Fluffy Buttermilk Potato Rolls!

Buttermilk Potato Rolls!

 You need this recipe, you really need this recipe.  Especially if you are planning to cook this Holiday Season!  I have been testing some recipes to use myself and this one is high on my list of favorites. 

 This comes from a great blog called Mel's Kitchen Cafe. Found here. If you follow the directions completely they will turn out just like you dreamed of!  There are some special ingredients but nothing you can't handle.  Wheat flour, bread flour, mashed potatoes, and buttermilk are the ones you may need to come up with in advance but just keep in mind this recipe is totally worth it!  I will give you the list of ingredients and then turn you over to Mel because she does a super job of describing the process. 

 The only change I will make next time is to double or even try tripling the sugar.  These are yummy but have more of a bread taste to them and I will admit I like sweetness to my rolls.  You really can't beat these for the light texture and with butter they are awesome!  


Fluffy Buttermilk Potato Rolls 


Ingredients

1 1/2 cups mashed potatoes
1/2 cup butter - room temperature (I microwave mine on defrost for 20 seconds watching carefully until just  softening)
2 cups buttermilk, slightly warmed (same as above)
1 1/2 Tablespoon instant yeast
2 large eggs (I place mine in warm water for about 10 minutes to bring to room temperature)
2 Tablespoons sugar (I will use 1/4 cup next time)
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
4 cups whole wheat flour
3-4 cups bread flour

Now follow the link above to mix ingredients and enjoy these fantastic rolls!  

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Overnight Cinnamon Rolls

     These are my tried and true cinnamon rolls.  I have made these for my family through all their growing up years and they never failed to please.  They are less time consuming than most recipes because you put the dough together one day and pop them into the fridge.  The first rise happens overnight while you rest!  Take them out the next day and they are ready to roll out and shape into regular rolls or cinnamon rolls.  Let them rise on the cookie sheet, cook, and ice and you have the most melt in your mouth rolls you have ever tasted!   Your family will love you!  What are we waiting for?  Let's cook!

 

Light Refrigerator Rolls  

1 cup shortening

3/4 cup sugar

2 teaspoons salt

1 cup boiling water

2 teaspoons yeast (instant)

1/2 cup room temperature water

4 eggs

7 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup cold water

     In a large bowl, cream shortening, sugar and salt.  Add boiling water and stir until mixture is smooth and most of shortening is melted.  Let this cool until it is just warm.  Add yeast and 1/2 cup warm water.  Beat eggs and add to mixture.  Add flour alternately with cold water and stir with a large spoon until mixture is well combined and smooth.  It will be quite sticky but will come together when stirred.  If you have a well fitting lid, place this on the bowl.  If you don't have a lid spray the top of the dough lightly with non stick spray and cover the bowl with plastic.  Place bowl in the fridge overnight to rise. 

     The next day, take dough out and place on a floured surface.  Sprinkle with flour and sprinkle rolling pin with flour also.  Roll dough into a rectangle that is about 3/8ths inch thick.  

     This is where I don't have a lot of measurements.  I take a 1/2 cup of butter and melt it in a cup in the microwave.  Pour it over the dough covering as much area as possible.  Use a pastry brush to spread the butter over the surface until a thin layer covers it.  Mix about 1 cup of sugar with 2 teaspoons of cinnamon well and then sprinkle this over the dough until it is covered with as much as you like.  Sprinkle raisins over the surface if you are adding them.  

     Starting with the longest side, begin rolling the dough and continue until it is rolled into a tube. 

Prepare baking sheets by spraying with cooking spray.  Cut a piece of thread about 1 yard long and fold it in the center to double it.  Slide the thread under the dough and bring to the top about 1 inch from the end.  Cross the thread and pull until it cuts through the dough.  This is much better than using a knife to cut the dough because it won't mash the dough but cuts it leaving it in a circle shape. 

     Lay the cinnamon roll dough on the cookie sheet about 1 inch apart.  Let rolls rise until double in size.  Cook at 400 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes until light brown.  Take out to cool.  

     As rolls are cooling make some icing.  I use any unused melted butter plus another 1/2 cup of melted butter in a bowl.  Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and enough powdered sugar to make icing that is not too thick and easy to spread.  While the rolls are still warm but not hot, spread the icing on.  Do not cover rolls until they are completely cooled.  Enjoy!

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Parbaked Dinner Rolls

 It took quite a while to decide what to give for neighbor gifts this year.  If you read the post on apple butter that I made late this fall I mentioned that I wanted to give cute little tubs of it to my neighbors for Christmas.  But what good is apple butter with nothing to put it on?  So it made sense that it would be great to combine it with rolls.....but then came the problem.  How to get them to them fresh and hot which is obviously the most fantastic way to eat rolls with cinnamony (is that a word?) sweet apple butter on them, right?  So the testing began.  No one I talked to had ever parbaked rolls and many wondered if that was even possible.  I took my favorite Sweet Dinner Rolls recipe from allrecipes and even researched on the internet and found that there is a way to parbake (partially bake) the dough so that they can either be frozen or refrigerated and finish cooking at another time!  It really works and makes it so you can have hot rolls but prepare them ahead of time!  They made fun gifts because neighbors could eat them when it was convenient but also enjoy them hot.  Here is how to do it.

 First make a batch of this roll dough:

Sweet Dinner Rolls
 Ingredients

1/2 cup warm water (110 degrees F)

1/2 cup warm milk

1 egg (mixed in with a fork)

1/3 cup butter, softened

1/3 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon salt

3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast (1 Tblspn.)

 I make it in my bread machine following the instructions it gives me.  I add the liquids first then the dry ing. and last I make a well and put the yeast in it. ( I also use instant yeast instead of regular).  Set the bread machine to the dough setting and press start.  You can make it by hand the usual way you make rolls, but I love the way my bread machine turns out a perfectly risen dough each time and it is just sooo easy!
While the dough is rising go ahead and get your pans ready.  This is what I did for the neighbor gifts:

Spray pan with cooking spray, then if you want a space in the middle to put tubs of butter or apple butter, wrap two small canning jar rings with foil and set in the middle of the pan. 

When the dough is ready, take it out of the machine and divide the dough in half and those halves in half.  Keep squeezing each portion in half until you have 16 little equal size portions of dough.

  Form rolls by taking dough and pushing it up through an O formed by your thumb and middle finger.  This makes the top of the roll smooth and pretty.  Set the dough evenly around the pan with about an inch in between and cover with a light cloth to rise for about an hour.  Rolls should touch when they have risen enough.

To parbake them when you want to finish baking at a later time, just preheat the oven to 250 degrees.  Bake your rolls for about 11 minutes.  Watch rolls and remove when they just have a hint of golden on the top.

Remove them from the oven and let them cool.  Remove the foil rings in the center and add the tubs of butter. 

I included a note telling them that these were only partly baked and how to finish them.

Bake these at 400 degrees for 3 to 5 minutes until golden brown!  Top with apple butter or strawberry butter!
Great for Christmas gifts but just as wonderful any time of the year!