rolls in aluminum foil.  When I need dinner rolls, I thaw the rolls, leave them wrapped in the foil and warm in the oven at 350 degrees for 5-10 minutes.  Delicious!

Excellent rolls! I made these into cinnamon rolls and they turned out great! I don't own a bread machine and for those who don't either here are the directions to use: pour water & milk into bowl, add sugar, stir to disolve, add yeast, allow to proof for about 20 minutes until creamy foam appears, add butter, salt, mix, add slightly beaten egg and flour cup by cup stirring mixture. Allow to rise for 45mins in a warm area, covered with clean dish towel. Turn out and continue with step 2. These are very light, tasty rolls!!

My absolute favorite bread recipe. I'm always asked to bring the rolls to get-togethers. I've used it for cinnamon rolls, monkey bread...almost everything. I do cheat, however; normally I cut the dough into 36 pieces and place 3 into each cup of a muffin tin. It makes big, light clover leaf rolls that everyone raves over.

These rolls are so yummy.I don't have a bread maker so I make it the old fashioned way and it still turns out perfect everytime. Mix the warm water, warm milk and yeast first. Let it stand for about 10 minutes for the yeast to proof. Then add the remaining ingredients. Let it rise until doubled in size (about 1hr.) Then follow the rest of the recipe. My husband and boys arm wrestle for the last one. This recipe is also wonderful for cinnamon rolls. Happy Baking!

GREAT!!! 5++++ What more can I say.  I have used this recipe many times and always turns out GREAT!! If I am in a hurry I take dough out of bread machine and cut in 12 equal pieces. Roll dough into balls in my hand and then put them in my glass 9x13 pan and let them raise for 1 hour. Bake for 12 mins at 350....  These rolls are also good when made ahead of time and froze until ready to use. just pop in oven and warm up! Sooo Gooooood!!

The dough was too sticky in the machine, so I sprinkled flour into it until it was smooth.  I was concerned about not using bread machine flour or bread machine yeast.  I used the all purpose flour as it called for, but I used the bread machine yeast...it was all I had. I used 2 1/2 tsp of bread machine yeast. They rose just fine and taste great.  I will use this recipe to replace my old bread machine roll recipe.  As did another reviewer, I cut my dough into 36 pieces and placed three balls of dough into each muffin cup.  They turned into beautiful clover rolls.  Nice touch.  Also, I use a pizza cutter to cut my dough.

Amazingly wonderful. Just made them this morning. It was so easy using my bread machine on dough cycle; then pulled the dough out and rolled out flat for cinnamon rolls. Added fresh orange peel and 2 Tb fresh orange juice to butter, spread it on the rectangle of dough; packed on lots of brown sugar and cinnamon. Rolled and cut into cinn. rolls. Baked in 9x13 pan, 20mins at 200 degrees, then 20+/- mins at 350 degrees. Might want to put foil loosely over top so they don't get too brown or dried out. Wonderful new tradition for Thanksgiving morning!!!!!

Ended up being too sweet & crumbly for my taste

Use a bread machine to make fast work of this tasty dough. Yum!

sweet dinner rolls

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total: 1 hours, 80 minutes

Servings: 16

Cost: $1.44 /serving

Author : Donna West

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