Yummy Homemade Rolls!

Hope everyone has been having a great weekend, and eating LOTS :) Yesterday, me and the husband were able to enjoy our second Thanksgiving with my mom. I was told to bring the rolls, and decided to make this amazing homemade declicousness. I mean addictive, can't stop eat, won't stop eating rolls. I will be honest that they do take awhile to make...just because of the time you have to let them rise etc. BUT they are so worth it. If you need to bring something to your Christmas dinner. Bring these. Everyone will ask where you bought them and will be more impressed when you tell them you made them from scratch! My family almost died. I'm not always one to make things from scratch ;) Which goes to show that if I can make these successfully I guarantee you can.

Ready to make these????

Yields 48 Rolls
The ingredients you will need:

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

Directions:

1. First find a fairly large microwave safe bowl and add your 1 1/2 cups of milk, 3/4 cup of sugar and lastly 1/2 cup of butter sliced (to allow it to melt faster).

 

It's okay if the butter isn't completely melted :)

2.  Now add in 1 1/2 cups of flour, 1 egg, and 1 tablespoon of salt. Mix it, and set aside. In a SEPARATE small bowl or measuring cup we are going to start working with your yeast. Here you are going to add 2 tablespoons of yeast to 2 cups of warm water and 1 tablespoon of sugar. Remember that you want the water warm not hot or else it will kill your yeast and you don't want that :) Lightly mix these three ingredients together and set aside and wait for your yeast to start bubbling...that's how you know it will be ready to use :)

 3. By this time your flour mixture in your large bowl should be cooled down enough to room temperature to be able to add your yeast mixture without killing the yeast. If not WAIT until it is. Then, start to add the rest of your flour 8 1/2 cups mixing your mixture with a large spoon. Add your flour in slowly, just a couple cups at a time. You may need a little less or a little more flour, but usually a total of 9-10 cups (this is including all flour you have added) seems to work out best. 

 

4. After adding your flour your dough should be pretty sticky and hard to stir. If you need to get a little messy and use your hands I won't tell anyone ;) The picture above is what my dough ended up looking like once all my flour was added. Now cover your bowl with plastic wrap or dish towel and let rise in a warm area.

 

5. Then wallah! After about 2-3 hours your dough should double in size and look similar to this. Before dealing with your dough take out two cookie sheets, butter them and set aside. Now these next couple of steps I forgot to take pictures please forgive me...hopefully my diagrams will help.

6. Flour your counter or area that you are going to be working on. Dump your dough out and separate into four equal dough balls. 

 

7. Choose one of your dough balls and roll it out into a large circle and then spread the top with about 2 tablespoons of butter. At this point you will begin to start cutting..once in the middle top to bottom and once left to right.

8. Next you will cut each quadrant twice more so you should end up with 12 slices.

9. Now begin rolling each roll from the wide end to the narrow end, and place on your buttered pan with the narrow end touching the pan. Continue rolling up all your rolls and then continue steps 7-9 with your other three dough balls.

10. Each pan should hold 24 rolls. Three rolls across and eight rolls down. They will be a tight fit but they WILL fit :)

11. Set your oven now for 350 degrees and place both your pans of trays on top of oven if possible, or in another warm place until oven is heated. This time just allows for the dough to continue to rise. Once oven is ready cook each oven separately for 15-20 minutes. Each oven is so different and I would hate to have you over cook your rolls after you have slaved over them all day. SO keep a close eye on them and wait for the tops to be golden brown.

 

12. Once your rolls are out of the oven lightly butter the tops of them while they are still hot and then....ENJOY!! And eat them before they disappear. Hope you guys love these as much as me and my family do!