60 Minute Dinner Rolls Recipe (By Hand and KitchenAid Mixer... (2024)

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My family LOVES fresh, soft, homemade, warm, juicy dinner rolls! I love to make my own so I can control the ingredients and have that truly homemade experience! It is so rewarding!

This recipe can be modified to use any flour that your family prefers to use! I made this with white flour for the demonstration, but even gluten-free flour, whole wheat flour and others all work well!

Here’s a quick video showing how to make these – then written and print-friendly instructions are below:

They are quite simple to make and they take only 60-minutes, which is record time for the Rhodes type rolls. I found the original idea on The Bumbling Baker when my family just wanted Rhodes type rolls that I really don’t buy anymore. And yes, I missed that homemade doughy goodness too!

Here’s the ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup low-fat milk
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tsps. salt
  • 3 tbsps. butter or margarine
  • 3 packages of dry active yeast or 6 3/4 teaspoons from bulk jar
  • 1 1/2 cups warm water (105F – 115F)
  • 5 – 6 cups flour of choice (some flours, like brown rice flour, will need extra modifications, but if you are use to working with these, you probably know the modifications to make :))

*Please note, this recipe works best with the ingredients at room temperature, but sometimes I forget to get them out earlier and it still is fine 🙂

Here’s how to make it:

  • In a bowl or a KitchenAid type mixer, you will want to dissolve and soak the yeast in the warm water.

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  • While this is soaking, in a saucepan on the stove, you will want to mixmilk, sugar, salt and butter together on low heat until all ingredients are mixed, dissolved and warmed.
  • Then cool slightly to lukewarm.
  • Then add the mixture from the saucepan to the dissolved yeast/water mixture along with 4-4.5 cups of the flour and start “mixing” in your mixer on low with the dough hook or by hand. This will be about 1-2 minutes.

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  • Then add the remaining flour 1/2 cup at a time and about 1 minute between additions until you have added all of the flour.

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  • Then “mix” for another 2 minutes, or knead by hand until the dough cleans the bowl and is a little sticky to the touch!

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  • Finally, remove your dough hook and it should fall into a nice ball of dough.
  • Pick up the ball and set in another greased bowl or remove this ball from this bowl for a minute while you grease this one.
  • Put the dough back in the greased bowl and rotate it a couple of times so that the whole thing is “greased.”
  • Cover with a towel in a warm spot for 15 minutes.

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  • At this point, flour a surface so that you can roll out the dough flat!
  • Then, using a roller, roll it flat to about 1/4 of an inch thick.

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  • After it is flat, then just use a pizza cutter to “cut it up” into as even as possible squares/rectangles – you will want 24. I personally stink at trying to get my dough square to cut squares, so I often combine the uneven corners to form a roll 🙂

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  • Then pick up each cut piece and tuck in the corners on the underside of the roll to form the roll and place the roll with the seams down on your baking pan! I personally cook them in a circle on a pie plate. I like the shape that they turn out to be when doing this. But you can also put them in muffin tins or square baking sheets too!

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  • Then cover your pan with the prepared/formed rolls with a towel and set in a warm place for another 15 minutes.
  • Then you are ready to bake them in the oven set at 425 degrees for 12 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown!

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  • Brush with butter after they come out if you want!
  • Serve warm!

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A couple of notes:

  • These can be made ahead of time and then warmed in the microwave for 15 seconds before serving too
  • You can also freeze the shaped dough and then when ready to make them, just thaw on a pan and pop in the oven when they have thawed and risen.
  • This recipe makes 24 rolls, which is way too much for our family (or rather, I know we would all happily eat 24 rolls, but we shouldn’t in one sitting!) and so you can cut the recipe in half, or freeze half of the dough for your own homemade Rhodes rolls!

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Here’s a printable recipe for you to put into your home binder! AND details on the Home Binder with FREE downloads are HERE.

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Recipe type: Side Dish

Author: Cassie from The Thrifty Couple

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Serves: 24

A quick, homemade version of Rhodes Rolls or soft, doughy rolls!

