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I have been fiddling around a bit lately with my Fluffy Dinner Rolls recipe. Not because it’s broken or anything. 🙂 For the past couple of years it has been my go to recipe for quick rolls on a weeknight or for sunday dinner. However, I wanted a great roll recipe that can be made in 60 minutes or less, tastes fabulous and incorporates some wheat flour. (Without any groans, or comments like…”Um, Mom. What are you trying to pull here? These rolls have wheat in them don’t they? They look like a hockey puck!”) Comments like that sometimes spill out of the mouths of the children living here. I try to just smile and take it in stride. I don’t like to eat hocky puck rolls either.
So, I have been tweaking and fiddling with my list of ingredients, working towards a fluffy (non hocky puck textured) honey wheat roll my family would enjoy. I am really quite superbly pleased to let you know that this final Fluffy Honey Wheat Dinner Roll recipe I have for you today has received the thumbs up from every member of my family. My crew loves them so much, I have made them 3 times in the past several weeks. They are that good.
Hot.
Dang.
Let me show you how to make them. You, Me and your hocky puck of wonder.
1. Preheat your oven to 170 degrees.
2. Into a stand mixer place 2 cups wheat flour (I used freshly ground hard white winter wheat…but any wheat flour will do).
Add 1 cup white flour
and 1/4 cup of honey.
3. Pour yourself 3/4 cup of milk and heat it up in the microwave for 2 minutes. Add it to the mixing bowl along with 3/4 cup hot water. Your hot water should be hot to the touch, but not so hot that it burns your hand when you touch it. 🙂
4. Add 1 teaspoon of salt and 6 tablespoons softened butter. Turn the mixer to low-speed and allow the ingredients to blend together for about 1 minute.
5. Add 1 tablespoon of yeast (I use active dry). Mix for about 30 seconds.
6. While the machine is mixing add 1 more cup of white flour. Allow the dough to mix for another minute or so. The dough should start to pull away from the sides of the bowl. This is an indication that you have enough flour. If the dough remains stuck to the sides of the bowl then sprinkle a bit more flour (up to 1/2 a cup) into the bowl. Once you have the correct amount of flour added, turn the mixer to medium speed and let the dough mix for 5 minutes.
7. Grab a 9×13 pan and coat the bottom and sides with some butter.
8. Place the dough into the middle of the pan.
9. Using a sharp knife, cut the dough into 16 equal pieces.
Then roll each piece into a ball.
10. Place the pan into your warm oven and let the rolls rise for about 15 minutes, or until doubled in size.
11. Turn your oven up to 350 degrees. Leave the rolls in the oven while the temperature rises. Allow the rolls to bake until golden brown. Mine took about 13 minutes.
12. Remove the pan from the oven and brush soft butter over the top of each roll.
13. Allow them to rest in the pan for about 5 minutes, then serve and enjoy!
Ingredients
- 2 C wheat flour
- 2 C white flour, divided
- 3/4 C hot milk
- 3/4 C hot water
- 1/4 C honey
- 1 t salt
- 6 T butter, softened
- 1 T yeast (I use active dry)
Instructions
1. Preheat your oven to 170 degrees.
2. Into a stand mixer place 2 cups wheat flour (I used freshly ground hard white winter wheat...but any wheat flour will do) Add 1 cup white flour and 1/4 cup of honey.
3. Pour yourself 3/4 cup of milk and heat it up in the microwave for 2 minutes. Add it to the mixing bowl along with 3/4 cup hot water. Your hot water should be hot to the touch, but not so hot that it burns your hand when you touch it. 🙂
4. Add 1 teaspoon of salt and 6 tablespoons softened butter. Turn the mixer to low-speed and allow the ingredients to blend together for about 1 minute.
5. Add 1 tablespoon of yeast (I use active dry). Mix for about 30 seconds.
6. While the machine is mixing add 1 more cup of white flour. Allow the dough to mix for another minute or so. The dough should start to pull away from the sides of the bowl. This is an indication that you have enough flour. If the dough remains stuck to the sides of the bowl then sprinkle a bit more flour (up to 1/2 a cup) into the bowl. Once you have the correct amount of flour added, turn the mixer to medium speed and let the dough mix for 5 minutes.
