Month: October 2021

Perfect Zucchini Breakfast Muffins

Yes, I recognize that zucchini season is over this year, but maybe you’re like me and you have a summer squash or two still sitting on your counter and can’t allow them to go to waste. Our zucchini plants didn’t amount to much this year, but we had a friend who had an excessive amount of volunteer plants come up. He brought us a number of zucchini a few weeks ago, and I set about to create perfect zucchini breakfast muffins, looking for a balance between flavor and healthier ingredients. 

I think I may have hit the jackpot. The Mr. has been eating four of them for breakfast. My daughter loves them for a treat after dinner, and I have been bringing one or two for a mid morning snack. In a 24 hour period, I believe I made three batches. If that doesn’t tell you they are good, I don’t know what does. I threw about a dozen in the freezer for future snacks and we have been devouring the rest (don’t mind me while I eat two as I type). 

I knew I could likely wait until next year to share this when the timing was right. But these perfect zucchini breakfast muffins are simply too good to share. I know the growing season is finished in Wisconsin, but I am hoping my friends out of the midwest will love to put these together. 

One more thing: The Mr. has always complained when I use banana as a sweetener in baked goods that aren’t supposed to taste like banana. He doesn’t love banana bread to start with. He didn’t even notice the banana in these. Cool, right? 

Okay, enough chatter! Ready to bake? I hope so!

Your Ingredients

  • ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
  • ⅓-½ cup real maple syrup, depending on your sweetness level
  • 1 ripe banana 
  • ¼ cup plain Greek yogurt (or Triple Zero Vanilla-no added sugar), room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla 
  • 2 eggs, room temperature
  • ½ tablespoon cinnamon 
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 ¾ cup whole wheat flour
  • ½ cup walnuts
  • ½ cup chocolate chips (optional)
  • 2 cups shredded zucchini, with the water rung out

Your Steps to Perfect Zucchini Breakfast Muffins

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare 15 muffin tin vessels with liners or by greasing. 

In a large bowl, mash the ripe banana. Add maple syrup, Greek yogurt, vanilla and eggs. Combine well. Stir in the melted coconut oil. 

Place flour in the bowl. On top of that, add cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir into the wet ingredients until just combined. Add walnuts, chocolate chips, and zucchini. Mix just enough to combine, but make sure you get to the bottom of the bowl (I always miss that!). 

Fill muffin vessels ¾ of the way full. Bake for 16-20 minutes, until a toothpick can be inserted and when removed, comes out clean. 

Why did I go muffin instead of bread? I wanted to put serving size treats in the freezer. Then they could go into lunch boxes in the morning and thaw by lunch time. Not a bad idea, right? 

  • Mix up that banana: potato masher works great!
  • Add in the eggs!
  • Dry ingredients: Carefully incorporate to skip an extra bowl.
  • Zucchini, nuts, and some chocolate of course.
  • Getting ready to bake!
  • Let’s snack!

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Perfect Zucchini Breakfast Muffins

The perfect balance between good for you ingredients and flavor and texture, these perfect zucchini breakfast muffins are sure to be a hit!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 16 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 15 muffins

Ingredients
  

  • ¼ cup coconut oil melted
  • ⅓-½ cup real maple syrup depending on your sweetness level
  • 1 ripe banana
  • ¼ cup plain Greek yogurt room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 eggs room temperature
  • ½ tablespoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 ¾ cup whole wheat flour
  • ½ cup walnuts
  • ½ cup chocolate chips optional
  • 2 cups shredded zucchini with the water rung out

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare 15 muffin tin vessels with liners or by greasing.
  • In a large bowl, mash the ripe banana. Add maple syrup, Greek yogurt, vanilla and eggs. Combine well. Stir in the melted coconut oil.
  • Place flour in the bowl. On top of that, add cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir into the wet ingredients until just combined.
  • Add walnuts, chocolate chips, and zucchini. Mix just enough to combine, but make sure you get to the bottom of the bowl.
  • Fill muffin vessels ¾ of the way full. Bake for 16-20 minutes, until a toothpick can be inserted and when removed, comes out clean.
Keyword apple dessert, Breakfast, clean eating, muffins, Quick Bread, sweets, zucchini
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Savory Venison and Wild Rice Bake