Ingredients

  • ½ cup low-fat milk
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 2 tps. salt
  • 3 tbps. butter or margarine
  • 3 packages of dry active yeast or 6¾ teaspoons from bulk jar
  • 1½ cups warm water (105F - 115F)
  • 5 - 6 cups flour of choice (some flours, like brown rice flour, will need extra modifications, but if you are use to working with these, you probably know the modifications to make :))

*Please note, this recipe works best with the ingredients at room temperature, but sometimes I forget to get them out earlier and it still is fine 🙂

Instructions

  1. • In a bowl or a KitchenAid type mixer, you will want to dissolve and soak the yeast in the warm water.
  2. • While this is soaking, in a saucepan on the stove, you will want to mix milk, sugar, salt and butter together on low heat until all ingredients are mixed, dissolved and warmed.
  3. • Then cool slightly to lukewarm.
  4. • Then add the mixture from the saucepan to the dissolved yeast/water mixture along with 4-4.5 cups of the flour and start "mixing" in your mixer on low with the dough hook or by hand. This will be about 1-2 minutes.
  5. • Then add the remaining flour ½ cup at a time and about 1 minute between additions until you have added all of the flour.
  6. • Then "mix" for another 2 minutes, or knead by hand until the dough cleans the bowl and is a little sticky to the touch!
  7. • Finally, remove your dough hook and it should fall into a nice ball of dough.
  8. • Pick up the ball and set in another greased bowl or remove this ball from this bowl for a minute while you grease this one.
  9. • Put the dough back in the greased bowl and rotate it a couple of times so that the whole thing is "greased."
  10. • Cover with a towel in a warm spot for 15 minutes.
  11. • At this point, flour a surface so that you can roll out the dough flat!
  12. • Then, using a roller, roll it flat to about ¼ of an inch thick.
  13. • After it is flat, then just use a pizza cutter to "cut it up" into as even as possible squares/rectangles - you will want 24. I personally stink at trying to get my dough square to cut squares, so I often combine the uneven corners to form a roll 🙂
  14. • Then pick up each cut piece and tuck in the corners on the underside of the roll to form the roll and place the roll with the seams down on your baking pan! I personally cook them in a circle on a pie plate. I like the shape that they turn out to be when doing this. But you can also put them in muffin tins or square baking sheets too!
  15. • Then cover your pan with the prepared/formed rolls with a towel and set in a warm place for another 15 minutes.
  16. • Then you are ready to bake them in the oven set at 425 degrees for 12 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown!
  17. • Brush with butter after they come out if you want!
  18. • Serve warm!

Notes

• These can be made ahead of time and then warmed in the microwave for 15 seconds before serving too
• You can also freeze the shaped dough and then when ready to make them, just thaw on a pan and pop in the oven when they have thawed and risen.
• This recipe makes 24 rolls, which is way too much for our family (or rather, I know we would all happily eat 24 rolls, but we shouldn't in one sitting!) and so you can cut the recipe in half, or freeze half of the dough for your own homemade Rhodes rolls!


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  1. Cindy Morrow

    When I was younger, I had a neighbor girl whose parents were from Canada, and we use this recipe with Parker House Rolls,…which are the same as Rhodes Rolls in the present day. At that time, we had to cut the Parker House Rolls when just thawing in half to make smaller pieces. When they had completely thawed, we would roll them in butter ( that had been warmed to a liquid) on all sides, and then roll them into a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. These pieces of roll were then put into an angel food cake baking tin. We would put the pieces side by side to make a layer, and then we would put either chopped walnuts or raisins on top of each layer, and then would continue to put layers of the roll pieces rolled in butter, cinnamon and sugar and then the the walnuts, or raisins, until they were about 3/4 of the way in the angel food cake baking tin. Sometimes we put a little extra of the cinnamon/sugar mix in between the layers too! We were then to let it set to double in size. I think that we used the oven set at like 100 degrees to do this, since we didn’t have a suitable place for them to rise. After they have risen, then we put them into the oven for 45 minutes to an hour,…and I am not sure of the oven temp here,…was either 350 or 425,….I really can’t remember (and I never had a written recipe of this,…all comes from making them when I was small). Maybe someone who bakes this type of thing would be able to tell you better. You will be able to tell when they are done as they get a medium brown color on the top. When they are completed baking,…then you flip the “coffeecake” over on your serving dish (so what you put in the tin first is now the top of the coffeecake) and then all of the cinnamon/sugar and butter mixture will run down and glaze the whole thing and some will run on to the serving dish. The name for this recipe was Hungarian Coffee Cake. It is served by picking one of the pieces off of the coffeecake,…so you eat it piece by piece rather than cutting a piece with a knife. I think that it is similar to what now is called monkey bread, but you can’t use biscuits like many monkey bread recipes call for. The recipe that we made ours from would make 2 coffee cakes,…and we would bake one and freeze the other ready to thaw to rise and bake. Or sometimes, we would bake both, and then freeze one that had already been baked,…that would only have to be taken out in enough time to thaw,….and could be warmed at a low temp in the oven. Enjoy! We made these the first time when we were about 7 or 8 years of age,….but it was fun doing it,…quite messy,….but still enjoyable. I bet your kids would enjoy doing this,….and feel a sense of accomplishment! LOL 🙂

