Best Easy Bread Rolls Recipes

EASY BREAD ROLLS

Steps:

• Tip the flour, yeast, sugar, salt and oil into a bowl. Pour over 325ml warm water, then mix (with a spatula or your hand), until it comes together as a shaggy dough. Make sure all the flour has been incorporated. Cover and leave for 10 mins.
• Lightly oil your work surface and tip the dough onto it. Knead the dough for at least 10 mins until it becomes tighter and springy - if you have a stand mixer you can do this with a dough hook for 5 mins. Pull the dough into a ball and put in a clean, oiled bowl. Leave for 1 hr, or until doubled in size.
• Tip the dough onto a lightly floured surface and roll into a long sausage shape. Halve the dough, then divide each half into four pieces, so you have eight equal-sized portions. Roll each into a tight ball and put on a dusted baking tray, leaving some room between each ball for rising. Cover with a damp tea towel and leave in a warm place to prove for 40 mins-1 hr or until almost doubled in size.
• Heat the oven to 230C/210C fan/gas 8. When the dough is ready, dust each ball with a bit more flour. (If you like, you can glaze the rolls with milk or beaten egg, and top with seeds.) Bake for 25-30mins, until light brown and hollow sounding when tapped on the base. Leave to cool on a wire rack.

CINNAMON ROLLS FROM FROZEN BREAD DOUGH - EASY

Steps:

• Lightly grease 2 round cake pans with butter.
• Roll bread dough out to an 18x6-inch rectangle and brush with melted butter. Mix brown sugar, walnuts, and cinnamon in a bowl; sprinkle over dough. Roll dough into a log, starting at the long edge. Moisten edge with a little water; seal the edge. Cut log into 20 slices; arrange rolls, cut sides down, in prepared cake pans. Cover with a towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Pour heavy cream over dough.
• Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 25 minutes.
• Stir confectioners' sugar, milk, and vanilla extract in a bowl until smooth, adding more milk or sugar as needed so the mixture is easily drizzled. Drizzle over warm cinnamon rolls to serve.

EASY BREAD MACHINE DINNER ROLLS

Steps:

• Place water, butter, egg, 3 cups flour blend, sugar, salt and yeast in bread machine pan in order recommended by the manufacturer. Select Dough/Manual cycle. During initial mixing cycle, open lid and scrape down sides of bread pan as necessary. As dough mixes, add just enough additional flour blend to create a soft dough. When Dough/Manual cycle is complete, remove dough from bread machine pan. Place on lightly floured surface.
• Coat 13 x 9-inch baking pan with cooking spray. Pat dough into rectangle. Cut with pizza cutter or serrated knife into 15 equal pieces. Shape each into a ball. Place evenly in prepared pan. Cover and let rise in warm place until doubled, about 35 to 45 minutes.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Uncover rolls. Bake 15 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm or cool completely on wire rack.

EASY CRUSTY BREAD ROLLS

Steps:

• Weigh out ingredients for starter in your mixing bowl and whisk together. They should be the consistency of pancake batter.
• Measure out the remaining bread flour and place on top of starter.
• Make two little wells in the dry bread flour, add the salt in one and the yeast in the other.
• Place mixing bowl on its stand, cover (loosely with plastic wrap or a lid), and let ferment for 1-2 hours. The yeast will become active during this time.
• Measure out buttermilk and let stand until ready to use.
• After the preliminary ferment, add buttermilk to bowl and mix with a dough hook until a smooth, elastic dough ball is formed, about 5 minutes.
• Turn the dough out onto a greased countertop (olive oil or Pam Spray works well).
• Knead into a ball (1 minute) and place into a dough riser lightly coated with oil. Spray top of dough with oil, cover and let rise for 2 hours or until doubled in size*.
• Preheat oven with two pizza stones (one per shelf) to 450°F Be sure that the stones and a cookie sheet (bottom shelf) are in the oven when you start pre-heating it.
• Turn bread dough out onto a lightly floured countertop and divide into four pieces. You can make four large loaves at this point or can continue on and divide each dough ball into 8 pieces.
• Form the rolls and place them on 2 sheets of parchment paper that are roughly the same size as your pizza stones (16 rolls/sheet).
• Cover** and let rise for 45 minutes.
• After rising, sprinkle the rolls with flour and slash the tops. ***.
• Place the rolls in the oven using a pizza peel.**** At the same time, put a cup of ice into the cookie sheet to humidify your oven.
• Bake at 425F for 30-35 minutes. If your oven has a convection bake setting, switch to convection for the last 10 minute of baking.
• Cool on wire racks and enjoy!
• *If you are not ready to form the rolls/loaves after the first rise, you can punch the dough down and let it rise again until doubled in size. **I use a plastic storage container that is designed to store things under my bed. It is the perfect size and keeps my dough safe from cats, dogs and other critters. ***A sharp serrated knife works well. ****An inverted cookie tray works in a pinch.