Last Updated on February 23, 2024 by Jess

Ready for some savory venison and wild rice bake? I am so excited to share! Being a northern Wisconsin family, it may come as no surprise that a primary protein source at our house is venison. We harvest 2-4 deer a year between the gun and bow season and butcher them ourselves. Using our Kitchen Aid mixer, we grind upwards of 60 pounds of venison a year, which we use instead of ground beef or turkey 90% of the time. 

I’m always looking for new ways to use it, and this was a fun recipe to develop from scratch a few years ago. This venison and wild rice bake has a feel of tater tot hotdish (I’m close to the Minnesota border, don’t ya know?) with a true from scratch taste. You won’t find any “cream of whatever” soups in the ingredients; only true delicious wholesome foods here. I hope it becomes a go to comfort food for you like it has for us. 

Oh! And no ground venison? No problem! Substitute your favorite ground protein: beef, turkey, you name it. 

The ingredients For Venison and Wild Rice bake

  • 1 pound ground venison, seasoned with salt and pepper 
  • 6 cups low sodium chicken stock, divided
  • 1 cup long grain rice
  • 1 cup wild rice
  • 2 cups carrots, diced
  • 1 ¼ cup onion (1 large), diced
  • 1 ¼ cup celery (6 stalks), diced
  • 2 cups broccoli, diced
  • 1 cup mushrooms, sliced
  • Olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons sage
  • 2 teaspoons thyme
  • 1 cup milk
  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • 3 tablespoons flour

Your Steps

In a medium saucepan, bring 5 cups chicken stock to a boil. Add sage, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, 1/2 teaspoon garlic and wild rice. Cover, lower to a simmer, and cook for 10 minutes. Add long grain rice and cook for an additional 25-30 minutes, stirring periodically to check that you still have water. You want your rice to just be tender. Test it at 40 minutes. If it gets over cooked, it will be mush once you bake it.

Meanwhile, dice and chop the onion, celery, carrots, broccoli, and mushrooms. Heat a large kettle (I love my cast iron Dutch oven) with ½ to 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add the vegetables (except the mushrooms) remaining garlic, salt, pepper, sage, and thyme, cooking on a medium heat for ten minutes. Add mushrooms and cook for an additional five minutes. Remove the vegetables from the kettle and place them in a large bowl. In the same pan (The less dishes, the better, right?), cook the ground venison (or hamburger or turkey) until no longer pink. Stir into the bowl of vegetables along with cooked rice. 

Now for the Creamy part

In the same kettle, melt the butter under medium heat. Stir in flour and continue to stir until you have a beautiful golden brown color. To this, add milk, 1/4 of a cup at a time, whisking until well combined and thickened. Repeat with the remaining chicken stock. Pepper to taste. Stir in to the vegetables, rice, and browned venison. Taste once more, adding salt and pepper as needed.

Spread the mixture into a greased casserole dish and bake uncovered for 20 minutes at 425 degrees, until just crispy on the top and hot all the way through. Often, I will prep mine in the morning or the day before and refrigerate until we are ready to eat. If baked after being refrigerated, bake covered for 15 minutes and then gave it an additional 15-20 minutes without a cover. It will be perfectly crispy on the top and creamy in the middle. A wonderful comfort food. 

Sauté those vegetables.
Check that beautiful roux.
Slow and steady with the milk and stock.
Pour it in and mix it up!
Almost ready, just bake it!
So comforting. Yum.

Tools of the Trade

What are some tools I can’t live without? First, my Pyrex baking dishes are a go to for all things baked. And I love a lot of baked dishes. I also really dig my flexible cutting boards and my goodness, as silly as this sounds, this is my favorite whisk. I have had it for years and it’s truly the only one I use.

