6/10 - The Best Dinner Rolls!

Brushed with Butter + Honey mixture after proofed...minutes before popping into the oven



Fresh out of the oven



Sweet caramelized tops


insides nice and moist and airy...outside gives a nice bite




Ingredients:

• warm water - 278 g (64%)
  
• butter - 22 g (5%)
  
• ap flour (sifted)* - 434 g (100%)
• milk powder - 22 g (5%)
• sugar - 35 g (8%)
• salt - 8 g - 1.8%
• yeast - 9 g (2%)

for butter honey (optional)

• melted butter - 2 tbsp
• honey - 1.5 tbsp

Steps:

1. pop butter into mixing bowl
2. pour hot / warm water on the butter and allow it to soften
3. sift flour + mix all other dry ingredients in order into the mixer
4. set bread machine to "sweet" bread dough...
5. walk away for 1 hr 35 min
6. take out dough from machine onto tabletop
7. cut dough into 16 equal pieces
   
8. roll into balls and place in a 4x4 shape in a stainless steel baking pan
9. proof for 45 minutes
10. preheat oven 375 degrees
11. melt butter and stir with honey in a small bowl
12. use a brush and liberally brush entire tops of the bread incuding the intersections between doughballs (this allows for entire top to brown when it expands in the oven)
13. place into the middle of the oven and set timer to 20 minutes
14. after 10 minutes, rotate tray 180 degrees
15. when timer goes off, turn down oven to 340 degrees (tops of bread should be golden brown now but edges still light
16. microwave honey butter mixture for 20 sec and brush entire bread tops again
17. place into oven and set timer for 10 minutes
18. take out of the oven and remove immediately from pan onto a wire rack to cool completely...
19. allow 30minute to cool, then dig in
    

* sifting flour allows for lighter bread...tried it before without sifting and much denser...i didn't beleive it myself
** used double fiber Eagle Mills All Natural All Purpose Unbleached Flour from costco

Result:

• The best damn dinner rolls in the world!
  
• love the texture...very similar to pain de mie texture which has more of a bite than boring old store bought dinner rolls...
• the honey tops are very nice and just to the point of caramelisation but not burnt and bitter...
• ate one after it was cooled and it was slightly dry...so maybe increase moisture next time
• love the color and shine of the rolls
  

mistake: i did not cool it on a rack but instead left it in the baking pan and bottom got lil soggy because of the honey mixture

Next time: try to bake at 350 degree oven for 30 minutes therefore don't need to turn down oven midway...maybe the tops won't be as browned though...slightly dry if i had to be superpicky, therefore try adding slightly more water to the mix