Sweet Dinner Rolls

This is an "oldie, but a goodie" recipe for a sweet, buttery, dinner gyre for your Easter holiday. This recipe tin live made ahead of the holidays, partially baked together with hence simply tossed inward the oven, to destination baking, simply earlier the large dinner. They are delicious, slow to brand together with freeze beautifully.

½ loving cup warm water
1/3 loving cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
½ loving cup warm milk
1/3 loving cup soft butter
1 packet of dry out yeast (see note)
1 egg (room temperature if possible)
3¾ cups all purpose flour

Heat the H2O together with milk until warm (I utilization the microwave). Put it into the large bowl of a stand upwards mixer together with stir inward the carbohydrate together with yeast. Let it sit down for almost 10 minutes (it should teach foamy). After 10 minutes, add together the salt, butter, egg together with 1 loving cup of flour, mix well.

Continue adding the balance of the flour, ½ loving cup at a time. Stop your stand upwards mixer every in 1 lawsuit inward a acre together with scrape downward the within of your bowl together with plough the entire dough mixture over (this insures that all of the flour gets mixed inward completely and evenly).
Remove the dough from the bowl together with spray the bowl amongst cooking spray. Return the dough to the bowl together with spritz the top of the dough (a little) amongst to a greater extent than cooking spray (so the plastic roll doesn't stick to the dough). Cover the bowl amongst plastic roll together with house inward the warmest utilization of your kitchen for an sixty minutes to raise. Keep inward heed that marble counters are non the warmest house to proceed your bowl of dough.

After an hour, or afterward the dough has doubled inward size (whichever comes first), force the air out of the dough amongst your hands. Roll out 12" "ropes" of dough together with necktie a knot inward the middle, similar this:To consummate the "knot", tuck 1 loose halt nether the gyre together with convey the other loose halt over the top together with tuck it within of the master copy knot, house inward greased muffin tins. They volition hold back similar this:
Spritz the top of the rolls amongst (just a little) cooking spray together with encompass amongst plastic roll again. Let them heighten until they are double inward size (35-45 minutes).

If y'all desire to partially bake them (they volition live similar brownish & serve rolls), bake inward a preheated 325 oven for 10 minutes. Remove from pans together with cool completely (then freeze). When it is fourth dimension to utilization them, defrost them for almost xv minutes, hence bake inward a preheated 375 oven for almost 8-10 minutes.

If desire to bake them correct away (after they accept risen inward the pans), bake inward preheated 350 oven for 12-15 minutes (depending on how hot your oven runs, simply proceed an oculus on them afterward 12 minutes).

NOTE: I purchase volume yeast, so, when a recipe calls for a packet of yeast, I simply utilization a tablespoon (that is a piddling extra, but industrial plant well).