Daves Favorite Butter Pull Apart Rolls
This is the quintessential thanksgiving buttery, pull apart roll you want to use to sop up gravy and / or make lil turkey sammich's the next day. Obviously (!) these rolls are good any time - but they are mandatory on Thanksgiving around here.
Ingredients
Dough Ingredients
- 3½ C Flour - All Purpose
- 2 tsp Yeast
- ¼ C Dried Potato Flakes - the stuff that comes in a box that you mix with water to make instant mashed potatoes
- 3 Tbl Dry Milk Powder
- 1 Tbl Sugar - KAF recommended 2 - not entirely sure why we add sugar to bread?
- 1½ Tsp Salt
- 4 Tbl Butter - Softened
- ⅔ C Water - Lukewarm - like a nice bath temp
- ½ C Milk - Lukewarm - like a nice bath temp
After Baking
- 2 Tbl Butter - Melted - for the top of the baked buns
Instructions
- Add all ingredients for Dough into your mixer bowl and mix / knead with your dough hook until the dough is combined, smooth, and well kneaded.
- Place dough in a clean and oiled container or bowl to rise till doubled. (Maybe 1 - 1½ Hr.)
- Transfer dough to lightly floured surface and split dough into 16 portions (half / half again....)
- Form dough into balls, pinching dough on the underneath. Then cup your hand and rotate your hand in a circle and press down ever so slightly to tighten the circle and firm up the dough ball.
- Place the dough balls into a greased 8" or 9" cake pans - having space between the rolls.
- Allow the rolls to rise a second time to appx double again - which will take appx another 1 - 1½ hours. After about 30 minutes - heat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Once the rolls are risen to about double - bake them at 350℉ for 22 - 24 minutes - Until they are brown and done. (I always seem to bake mine a bit more - maybe my oven is off a smidge -- final internal temp is Appx 190℉ for bread.)
- Using a pastry brush, apply the melted butter to the top of the rolls.
Notes
Wow - yet another reason why I'm doing this blog - to see how many calories all my food has. Hard to believe one lil ol bun has 162 calories, but I just double checked and it seems right!
If you skip the last 2Tbl of melted butter over the top - you only save about 15 calories and 1 extra gram of fat. So - go ahead, slather away!
Nutrition
Calories: 162kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 4gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 13mgSodium: 274mgPotassium: 106mgFiber: 1gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 211IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 51mgIron: 1mg
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