Soft Homemade Bread Machine Dinner Rolls Recipe (2024)

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The dough for these soft and fluffy dinner rolls is made in a bread machine – so easy!

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If you ever tried making dinner rolls from scratch, you know that it’s a pretty involved process. Kneading the dough by hand and letting it rise several times is not really a practical thing to do for today’s busy cook. Thank goodness there is an amazing shortcut for those of us who still want to eat homemade dinner rolls – a bread machine!

If you own a bread machine and are wondering how it can make dinner rolls when the loaf pan is shaped for a rectangular loaf of bread (not round dinner rolls), here’s how. The bread machine doesn’t do the actual shaping and baking of the dinner rolls. What it does is make the dough, which is the most time-consuming and labor-intensive part of making dinner rolls.

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You just put the dinner rolls ingredients in, press the Start button on the bread machine, and come back when the cycle is finished and take out the dough. My bread machine takes an hour and a half to make the dough, and you can find the length of your dough cycle by selecting “Dough” on the bread machine menu and the display shows how much time is left.

When the bread machine is finished making the dough for the dinner rolls, just take the dough out and divide into 15 equal parts. Roll each part into a ball – those balls are going to be your dinner rolls! Put those balls of dough in a baking dish and leave them at room temperature for 30 minutes – you will be amazed how big they’ll get, the rolls will double in size! Then put the rolls in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Take them out of the oven and enjoy those piping hot homemade dinner rolls!

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Fresh homemade dinner rolls are simply amazing, and nothing beats the smell of freshly baked bread! Everyone will be fighting to get the first taste of these warm delicious soft dinner rolls!

If you have any of these dinner rolls left over, you can still enjoy them the next day. The secret to reviving day-old dinner rolls is microwaving them! Put the leftover dinner roll in a microwave on High for 10 seconds (or whatever it takes to make it warm), and it will become so soft and warm, as if you just made it :)

Homemade dinner rolls also make a great breakfast the next morning – warm them up, split them and top with jam!

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Easy Soft Bread Machine Dinner Rolls Recipe

Making dinner rolls from scratch is incredibly easy when you use the bread machine to make the dough! These rolls are soft, fluffy, tender and so delicious!

Prep Time2 hours hrs

Cook Time15 minutes mins

Total Time2 hours hrs 15 minutes mins

Course: Bread

Cuisine: American

Servings: 15 rolls

Author: MelanieCooks.com

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Put water, egg, 2 tbsp softened butter, flour, sugar, yeast and salt into the bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer of your machine. In my bread machine, the order is as follows: water, egg and butter go in first, then flour goes on top (no mixing), then sugar on top in one corner, yeast on top in another corner, and salt in the 3rd corner (sugar, yeast and salt shouldn't touch each other).

  • Set the bread machine on Dough cycle and press Start.

  • When the bread machine Dough cycle is finished, take out the dough.

  • Spray a 9x13 baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.

  • Divide the dough into 15 equal parts and roll each part into a ball. Put the dough balls in a baking dish, making 3 rows of 5 balls each. Brush the rolls with 2 tbsp of melted butter. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 30 minutes at room temperature.

  • Preheat the oven to 375F.

  • Bake the rolls for 15 minutes.

  • Remove the rolls from the oven and brush the tops with remaining 1 tbsp of melted butter.

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FAQs

What is the difference between a soft roll and a dinner roll? ›

Soft rolls and hard rolls are yeast breads, but quick breads are chemically raised doughs (with baking powder or baking soda). Soft rolls would be dinner rolls or sandwich buns which are usually enriched with dairy, butter or some other fat, and normally are sweetened to some degree.

Why are my dinner rolls not light and fluffy? ›

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.

What type of flour is best for bread machine bread? ›

Be sure to use a flour made from hard wheat, which means it's high in protein, and therefore high in gluten. The gluten combines with water to form the elastic strands that trap carbon dioxide given off by yeast, allowing bread to rise.

Why are my homemade dinner rolls 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.

What is the secret of soft buns? ›

Flour isn't going to make the difference. In fact, use a high-protein flour for both, i.e. a “bread” flour. The secret to soft, light rolls, if you're looking for something like a dinner roll, is an enriched dough that contains butter or other dairy, eggs, or both.

What is a soft bread roll called? ›

Finger roll – soft roll about three times longer than it is wide. French roll – generic term for the bread roll. Also a sweeter, softer roll with milk added to the dough. Fritter is a stuffed bread roll.

What ingredient makes bread light and fluffy? ›

Adding sugar weakens the gluten structure, absorbs water, and eventually makes the bread lighter and softer. As a result, sugar improves the bread's taste, structure and texture. Yeast also eats up sugar to produce carbon dioxide, which raises the dough and makes bread fluffy.

How can I make my bread fluffier instead of dense? ›

Potato Flakes or Potato Water

Starch helps the dough by trapping the gas from the yeast in the dough and makes the bubbles stronger. This helps the bread to rise and be lighter and fluffier. If you are boiling potatoes, you can use the unsalted water in place of the water in your bread recipe to help out the yeast.

What temperature do you bake buns at? ›

Cover with a clean towel and let rise again until puffy and almost doubled, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Brush the tops of the buns lightly with the egg wash. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake the buns about 15 minutes, rotating halfway through baking, until the tops are golden brown.

What is one drawback of using a bread machine? ›

One disadvantage of using a bread maker as opposed to your hands is that the paddles are typically fixed, meaning they remain in the dough when baking, often leaving a hole in the middle of the loaf. Whilst this is not the biggest hinderance, it can be an annoyance to those who aim for gold standard loaves.

What is the best yeast to use in a bread machine? ›

The Very Best: Instant Yeast

Always have and always will. The yeast of choice in most restaurant kitchens and commercial bakeries, it's easy and convenient. Ever seen a bread recipe that asks you to mix the yeast with warm liquid and allow it to bubble first before using?

What happens if I use all-purpose flour in bread machine? ›

Yes! All-purpose flour has a 9% to 12% gluten content, while bread flour's gluten content falls in the 10% to 13% range. Even if your all-purpose flour lacks gluten, you can still use it in the bread machine. Again, the worst that will happen is that your bread will not rise as much as it would with bread flour.

Does letting bread rise longer make it fluffier? ›

Does Rising Bread Affect Its Texture? For a fluffy bread texture, the key is to let the bread rise long enough.

What is a soft roll used for? ›

* Soft roll is a cast padding , which is basically used in application related to surgery and operating procedures . *Soft roll has great strength and stretch resistance .

What are soft rolls made of? ›

Place bread flour, water, sugar, egg, 2 tablespoons softened butter, yeast, and salt into the pan of your bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Select the Dough cycle and press Start.

How do you eat soft rolls? ›

Dinner rolls are broken open with the hands, never cut with a knife. Butter is taken from the butter dish with the butter knife and placed on the side of the bread plate. Never butter bread directly from the butter dish. Pieces of bread are broken from the roll, buttered and eaten using the hands.

What is a dinner roll? ›

(ˈdɪnə rəʊl ) noun. a small round piece of bread provided as a side dish as part of a meal.

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