Savory Venison Wild Rice Bake

Savory herbs, two types of rice, and ground venison come together for a delicious venison and wild rice bake.
5 from 10 votes
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Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Course dinner
Cuisine American
Servings 8 people

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pound ground venison seasoned with salt and pepper
  • 6 cups low sodium chicken stock divided
  • 1 cup long grain rice
  • 1 cup wild rice
  • 2 cups carrots diced
  • 1 ¼ cup onion 1 large, diced
  • 1 ¼ cup celery 6 stalks, diced
  • 2 cups broccoli diced
  • 1 cup mushrooms sliced
  • Olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons sage
  • 2 teaspoons thyme
  • 1 cup milk
  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • 3 tablespoons flour

Instructions
 

  • In a medium saucepan, bring 5 cups chicken stock to a boil. Add sage, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, 1/2 teaspoon garlic and wild rice. Cover, lower to a simmer, and cook for 10 minutes.
  • Add long grain rice and cook for an additional 30-35 minutes, stirring periodically to check that you still have water. You want your rice to just be tender. Test it at 40 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, dice and chop the onion, celery, carrots, broccoli, and mushrooms. Heat a large kettle with ½ to 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add the vegetables (except the mushrooms) remaining garlic, salt, pepper, sage, and thyme, cooking on a medium heat for ten minutes.
  • Add mushrooms and cook for an additional five minutes. Remove the vegetables from the kettle and place them in a large bowl.
  • In the same pan, add an additional 1/2 tablespoon olive oil and cook the ground venison (or hamburger or turkey) until no longer pink. Stir into the bowl of vegetables along with cooked rice.
  • In the same kettle, melt the butter under medium-low heat. Stir in flour and continue to stir until you have a beautiful golden brown color. To this, add milk, 1/4 of a cup at a time, whisking until well combined and thickened. Repeat with the remaining chicken stock. Pepper to taste.
  • Stir in to the vegetables, rice, and browned venison. Taste once more, adding salt and pepper as needed.
  • Spread the mixture into a greased casserole dish and bake uncovered for 20 minutes at 425 degrees, until just crispy on the top and hot all the way through.

Notes

This can be prepped early, say the night before or in the morning. If baked after being refrigerated, bake covered for 15 minutes and then gave it an additional 15-20 minutes without a cover. It will be perfectly crispy on the top and creamy in the middle.
Keyword from scratch, rice pilaf, vegetables, venison, venison recipe, whole foods, wild rice
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Peanut Butter and Oat Brownies

As a high school teacher, I get invited to a number of graduation parties every year. I love celebrating their accomplishments and walking through the shrine that shows them growing up through the years. ⁠I also LOVE when they have brownies for dessert. Brownies are a top treat for me, and it’s a rare day that I turn one down. I’m always looking for a new recipe. These peanut butter and oat brownies are gluten free and free of refined sugar. So good!

This recipe was inspired by a Taste of Home magazine recipe. I put my own spin on a brownie bar that I think turned out pretty darn incredible. Bonus points for them being gluten free with no refined sugar (depending on your chocolate chips!). Win, win right? Excuse me while I eat the whole pan!⁠

Ready to get baking? Let’s go!

Your Ingredients⁠

  • 1/3 cup oat flour (I grind old fashioned oats myself in a food processor)⁠
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa powder⁠
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt⁠
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder⁠
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla⁠
  • 1 cup nut butter (I did all natural peanut butter)⁠
  • 1/2 cup maple syrup⁠
  • 1 large egg⁠
  • 2/3 cup walnuts ⁠
  • 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips ⁠

Your Steps⁠ to peanut butter and oat brownies

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line an eight inch square baking pan with foil and then coat with cooking spray. ⁠

In a small bowl, combine flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder. ⁠

In another medium bowl, combine nut butter, maple syrup, egg, and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients until just moistened. Fold in walnuts and chocolate chips. ⁠

Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 30 minutes. Allow to cool in the pan before removing the foil and cutting into bars. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! ⁠Just try not to eat the whole pan, I dare you.