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  2. Sally

    Hi,
    You mentioned in your recipe that if using rice flour there are modifications. Could you please explain this

    Reply

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60 Minute Dinner Rolls Recipe (By Hand and KitchenAid Mixer... (2024)

FAQs

What speed should I use for Kitchenaid dough? ›

For best results, you should only use speed 2. Using a lower speed won't provide enough momentum to knead the dough properly, and a higher speed may quickly overwork the dough.

Why did my dinner rolls come out hard? ›

Too much flour, or not the right kind, could be to blame. Dough made only from flour with a high or even average amount of protein (like bread flour or all-purpose flour) can become tough from overmixing. Protein gives bread structure in the form of gluten—the more you mix and move the dough, the more gluten you get.

Why aren't my dinner rolls soft? ›

Fluffy Dinner Rolls FAQs

If your dinner rolls aren't fluffy it could be because of one of two reasons. Either, you added too much flour or you possibly used all bread flour. Alternately, not giving your dinner rolls enough time to proof and get puffy before baking could yield dense rolls.

What makes dinner rolls tough? ›

Avoid adding too much extra flour to the dough.

These ingredients slow down gluten development and can make the dough a little sticky. Your instinct might be to add extra flour; however, any extra flour will create a denser, tougher roll instead of the light, fluffy, soft dinner roll we want.

How long to knead by hand vs mixer? ›

On a practical level, it takes up to 25 minutes—and some well-developed forearm muscles—to knead dough by hand, and just about 8 minutes to knead in the stand mixer with the dough hook. However, if you do not own a stand mixer, you can still mix dough by hand and make a good loaf of bread from most doughs.

What KitchenAid speed is best? ›

Speeds 2 and 3 generally are considered low speed, so use these if your recipe calls for low or medium-low speed. These speeds are perfect for jobs like slow mixing splashy batters, mashing, pulling meat or kneading doughs. Speeds 4 and 5 are best for recipes calling for mixing or beating on medium.

What is the secret to super soft bread? ›

Instant milk powder makes bread dough super soft and fluffy and also helps to give it a good rise. It also contributes to the dough staying nice and soft after baking for a little longer than a recipe that does not use milk powder.

What is the secret of soft buns? ›

Don't over flour the dough. Knead for 5-6 minutes until the dough is soft and smooth. Let the dough rise in a warm spot until doubled, about an hour or so. (I usually let the dough rise right in the mixing bowl, but you can transfer to a lightly greased bowl and cover.)

Why are my rolls dense and not fluffy? ›

There may be several reasons for a dense, cake like texture in bread. It may indicate the kneading wasn't enough for the gluten to develop properly, or the dough was proved for too short a time or the dough may have been too dry. It is also worth checking the flour you used.

Should you brush rolls with butter before or after baking? ›

Butter basting: Rolls can be brushed with butter before, during, or after baking. While it doesn't brown the surface as much as egg wash will, it does promote browning and adds a lot of flavor.

Why did my dinner rolls turn out dense? ›

Rolls that are not light and fluffy can be the result of using too much flour (not measuring the flour correctly, as we mention above), or not using the type of flour your recipe calls for. Another reason for dense tough rolls is overmixing, which will produce too much gluten.

How do you know when dinner rolls are done? ›

Most loaves and rolls will indeed be done when they register 190°F at their center. But some breads — baguettes, for instance — need to reach a higher internal temperature to be fully baked.

What speed setting for kneading dough? ›

Kneading Speeds

It is important to use only Speed 2, never higher or lower, when kneading yeast dough.

What number is medium high on a KitchenAid mixer? ›

This is also the speed for kneading dough with your hook. Medium speeds (4-5) are useful when mixing batter until it's smooth or ensuring all dry ingredients are thoroughly mixed in. Use these when the recipe calls for mixing or beating. Medium-high speeds (6-7) are used when the recipe calls for beating or creaming.

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