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Two soft dinner rolls with butter sitting on a plate.

Homemade Soft Dinner Rolls Recipe in the Bread Machine

This Homemade Soft Dinner Rolls Recipe in the Bread Machine is a shortcut for soft, fluffy, rolls that will melt in your mouth.

Equipment

  • Bread Machine
  • 9 x 13 Baking Dish
  • Pastry Scraper, optional

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup warm milk do not heat the milk over 110 degrees
  • 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
  • 1 large egg, beaten
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp active dry yeast
  • melted butter to brush on top of rolls before baking

Instructions
 

  • Add warm milk (not more than 110 degrees), vanilla, and beaten egg into a mixing bowl. Don't heat the milk to more than 110 degrees or your egg will scramble.
  • Pour the milk mixture into the bread machine.
  • Add pats of butter to the liquid.
  • Gently add the flour so it sits on top of the liquid. Create a small well in the flour for the rest of the ingredients.
  • Add the rest of the dry ingredients in order.
  • Turn the bread maker to the dough setting. My bread machine dough cycle takes one and a half hours.
  • Once the bread machine is finished, place dough onto a lightly floured surface.
  • Roll into 24 balls and place into a greased baking pan. If you want to weigh the balls, the pieces of dough are roughly 1.2 oz. to 1.5 oz. each. Weighing the dough will make your rolls more uniform in size.
  • Once the dough balls are all made, brush them with melted butter.
  • Cover with a towel and let the dough rise in a warm place for one to one-and-a-half hours or until double in bulk.
  • Bake rolls at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Serve hot rolls with butter, honey, and jam.
  • Store the baked dinner rolls at room temperature in an airtight container for 2 to 4 days.

Notes

TIP: Cut portions of the dough with a pastry cutter to easily shape the dough into balls.