  • Grab your moist ingredients.
  • Then the dry.
  • Mix them up!
  • Spread them out!
  • Ummm…yum!

Tools of the Trade

I love my large food processor. I do so much with it, including making my own oat flour!

A good Pyrex baking dish is a must!

Peanut Butter and Oat Brownies

These peanut butter and oat brownies are a quick and clean eating brownie that are full of texture and flavor! Give them a try!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 16

Ingredients
  

  • 1/3 cup oat flour
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa powder⁠
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt⁠
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder⁠
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla⁠
  • 1 cup nut butter
  • 1/2 cup maple syrup⁠
  • 1 large egg⁠
  • 2/3 cup walnuts ⁠
  • 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips ⁠

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line a 8 in square baking pan with foil and then coat with cooking spray. ⁠
  • In a small bowl, combine flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder. ⁠
  • In another medium bowl, combine nut butter, maple syrup, egg, and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients until just moistened. Fold in walnuts and chocolate chips. ⁠
  • Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 30 minutes. Allow to cool in the pan before removing the foil and cutting into bars.

Notes

I grind old fashioned oats myself in a food processor. You can also purchase your own.
Keyword brownies, chocolate and peanut butter, Gluten Free, oats, peanut butter brownies
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Homemade Applesauce: Slow Cooker Style

Last Updated on September 9, 2022 by Jess

Growing up, I don’t remember either of my parents making homemade applesauce. That isn’t to say they didn’t do it, but I certainly have no memory of it. It wasn’t until I was almost entirely through college that I even realized canning and preserving food was something commonplace. I didn’t start my own journey with homegrown and preserved food until late into my twenties, after my son was born. 

After we purchased our home in 2009, we immediately set to work to plant a garden and get trees started for our own mini orchard. At that point, I still had no idea where my future in home preservation was headed. My in-laws are avid canners and freezers of food they produce in their garden. I don’t know if it was a push by my husband or a curiosity of mine, but I became interested. Slowly, I started by canning pickles and jams. Then tomato sauce. Then my in-laws brought me bushels of apples from their own orchard (ours are JUST starting to produce enough to preserve them. For now, we eat ours and preserve gifted apples). I became interested in making homemade applesauce. Then apple jelly and apple pie filling. 

Now, I’ve learned that preserving homemade applesauce doesn’t have to look like canning it (although I like to do a little of both). It can look like freezing it, which is a little less daunting for many. And while I love a low simmer on the stove, a slow cooker does the trick and takes the pressure off of worrying if it’s going to burn. Big win, right? 

So if you’re ready, I am excited to share my homemade applesauce recipe for freezing. 

Your Ingredients for HOmemade AppleSauce

  • 8-9 pounds of apples (between 27-36 apples)
  • 2-3 cinnamon sticks (optional) 
  • 1 cup of water 

Note: I never add sugar. Apples are sweet enough on their own that I don’t think you need it. If you want to add sugar, I recommend starting low, say, ½ cup. You can add it later, but you can’t unsweeten applesauce after you add it. 

Directions for Slow cooker Applesauce

Gather a bowl and a 7-8 quart slow cooker. Peel, core, and slice your apples. Place the scraps in the bowl for Apple Scrap Jelly (yes, you didn’t know you were also making jelly, but here you are, getting ready to!). Set aside (or compost them if you must.) 

Place the sliced apples in the slow cooker. Add cinnamon sticks and water. Set on high for 3-4 hours. Every 30 minutes or so, stir and mash a bit with a potato masher or pastry cutter to break down the apples. Cook until apples are soft. 

Remove the cinnamon sticks. Now, you have a decision to make: chunky or smooth? 

Chunky Applesauce? Continue to mash with the potato masher until you like the texture. 

Smooth Applesauce? Hit it with an immersion blender until you get the texture you love. 