EASY (BREAD MACHINE!) HONEY WHEAT SANDWICH ROLLS

Steps:

• 1. Place warm milk, beaten egg, softened butter, honey, and salt in bread pan.
• 2. Add bread machine flour and whole wheat flour to bread pan.
• 3. Top flours w/ bread machine yeast. Place pan in bread machine, select dough cycle and start.
• 4. When dough cycle is complete, turn dough ball out onto lightly floured surface. Roll out dough to 3/4 inch thickness.
• 5. Cut out rolls w/ 4 inch diameter biscuit cutter. (I like bigger rolls so I use top of tumbler 5-6 inches diameter). This will, of course, produce fewer sandwich buns.
• 6. Place cut out dough rounds on lightly greased cookie sheets; cover and let rise until doubled in size (about 1 hour). Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• 7. Bake in preheated oven 10-15 minutes (time will be determined by bun size). When rolls are baked, brush tops w/ melted butter if desired. Allow to cool thoroughly before slicing horizontally w/ bread knife. HAVE A HAPPY SANDWICH!

EASY YEAST ROLLS (OR MONKEY BREAD)

Steps:

• Heat the water to between 105 and 115 degrees F.
• If working with kids, explain that this temperature will wake up the yeast but not kill it.
• Dissolve the yeast in the water in a large bowl.
• Stir in the sugar, oil, salt and egg.
• Stir in 1 cup of flour until smooth.
• This is officially known as a"sponge" since it does not have all the flour of the final dough.
• Cover with a dishcloth and set in a warm place (over a bowl of warm water, in a slightly warm oven, in the microwave beside a cup of warm water, etc.).
• Let rise for 15 minutes. NOTE: If the sponge is not bubbly and increased in volume, either the yeast was bad, the water was too hot, or the water was too cold). THROW IT AWAY - it will not make palatable bread! If you are sure that the water was the correct temperature (and you did not set the bowl to rise in a hot oven (smile)) get some new yeast.
• This is useful time for cleanup and setting up for kneading.
• Grease a square 9 inch pan.
• If you want to make monkey bread, use a ring pan or a bundt pan and do not grease it.
• Stir down the sponge (ooh and aah over how much it has grown first!) and add 1 1/2 cups flour.
• Blend until well mixed.
• Turn out onto a floured surface.
• Knead 3 minutes adding flour if the dough is sticky.
• If using the square pan, divide the dough into 16 pieces (good math exercise!), and shape quickly into balls.
• If making monkey bread, divide the dough into 32 pieces (more math) and shape quickly into balls.
• For the square pan, arrange the balls in the pan and smear tops with softened margarine.
• For the monkey bread, roll each ball in melted margarine before arranging the balls in the ring or bundt pan.
• Cover the pan with the dishcloth and set back in the warm place (described above).
• Let rise for 25 minutes (depending on the timing with kids, I have been successful with as little as 20 minutes and as long as 30.) Preheat oven to 425°F (move the pan first if that is where the dough is rising, of course).
• Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until light brown.
• Remove from pan to a rack or plate to cool.
• To make them even better (and more fattening), brush the tops with melted butter.
• If you made monkey bread, eat the bread like a monkey by pulling off chunks.
• The monkey bread is also excellent if you roll each dough ball in cinnamon sugar after rolling in margarine and before placing in the pan.
• This makes a good breakfast bread.

