A dough or pastry that is rolled into shape, then baked or fried. For asking questions related to cinnamon rolls, spring rolls, bread rolls and other kinds of rolled dough.
Questions tagged [rolls]
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Recently purchased yeast gave dinner rolls weird smell and taste
I purchased a new package of yeast. It's a about a 2x2x3 inch vacuum packed brick of granulated yeast for baking. I've purchased and used it twice before without a problem. It's always had normal taste and smell in the finished bread or rolls. This…
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how to bake with nutella without burning it?
I saw another user ask this but it was 5 years ago and I cannot figure out how to DM. Dear user Layna, if you see this, I require your expertise!
I want to make rolls with Nutella filling. like cinnamon rolls but with a Nutella filling instead. The…
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How to get brown tops to my garlic knots
I've found some good recipes for garlic knots, but can't get them to have that restaurant style brown tops to them. The best I can do is get them slightly brown at the top if I cook them longer than expected, on the verge of burning the bottoms. I…
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Baking German white bread rolls
While searching online for a recipe, I found this YouTube video: How to bake 4k german white bread and followed the recipe (in the description):
German White bread (Berliner schrippe)
Ingredients for 6-9 bread rolls:
pre-ferment / vorteig:
200 gr…
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How to make crescent rolls soft and fluffy?
I have tried a couple of times to make my crescent rolls light, soft, and fluffy, but I have not managed to achieve that yet. They turn out a bit too heavy. My guess is that the dough is too sticky, so when I knead it I add more flour than is…
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How can I approximate a deli kaiser roll?
I want to approximate kaiser rolls, as you would buy in a deli or bodega. I tried this recipe, and the results were tasty, but not really a kaiser roll. Specifically, they were:
Too dense
Not crusty enough
How can I get closer to the…
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Dividing dough into rolls
I'm looking for a good way to get uniform dinner rolls cut from a batch of dough (6 lbs dough and 4 oz per roll). I use an old-fashioned scale and I have found that unless I work very slowly, it does not measure 4 oz accurately. The pieces are…
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How to prevent butter-based filling to spread out from rolled/knotted pastries?
When making Swedish cinnamon rolls (kanelbullar), or any similar rolled/knotted pastries, I have an issue with the filling oozing out of the pastry when baking it. Recipes are calling for a filling usually made with butter, sugar and spices. (The…
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Cake yeast rolls recipe missing part of flour measurement
My mother has a cake yeast rolls recipe, but she can't remember it. She's 101 so don't expect it. I have part of the recipe, and it is:
2 yeast cake in 1/4 cups of warm water
1 cup scalded milk
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup shortening
1 1/2 salt
3 eggs
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Making 1% milk into whole milk
I have a yeast Roll recipe that calls for 1 cup of whole milk. I only have 1% milk. What can I do to make the 1% equivalent to whole milk.
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Should I add baking soda if the yeast in bread dough is not working?
So I’m trying to make Hawaii bread rolls, I already know my yeast is probably dead and so far the dough hasn’t risen the question is : is it a bad idea to add baking soda?
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How to make my cinnamon rolls less bready?
I make it like this 3/4 cup milk, 1/4 margarine, 3/4 flour, 25 ounce yeast, 1/4 white sugar, 1/4 water, one egg.
I leave it for thirty minutes, and it hardly rises. When cooked, the taste and texture are a bit too bready. How do I make it less…
