Hot Rolls

I could have sworn this recipe was already on here, but I guess it's not! So, it's about stinking time I shared my favorite roll recipe. Years ago, my step-mom gave me a cookbook full of recipes from her coworkers, and this recipe for "hot rolls" was in there. We LOVE it!!! It makes huge, fluffy rolls. I pull it out when asked to bring rolls for Thanksgiving or Christmas. 

Marsha's Hot Rolls

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 2 cups water, hottest you get from tap
• 6 Tbsp. sugar
• 3 Tbsp. oil
• 1 Tbsp. yeast
• 5 cups flour
• 2 tsp. salt

Directions:

1. Mix eggs, water, sugar and oil together.   
2. Sprinkle yeast on top of mixture, stir slightly, let sit for 10-15 minutes or until yeast is foamy.  
3. Sprinkle enough flour on top of yeast to protect it from salt.  
4. Sprinkle salt on top of the flour, then sprinkle more flour on top of the salt.  
5. Mix in then add the rest of the flour until dough is not sticky.  
6. Let raise for one hour.  
7. Roll out on floured surface and cut in to rolls.  Place rolls in two greased pans and let raise.  
8. Cook for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.

Marsha's Notes:

These rolls are HUGE if you use one 9x13 pan, so I use one 9x13 and then another smaller pan to make my rolls. They still come out softball-sized, so you could totally do rolls even half this size and make two 9x13 pans, I would imagine.

The dough comes together pretty easily if you use the dough hook on your stand mixer.

Here is is out of the bowl after its first rise.

I added about a 1/2 cup of flour to help keep the dough from sticking to my hands while I form the rolls.

Each ball of dough is about 100 grams.

Depending on how much extra flour you add to the dough and how heavy you make your balls will determine how many rolls you get. Getting 15-20 is pretty typical. This is what the balls look like before you do the second rise and then bake.