Homemade Rolls – Super Healthy Kids

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Homemade Rolls – Super Healthy Kids


Not many issues can prime a heat, buttery selfmade roll. These tender, fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth dinner rolls will beat something you should buy on the bakery! Our easy recipe could have even newbie bread makers delivering good rolls that would be the star of each dinner desk.


a basket of homemade rolls in a tea towel

Why We Love Homemade Dinner Rolls

There are usually not many meals on the market as scrumptious and satisfying as selfmade bread. It’s the last word consolation meals and the scent of baking bread is totally heavenly! And whereas it does take a little bit of time, it actually is really easy.. and completely well worth the effort. It is the proper accompaniment to so many meals and leftovers freeze nice!


a homemade roll torn in half on a tea towel

The Ingredients:

  • heat water
  • powdered milk
  • yeast
  • sugar
  • salt
  • butter
  • egg
  • flour

the ingredients for homemade rolls in small bowls on a white countertop

How to Make the Best Homemade Rolls

This recipe requires an enriched dough- which means we added enrichments corresponding to sugar, eggs, butter and milk. This is the key to a tender, fluffy roll.

Make certain you might be measuring your components precisely. This could make the distinction between a tender fluffy dinner position, and a hockey puck.

Don’t over-flour! Stop including flour proper when your dough comes collectively. When you might be rolling out, use simply as a lot as it’s worthwhile to stop the dough from sticking to the floor, however no extra. Too a lot flour will produce a dense roll.

Make certain you might be giving your dough sufficient time to proof! This is crucial for nice taste and in creating the feel you might be searching for in a fluffy dinner roll. Enriched doughs can take longer to proof, and the temperature of your kitchen will have an effect on your proving time as properly. Let your dough rise till it’s doubled in dimension, or whenever you poke it the dough holds a slight indentation and slowly begins to spring again.

Don’t underneath bake! Make certain you get your rolls good and golden. Adding an egg wash or brushing with butter earlier than baking will allow you to get a pleasant, even, golden coloration.


process shots of making bread dough in a metal mixing bowl

How to Shape Dinner Rolls

For these rolls we rolled out the dough right into a rectangle, used a pizza cutter to chop it into squares, after which rolled the squares up and unfold them out on a greased baking sheet. This creates a stunning pull-apart high quality and permits your rolls to get good and brown throughout. However, you actually can form it nonetheless you need!

Basic Round Rolls: Divide the dough into nonetheless many items you want to. Use the palm or your hand to form the dough right into a ball whereas tucking the ends into the middle. Bake in a 13×9 inch pan.

Cloverleaf Rolls: After dividing your dough into the variety of rolls you need, minimize every of these into three items. Roll the smaller items into balls and put all three in a single muffin tin. Repeat with the remaining dough balls.

Knotted Rolls: Roll each bit of dough right into a rope. Carefully tie the dough right into a knot and tuck the ends beneath earlier than putting on baking sheet.

Crescent Rolls: Roll the dough right into a circle. Using a pizza cutter, minimize the dough into wedges like you might be slicing a pizza. Roll every wedge up, ranging from the large finish. Place on a baking sheet and and gently roll right into a curved form earlier than baking.

Parker House Rolls: Roll out the dough and use a biscuit cutter to chop into rounds. Use a butter knife to make an off-center crease on every spherical and fold in half earlier than baking.


step by step tutorial on how to shape homemade rolls

How to Store and Reheat Dinner Rolls

Leftover rolls may be saved in a sealed bag at room temperature 2-3 days. For longer storage, wrap the rolls in foil and place in a ziplock freezer bag. When you’re able to eat them, take away the rolls from the bag. Place the foil wrapped rolls in a 300 diploma oven for 10 minutes. Rolls will final a few month within the freezer.


freshly baked rolls on a baking sheet

More Delicious Bread Recipes:


  • 2 cups heat water
  • 2/3 cup powdered milk
  • 2 tablespoon yeast, lively dry
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/3 cups butter, unsalted softened
  • 1 massive egg
  • 5-6 cups flour all-purpose or bread flour
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • In a big bowl, or mixer bowl mix 2 cups WARM water and the powdered milk and whisk so the milk dissolves.  Add the yeast to this combination whereas water and milk continues to be heat. Let yeast begin to bubble for a couple of minutes (about 3-5).

  • Add sugar, salt, butter, egg and a pair of cups of the flour. Use the dough hook in your mixer and blend on low pace till components are moist, then flip to medium pace and blend for two minutes. Stop the mixer and add 2 extra cups of flour (now 4 cups whole flour added to date) then combine on low pace till the components are moist, then flip mixer on medium pace and blend for two extra minutes.

  • Add roughly 1/2- 1 cup of flour and blend once more. If you might be utilizing bread flour, you’ll seemingly want so as to add the complete cup of flour. The dough must be tender, not overly sticky, and never stiff. Add extra flour if vital so it is simple sufficient to deal with with out sticking to your arms or mixer.  

  • Scrape the dough off the edges of the bowl and pour one tablespoon of canola oil throughout the edges of the bowl. Turn the dough over within the bowl so it’s lined with the oil. Cover with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap and permit to rise in a heat place till double in dimension. (about 1 hour)

  • Once the dough has risen, sprinkle a clear counter with flour and put the dough on the flour.  If your dough feels overly sticky, sprinkle flour on the dough in order that it’s workable and never sticky.  Roll out into a big rectangle, about 12 inches by 8 inches.

  • With a pizza cutter, minimize down the center horizontally, after which minimize all the best way throughout vertically into 2 inch strips. Cut every half horizontally once more so that you’ve 24 ‘strips’ of dough which might be every about 2″ x 4″ (concerning the dimension of a greenback invoice)

  • Grease a baking sheet, or cowl with parchment. Roll up every slice of dough ranging from one finish to the opposite (form of like rolling up a rug) and place seam aspect down in your ready baking sheet. Cover once more and let rise for about half-hour or till they’ve doubled in dimension.

  • Preheat oven to 375 levels.  Remove cowl and bake in preheated oven for 10-Quarter-hour.

Calories: 197kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 315mg | Potassium: 117mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 128IU | Vitamin C: 0.3mg | Calcium: 62mg | Iron: 2mg


Natalie Monson

I’m a registered dietitian, mother of 4, avid lover of meals and robust promoter of wholesome habits. Here you’ll find a lot of scrumptious recipes filled with fruits and veggies, suggestions for getting your children to eat higher and develop into intuitive eaters and many sources for feeding your loved ones.

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