Allow to cool for approximately an hour. Ladle cooled applesauce into freezer safe containers (I love these container from Arrow). Label and store in the freezer. My mom likes to ladle her applesauce into freezer bags. She likes that they lay flat in the freezer. You do you. (Yes, I know I started by saying my mom didn’t preserve food. She does now. Maybe I inspired her?) 

This recipe should result in about 6 pints of applesauce. 

Fresh, beautiful apples
Cooked down and mashed.
Blended with that immersion blender!
Freezer bags work great!
But so do containers…
Or sometimes you just have to eat it right away!

Tools of the Trade

In my post, I talk about my immersion blender (a favorite tool of mine!), my Arrow freezer containers (a go to for apples, portioned leftovers, apple pie filling, and so much more!), and I love my Crock pot. I mean, you can’t go wrong!

Slow Cooker Applesauce

Apple season equals time for homemade applesauce! Get out the slow cooker and some freezer safe containers and get set to create!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Preserving
Servings 6 pints

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 8-9 pounds of apples between 27-36 apples
  • 2-3 cinnamon sticks optional
  • 1 cup of water

Instructions
 

  • Peel, core, and slice your apples. Place in the slow cooker.
  • Add cinnamon sticks and water. Set on high for 3-4 hours.
  • Every 30 minutes or so, stir and mash a bit with a potato masher or pastry cutter to break down the apples. Cook until apples are soft.
  • Remove the cinnamon sticks.
  • If you prefer chunky applesauce, continue to mash with the potato masher until preferred texture. If you prefer smooth applesauce, blend with an immersion blender.
  • Allow to cool for approximately an hour. Ladle cooled applesauce into freezer safe containers. Label and freeze.

Notes

I never add sugar. Apples are sweet enough on their own that I don’t think you need it. If you want to add sugar, I recommend starting low, say, ½ cup. You can add it later, but you can’t unsweeten applesauce after you add it.
Keyword apple and cinnamon, apples, applesauce, freezer meals, preserving
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Spiced Pumpkin Muffins

Gosh, I have to tell you, fall is my favorite season. I love the change in colors. Jeans and sweatshirt weather while the sun is still shining. Brisk mornings and sort of warm afternoons. All wonderful, right? And the flavors! It’s soup season and apples are ripening. So many wonderful things, including these spiced pumpkin muffins. 

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I dig making a recipe a touch healthier by substituting maple syrup for regular sugar. I love homegrown ingredients, so of course this was made from pumpkin I roasted (Have you never? You must try! Get the recipe for Roasted Pumpkin here!). And the warming spices. So good in the fall, right? And I don’t know about you, but there’s something so autumn about baking fresh goodies for your friends and family on the weekends.

Okay, enough chatter, let’s get baking some delicious spiced pumpkin muffins! 

Your Ingredients

  • 1 cup pumpkin puree, canned or home roasted
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons oil 
  • ⅓ cup maple syrup 
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla 
  • 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
  • ¾ cup oats 
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg 
  • ¼ teaspoon ginger
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves 
  • ½ cup chocolate chips or nuts (optional) 

Your Directions to Spiced Pumpkin Muffins

In a large bowl, combine pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, and maple syrup. Whisk until well combined. Add flour, oats, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. Mix until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips or nuts if adding. 

Spoon into greased muffin tins, approximately ⅓ cup in each, about ¾ of the way full. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes, until muffins spring back when touched. Allow to cool five minutes in the pan. Then remove and place on a cooling rack to finish.

  • Liquid ingredients combine with
  • dry ingredients to create
  • delicious muffins!
  • Let’s eat!

