These soft and fluffy Crescent Dinner Rolls are made from an easy-to-work with yeast dough.
I’ve actually already had Thanksgiving in my house… sort of. I spent a couple of days last weekend preparing all kinds of Thanksgiving side dishes, threw a couple of turkey breasts in the crockpot, and then got to work making these homemade Crescent Dinner Rolls. I’ve saved this recipe from Taste of Home for a long while. It was high time I finally made them!
How to make Crescent Dinner Rolls:
The dough is pretty simple to work with. You can use a stand mixer and have it do the mixing and kneading for you, or you can certainly do it the old-fashioned way- stirring with a strong wooden spoon and putting all of your strength and oomph into kneading the dough by hand. I let the dough sit by my fireplace to rise.
After rising, the dough gets a little punch-down action.
Then it’s divided into three equal pieces.
Each piece is rolled into a circle. You will be surprised how easy this dough is to roll out. Not even a hint of being sticky or anything! Cut into wedges, brush with butter, and roll up!
Set them seam-side down on a baking sheet. BAKE!
They come out nice and tender and pull-apart delicious. If you want to make them ahead of your busy dinner serving time, just wrap them in foil and heat them a little bit in the oven to warm them up.
I ended up preparing so much food last weekend that we ended up inviting our neighbor and his two teenage daughters over for dinner. We had a festive feast, and they were eager taste testers for all of my food. I LOVE THAT!
So… will you be making homemade rolls for Thanksgiving? You might also be interested in my recipes for Soft Yeast Rolls and Easy Dinner Rolls.
Crescent Dinner Rolls
Ingredients
- One .25-ounce packet active dry yeast
- ¼ cup warm water (110 to 115 degrees F)
- ½ cup + 1 tablespoon granulated white sugar, divided
- ¾ cup warm milk (110 to 115 degrees F)
- 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 5 to 5½ cups all purpose flour
- melted butter
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water. Add 1 tablespoon sugar; let stand for 5 minutes. Add the milk, eggs butter, salt and remaining sugar. Stir in enough flour to form a stiff dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6 to 8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1½ hours.
- Punch the dough down. Divide the dough into thirds. Roll each into a 12-inch circle; cut each circle into eight wedges. Brush with melted butter; roll up wedges from the wide end and place, pointed end down, 2 inches apart on greased baking sheets. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes.
- Bake at 375°F. for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks.
Notes
- *If you're searching for a warm place to let your dough rise, turn on your oven to 400 degrees for 1 minute and turn the light on. Turn it off after one minute, keep the light on, and place your bowl of dough in the slightly warmed oven. The light will help keep it warm enough to rise.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
So easy and so delicious. Thank you for the recipe!
Would you be able to freeze the extra dough (if there wasn’t any people over for dinner) for another day?
I’m not sure as I have not tried it! But they do defrost and warm-up again nicely if you’d like to make them all and freeze the leftovers.
This dough is amazing! So easy to work with and my family of 6 ate half the rolls for dinner tonight. Thanks for the recipe and pictures
Yay!
I make bread at least weekly, sometimes more often, but I’ve never made dinner rolls of any kind. That changes this week. I’ll be making these tomorrow.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are really the only times I definitely make fresh bread. These look easier than I thought they’d be. Can’t wait to try them.
Those rolls are beauties!! just like the ones from a can but so much better!
Homemade bread is the best! These crescent dinner rolls look perfect!
I have never made crescents from scratch. I love making fresh bread though, so I am going to have to pin these for later! Thanks