Honey Butter Dinner Rolls
Homemade Honey Butter Dinner Rolls are a sweet roll that can be served as a side dish, or you can use them to make mini sandwiches and burgers!
Equipment
- Digital Food Scale
- Stand Mixer
- Baking Dish
Ingredients
Dough
- 9 grams instant yeast
- 57 grams cane sugar
- ¼ cup warm water
- 57 grams salted butter
- 1 cup milk
- 21 grams raw honey
- 446 grams all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons fine sea salt
Topping
- 28 grams salted butter
- 7 grams raw honey
Instructions
- To make the dough: In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment, add the yeast, ½ teaspoon cane sugar, and warm water. Let sit for 5 minutes or until bubbly.
- In a small saucepan, add the butter, milk, and honey and melt over medium heat until completely melted. Remove from heat.
- Add the flour, remaining 57 grams cane sugar, and sea salt to the mixing bowl in that order. Pour the warm milk mixture over the top and knead on low speed until completely combined. Continue to knead for about 3 to 5 minutes, until the dough is smooth to the touch.
- Grease a large mixing bowl and transfer the dough into the bowl and cover with plastic wrap or a kitchen towel. Allow to rise for 1 to 3 hours, or until doubled in size.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- On a lightly floured surface, remove the dough and form into 12 balls that weigh about 73 grams each, I do this using a bench scraper.
- Tuck and fold the dough under so you have a smooth ball of dough. Repeat so all the dough balls have a smooth top. Place the shaped rolls in the greased baking pan (I used a 10.5-inch by 7.5-inch baking dish).
- Cover the dish with plastic wrap or a clean kitchen towel and let rise for 30 minutes, or until the dough feels springy.
- To make the topping: In a small bowl, add the butter and honey. Microwave for 30 seconds to melt completely. Using the pastry brush, brush the tops of the rolls with the melted butter and honey.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve immediately or store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
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Notes
Tips
- You can use active dry yeast yeast in place of instant yeast, that also works. Your dough my take a little longer to rise.
- If you don't have a mixer, you can easily make this dough by hand as well, the kneading process may just take a bit longer. While usually a hand mixer works in place of a mixer, it's not ideal here as this is a bread dough. So, it's better to use your hands, a large wooden spoon or even a silicone spatula if you don't have a stand mixer.
- If you don't have the right size ceramic baking dish, you can use a large cast iron skillet and form the dough balls into a circle inside the skillet. This also works!
- You can prep these in advance if you need to. Just do everything down to putting the rolls in the dish and then cover with plastic wrap and store in the fridge for up to 24 hours. Allow to come to room temperature before baking off. Just don't do this in your cast iron skillet, as you shouldn't keep food in that in the fridge.
- Store extra rolls in an airtight container so these stay soft!
- High Altitude — Bake at 350°F for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
Nutrition
Calories: 226kcalCarbohydrates: 36gProtein: 5gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 18mgSodium: 345mgPotassium: 81mgFiber: 1gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 210IUVitamin C: 0.01mgCalcium: 33mgIron: 2mg
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