7. Grab a 9x13 pan and coat the bottom and sides with some butter.
8. Place the dough into the middle of the pan.
9. Using a sharp knife, cut the dough into 16 equal pieces.
Then roll each piece into a ball.
10. Place the pan into your warm oven and let the rolls rise for about 15 minutes, or until doubled in size.
11. Turn your oven up to 350 degrees. Leave the rolls in the oven while the temperature rises. Allow the rolls to bake until golden brown. Mine took about 13 minutes.
12. Remove the pan from the oven and brush soft butter over the top of each roll.
13. Allow them to rest in the pan for about 5 minutes, then serve and enjoy!
Have you tried freezing these before or after baking them? I’d like to make some beforehand for Christmas then bring them to my parents and bake them there!
Anneli,
Might I suggest the following recipe to use for frozen dough. https://jamiecooksitup.net/2011/11/butterflake-frozen-roll-dough/
The Fluffy Honey Wheat Rolls with rise up for a while (even in your freezer) and leave you a mess. Best of luck to you!
~Jamie
I made these rolls last night and it was my very first attempt at making rolls of any variety. I’m fairly clumsy when it comes to baking and I don’t do it very often so I expected my first batch of these to turn out like hockey pucks. They didn’t. They were amazing. Big and fluffy and so soft. I took some in to work today and when I reheated them in our little oven, you could smell the honey all over the office. My employees slapped some butter on some of them and declared them fabulous. You’ve really given me an easy recipe that I can make so I can stop buying mass produced bread and start making my own. Thank you so much! My goal for 2014 is to make more stuff from scratch. This was a great way to kick it off. Happy baking!
I’ve tried your Fluffy Dinner Rolls and this Honey Wholewheat rolls and they are exquisite! It’s so simple and quick to put together. I’m using some of the dough for Cinnamon Rolls and I’m waiting eagerly for them to come out of the oven. I even made some flat bread in the pan, lovely.
The rolls are indeed fluffy and divine. Thanks for perfecting the recipe.
Ok so I am an avid baker and I have made bread several times. I have never left a comment on a recipe but I had to with this one. This bread is sooooo good and so easy! I made honey butter and brushed it on the tops for extra sweetness. This will be my go to recipe and my kids love them too! Thanks for posting it!
Thank you so much for sharing these rolls! I just made a batch and they are glorious!! Soft, fluffy, and flavorful!!
Jamie,
I LOVE your site and your recipes. I’d like to try this recipe for a party I’m having tomorrow. Do you think I could form the rolls, then put in the fridge overnight and bake in the morning (letting rise longer than normal before baking?). Thank you!
Hi Kendra,
Thanks for your kind words about my site. So happy to hear you are enjoying it. As for your question, I would be careful about making them a day ahead. The recipe is designed so that the rolls rise quickly. I’m not sure how this particular recipe would work rising in the fridge. My thoughts are that it won’t work out very well. I have tried doing that with other roll recipes and they have never risen quite like I am hoping they will. So (especially since you are planning them for guests) I would stick with making them the day of. Hope this helps. Best of luck to you!
~Jamie
Jamie: have just come across your website and just had to try the wonderful-looking whole wheat rolls! They are in the oven now so cannot comment yet but from reading reviews I am sur ether will be scrumptious! My deliema? What do I do if I have an electric oven which heats up with an upper and lower coil which of course would burn the rolls as the oven was preheating! I used another oven to rise at 170 and then transferred to a second oven which was already preheated to 350 to cook. Did not know what else to do! Fortunately I had the two ovens! Hope they come out well!
Hi Jamie, I am making my first attempt at yeast rolls and have a novice question. Are you using a dough hook or just the regular mixing paddle? I can’t tell from the pictures and although you state mix the dough- just want to check “how to”. thanks!