Texas Roadhouse Rolls
Experience the best buttery Texas roadhouse rolls with a delicious homemade cinnamon honey butter slathered on top. These freshly baked, soft, buttery golden roadhouse rolls straight out of the oven are the perfect accompaniment for your dinner table.
Servings: 12
Calories: 334kcal
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup Milk
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 4 tablespoons melted Butter separated
- 1 large Egg at room temperature
- ¼ cup Honey
- 4 cups All-purpose Flour or Bread Flour
- 2 ¼ teaspoon Active Dry Yeast or 1 packet
For the Cinnamon Honey Butter
- 1 stick Butter salted softened
- ¼ cup Powdered sugar
- ¼ cup Honey
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
Instructions
Preparations
- Get your kitchen ready before you start making the roll dough mixture.
- Make a clear and clean bench to knead the dough to make these rolls.
- Make sure to take the butter and egg out of the refrigerator an hour or so beforehand to come to room temperature.
- This is also a good time to grease up the baking sheet and make the honey butter.
Cooking instructions
- Bring the milk to a near boil and remove it from the heat when you see it begin to steam. Let it reduce to lukewarm, between 80-90 degrees Fahrenheit (26-33 degrees Celsius).
- Prepare the yeast mixture with the warm milk, yeast, and honey in a small bowl until well combined. Let it sit for 5 minutes. This gets the yeast started. You'll know it's working when the mixture starts to appear foamy.
- In a large bowl, mix 3 tablespoons of the melted butter, the warm milk mixture, the room temperature egg, and 2 cups of flour. Mix slowly until smooth (use a stand mixer with a dough hook if you have one. Otherwise, do it by hand).
- Gradually add the remaining 2 cups of flour and mix until a dough has formed.
- Add the salt to mix it in, then knead the dough for roughly 8 minutes.
- Then place the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a few more minutes.
- Spray a large bowl with cooking spray and drop the dough inside. Cover the greased bowl (plastic wrap or a damp cloth works) and let it rise for an hour in a warm place.
- Punch down the soft dough and roll it out on a flat, lightly floured surface until it’s about ½ inch thick. Fold it in half and gently seal.
- To shape Texas Roadhouse rolls, cut the rolled dough into 24 squares of even size. Place the rolls onto 2 oven trays with lightly greased baking sheets. Cover them and let them rise for 30-40 minutes until they have doubled in size.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius) and bake for 12-15 minutes until the top is a light golden brown.
- Melt the remaining tablespoon of butter and brush the top of all the warm rolls immediately.
- Serve finished rolls with honey cinnamon butter. Cut in the middle and spread like a sandwich.
Recipe Notes
Baking is chemistry
It's important to measure out all your ingredients, as too much or too little of each ingredient can affect the final outcome of the bread rolls.
Temperatures
Temperatures have to be followed carefully. Make sure that the milk isn't overheated, and it cools down to around a lukewarm temperature. Otherwise, if it is too hot, you will kill the yeast!
Faster rising
To create the perfect warm space to help your dough rise quicker, turn your oven to its lowest heat setting for a few minutes, then turn it off and put the dough mixture in.