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These Homemade Crescent Rolls and bigger and better than store bought! Slightly sweet, buttery and easy to make! Great for breakfast, brunch or dinner!

Ingredients Needed For Homemade Crescent Rolls

water
dry active yeast
salted butter
large eggs
granulated sugar
all-purpose flour
sea salt

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How To Make Homemade Crescent Rolls

Baking bread doesn’t have to be hard. Even if you don’t have a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment, you can knead by hand and achieve the same results.

So, let’s get started with the starter! Mix the dry yeast with warm water and a pinch of sugar. I let the faucet run for a minute to get warm water, no need to boil water. Or heat a little in the microwave. Set aside and let the yeast react for about 5 minutes.

In another bowl, whisk together three tablespoons of melted better, sugar and eggs. Let the butter cool a little if it gets too hot when you melt it, you don’t want your eggs to cook when you mix them in!

In a large mixing bowl or the bowl with your stand mixer, add the flour and the salt. Pour in the yeast mixture and the egg mixture. Mix by hand until dough comes together or use the paddle attachment for 30 – 60 seconds.

Then by hand knead for 10 minutes or switch to the dough hook for 5 minutes. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let rise for one hour.

After one hour, turn the dough out on a lightly floured surface. Knead into a ball and cut the dough in half.

Roll out each half and then using a butter knife, spread some of the softened butter on top of the dough. Then cut into triangles.

Roll from wide side and place on a parchment lined baking sheet. I used two baking sheets, you want to leave enough room between the rolls, they will puff up more when they bake. Cover the rolls on the baking sheet with clean dish towel and let rise for 20 minutes. Start preheating the oven to 350 degrees.

After 20 minutes, brush the tops of the rolls with butter. I melted the rest of the softened butter and used a pastry brush.

Bake the rolls for 12 – 14 minutes. Hope you enjoy!!

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Homemade Crescent Rolls

Author: The Sweet Cucina
Total Time: 1 hour 42 minutes
Yield: 18 Servings 1x

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Ingredients

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1 1/4 cups water, warm
4 tsp dry active yeast
3 tbsp salted butter, melted
2 large eggs
1/3 cup granulated sugar
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp sea salt
4 tbsp salted butter, softened

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Instructions

In a small bowl, mix warm water, dry active yeast and a pinch of sugar. Set aside.
In another small bowl, mix melted butter, eggs and sugar.
In a large mixing bowl, add flour and salt.
Add the yeast mixture and egg mixture to the flour.
Mix by hand or use the paddle attachment, until dough comes together.
Then knead by hand for 10 minutes or switch to dough hook and knead for 5 minutes.
Cover dough with plastic wrap in mixing bowl. Let rise for one hour. (This is a good time to take rest of the butter out of the refrigerator).
After one hour, turn dough out on to lightly floured surface and knead into a ball. Cut dough in half.
Roll out each half, spread softened butter on top of dough using a butter knife.
Cut the dough into triangles and roll up starting with the wide edge.
Arrange rolls on parchment lined baking sheet(s). (I used 2 baking sheets).
Cover rolls with a clean kitchen towel and let rise for 20 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt remaining softened butter, after 20 minutes, uncover rolls and brush the tops with butter.
Bake for 12 – 14 minutes.
Enjoy!