Spiced Pumpkin Muffins

Simple and zero refined sugar, these spiced pumpkin muffins are a great recipe for a fall baking weekend!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 12 muffins

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup pumpkin puree canned or home roasted
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • ⅓ cup maple syrup
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
  • ¾ cup oats
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon ginger
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ cup chocolate chips or nuts optional

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line or spray muffin tin with non stick cooking spray.
  • In a large bowl, combine pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, and maple syrup. Whisk until well combined.
  • Add flour, oats, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. Mix until just combined.
  • Fold in chocolate chips or nuts if desired.
  • Spoon into muffin tins, approximately ⅓ cup in each, about ¾ of the way full.
  • Bake at for 15-20 minutes, until muffins spring back when touched.
Keyword Breakfast, muffins, pumpkin, quick breads
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Silver Dollar Yeast Rolls

Remember when a pandemic hit the world, and lots of families picked one family member to be the official grocery shopper to limit exposure? I do. And that shopper at our house happened to be my husband. As a high school teacher, I was teaching from home and watching my kiddos at the same time. I was also very focused on still creating great food. But when the Mr. was at work, I had to work with the ingredients we had on hand. I had a meal in mind that needed rolls and alas, we didn’t have any. Solution? Bake your own from scratch Silver Dollar Yeast Rolls. 

Now, when we have guests, my husband specifically requests these rolls because they really are that good. Not only have I used them for sloppy joes, but pulled venison, and I have even formed them into brat buns. 

Oh hey, and if you’re interested in an awesome Sloppy Joe recipe, check it out by clicking here! I originally made these rolls for my Sloppy Joes, but thought they deserved their own recipe!

Your ingredients Silver Dollar Yeast Rolls

  • 1 tablespoon instant yeast
  • 1 cup hot water (110-115 degrees Fahrenheit)
  • 3 tablespoons sugar 
  • 1 large egg, beaten
  • 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2-3 tablespoons butter, divided (1 tablespoon softened and remaining melted to brush on top of the rolls prior to baking)

Your Steps

In a stand mixer bowl, add yeast, sugar, and hot water. Allow to proof for five minutes. Stir in egg, flour, salt, and one tablespoon softened butter. From here, allow stand mixer to mix the ingredients on a low speed for 4 minutes, until a soft dough is formed. Cover the bowl and allow to rest and rise for an hour and a half.

After the dough has risen, turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Cut dough into 9-16 equal pieces, depending on your family likes their rolls. We dig smaller rolls, we we went for 16. Place on a jelly roll pan lined in parchment paper or silicone cookie sheet liners. Cover and allow them to rest an additional hour, until they double in size.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Uncover rolls and brush with melted butter (sprinkle with sesame seeds? I mean, that would be fun!). Bake for 15-18 minutes. Then take in just how good your house smells and revel in the fact that you just made homemade rolls that are SO MUCH BETTER than store bought, I promise!

  • Yeast, sugar and water. So fun!
  • Science is cool. Check the yeast growth.
  • Add the flour!
  • Mix it up and let it rest.
  • Cut into 9-16 rolls.
  • Rise once more and brush with butter.
  • DELISH!

Silver Dollar Yeast Rolls

No rolls? No problem. Mix up a batch of homemade silver dollar yeast rolls for your meal today. I'll bet you'll be amazed at how easy and delicious!
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Rest Time 1 hour
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Bread
Servings 12 rolls

Equipment

  • Mixer

Ingredients
  

  • 1 tablespoon instant yeast
  • 1 cup hot water 110-115 degrees Fahrenheit
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 large egg beaten
  • 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2-3 tablespoons butter divided (1 tablespoon softened and remaining melted to brush on top of the rolls prior to baking)

Instructions
 

  • In a stand mixer bowl, add yeast, sugar, and hot water. Allow to proof for five minutes.
  • Stir in egg, flour, salt, and one tablespoon softened butter. From here, allow stand mixer to mix the ingredients on a low speed for 4 minutes, until a soft dough is formed.
  • Cover the bowl and allow to rest and rise for an hour and a half.
  • After the dough has risen, turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface.
  • Cut dough into 9-16 equal pieces, depending on your family likes their rolls.
  • Place on a jelly roll pan lined in parchment paper or silicone cookie sheet liners.
  • Cover and allow them to rest an additional hour, until they double in size.
  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Uncover rolls and brush with melted butter. Bake for 15-18 minutes, until golden brown.
Keyword Bread, Rolls, Yeast
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