EASY, NO-KNEAD BUTTERMILK BREAD ROLLS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour salt, sugar, and instant yeast.
• In a 2-cup liquid measure pour the boiling water over the buttermilk and let it stand for 10 minutes. Give it a stir. You will notice that the buttermilk will look slightly curdled, which is fine. The temperature of the mixture should be lukewarm, which is perfect for the yeast.
• Pour the buttermilk mixture and 4 tablespoons of the melted butter over the flour mixture. Stir until a sticky ball of dough forms. Cover the bowl with a tea towel, or plastic wrap and set it aside in a warm place to rise for 2 hours, or until doubled in bulk.
• Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish, like a glass pyrex or ceramic dish. Flour a work surface and sprinkle flour lightly over the dough and around the edges. Gently lift the dough out of the bowl onto the floured work surface and shape it into a rough ball. Use a bench scraper to divide the ball into 4 equal portions. Shape each portion roughly into a ball, then use a bench scraper to divide each ball into 6 roughly even portions to create 24 small pieces total.
• Using as much flour as necessary, shape each piece roughly into a circle. It's okay if each piece is a little uneven. Place the dough balls into the prepared pan, spacing them evenly apart.
• Preheat the oven to 375ºF. Let the dough rise, uncovered, for 30-40 minutes, or until the dough pieces have puffed to almost fill the pan.
• Transfer the pan to the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove the pan from the oven and immediately brush the top of the rolls with the remaining 2 tablespoons of melted butter. Sprinkle flaky salt over top to taste. Let the rolls cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn the pan out onto cooling racks and then to a serving platter. Serve warm with more butter on the side.

EASY WHITE BREAD ROLLS

Steps:

• Firstly before we start, keep in mind that the doughs first rising can be done over night in the fridge in a well oiled bowl.
• Combine the flour, yeast, salt and caster sugar in a large bowl. I like to mix the mixture with a regular knife.
• Once combined make a well in the center of the flour in preparation for the wet ingredients.
• Measure 300ml of luke warm water and add 3 tbsp of olive oil.
• Pour the water and oil into the well of flour and gradually mix the flour in until it forms a dough.
• Transfer the dough to the work top and start to knead. Do not be intimidated if your dough is quite wet. Many people tend to then add to much flour and this will result in a denser bread. Persist in kneading for ten minutes until smooth and elastic.
• Place your smooth dough into a lightly oiled, covered bowl and leave to prove for an hour. If you have made your dough in the evening then you can leave in the fridge overnight.
• Once your hour prove has finished knock back the dough for a good 10 minutes, then roll into a long sausage shape and divide into 8 sections. Form these sections into small rounds and place on covered baking trays for another hour.
• Whilst proving preheat the oven to 220C/fan. (This step also applies for the fridge proving option).
• Now cook your rolls in the oven for 10-15 minutes. Once out of the oven transfer to a cooling rack, tapping the bottom of the rolls to check that they sound hollow. Cover with a clean tea towel when cooling. This will absorb the moisture from the heat coming of the rolls.
• Best eaten warm!

EASY BREAD MACHINE DINNER ROLLS

Steps:

• 1. This recipe is for 1.5 lbs and will make 18 rolls. Be sure to set your machine up for 1.5 lbs and set on the dough cycle. I have a Breadman Bread Machine. Check instructions on your machine as different machines may vary.
• 2. Add ingredients to your bread machine in order listed. Start machine and let it complete the cycle.
• 3. Once cycle is complete; place dough on a lightly floured service and divide into 18 pieces; shape. NOTE: you may want to put some oil in your hands to keep dough from sticking to hands.
• 4. Place on a greased baking sheet; cover with plastic and let rise for 30 minutes in a warm place. I spread a little melted butter to tops of rolls. This was not part of the recipe but I like the butter. NOTE: I turn light on in oven and place rolls there to rise. I take out of oven a few minutes before ready to bake so the I can heat oven.
• 5. Heat oven to 350 degrees; bake 15 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Spred more butter if desired. NOTE: It took about 23 minutes in my oven.

EASY BRAN BREAD ROLLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
• Stir flour, bran, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Beat egg, sugar, and canola oil in a separate bowl. Stir egg mixture into dry ingredients; beat in enough milk to make a stiff dough. Divide dough into 12 equal pieces and form each piece into a round ball. Place rolls on the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown and springy, about 50 minutes.