Simple, No-Fail Homemade Crescent Rolls

There are enough of times that I delineate shop bought rolls out of the freezer to occupation for dinner, but there's even thus zero quite similar homemade bread! Today I'm sharing my favorite homemade crescent rolls recipe amongst you. I brand these for many of our trouble solid unit of measurement gatherings together with when nosotros stimulate got company, together with fifty-fifty proceed a render of frozen ones to occupation for everyday dinners. I clipped the recipe out of the paper years agone (pre-Pinterest!) together with it genuinely is a no-fail, tried together with truthful winner!

Ingredients:

1 loving cup milk (can occupation whole or 2%)
2 packages yeast (4 1/2 teaspoons)
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 loving cup melted together with cooled shortening
1/2 loving cup sugar
iii eggs
iv cups flour
Melted butter (4 Tablespoons + a piddling to a greater extent than for brushing on afterwards baking)
Coarse tabular array salt (optional)

This recipe volition brand nigh 16-24 rolls, depending on how large you lot brand them. I almost ever double the recipe (I did for these photos) together with it's simply the correct size for my mixer.

Steps:

1. Heat milk to lukewarm (110 degrees). Add yeast together with permit stand upwardly five minutes. Add salt, shortening, sugar, together with eggs together with thus mix good (I occupation my dough claw amongst the mixer). Mix inwards flour inwards minor portions. When finished, the dough should endure soft (it won't shape a ball) together with volition endure a deport upon sticky. Here's what it looks similar at this point-

2. Set the dough inwards a warm place, lightly covered, together with permit it ascension until double inwards size. This volition accept a few hours.

Whoa!

3. Prepare to curlicue the dough out past times gathering all supplies. I abhor to stimulate got dough covered hands together with realize I forgot to exit something I'll need! You'll demand flour for dusting the counter, a rolling pin, melted butter, a pastry brush, together with something to cutting the dough similar a pizza cutter, every bit good every bit greased baking sheets or pans to seat the rolls in.

Divide the dough into 2 parts. (This volition brand xvi large, thick rolls. If you lot desire to stretch the recipe a bit, split upwardly the dough into iii parts together with it volition brand 24 rolls.) Sprinkle flour on your surface together with a piddling on piece of work past times of the dough, flour your hands together with rolling pin. Roll each slice into a apartment circle, nigh 12-14 inches across together with mayhap nigh 1/4 inch thick. (If you lot divided into iii parts your circle mightiness endure a piddling smaller together with dough a piddling thinner.)

4. Brush the circle of dough amongst melted butter,

together with thus cutting into 8 triangles. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pizza cutter makes this measuring a breeze!

5. Roll each slice starting amongst the long side, wrapping the betoken across the piece of work past times when you're finished. Bend rolls slightly into a curve.

At this betoken you lot stimulate got a few options:

For cooking rolls the same day-
Line them inwards a greased baking dish or canvass pan leaving around infinite inwards between. Allow them to ascension until nigh double inwards size, which mightiness accept an hr or two.

For making the rolls ahead of time-
I similar to lay them out on greased baking sheets together with flash freeze them, together with thus shop them inwards a ziplock pocketbook until needed. Or, if I'm making them a few days earlier an event, I become ahead a seat them inwards greased aluminum pans together with thus comprehend tightly amongst foil, together with thus shop them inwards the freezer. Remove from the freezer together with allow them to thaw together with and thus ascension to nigh double the size earlier baking, this volition in all likelihood accept 3-4 hours. You could also starting fourth dimension this measuring the nighttime earlier past times placing frozen rolls inwards the fridge if needed, together with thus allow them to ascension inwards a warm spot the side past times side day.

6. Bake them! Brush the tops amongst to a greater extent than melted butter, together with I similar to sprinkle a fleck of course of educational activity tabular array salt on the tops but that's optional. Bake inwards a preheated 375 marking oven for nigh 10-15 minutes (depending on the size you lot made, the larger rolls volition accept a fleck longer) until tops are golden chocolate-brown together with centers are non doughy. Towards the terminate of the cooking time, comprehend lightly amongst a canvass of foil if they are getting also brown.

They are soft together with buttery every bit is, but would also endure delicious amongst diced fresh rosemary sprinkled on piece of work past times added to the butter together with tabular array salt earlier baking.

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