Homemade Dinner Rolls in the Kitchen Aid

I'm sharing these two dinner roll recipes on my blog because they have changed my life.  You have no idea how far I've come with making dinner rolls.  I had no clue about yeast, and letting dough rise, and kneading the dough, etc.  I wanted so badly to make yummy bread but it was always a disaster.  Christian used to call my dinner rolls baseballs.  They were so hard and heavy, you could throw them across the room and break a window.

Another thing that has saved my life is my kitchen-aid!  I use it almost daily.  I really don't know what I would do without it.  In fact, it's ready to get serviced because a screw is loose inside, and I think I'm going to take it in right before my trip so that they can fix it while I'm gone and I won't miss it!  

The thing that I love about these recipes is that they only take 1 hour to make.  That's usually when I start thinking about what to do for dinner, an hour before.  The other thing is that the kitchen aid does most of the work.  Anyways, without further ado, my 2 most favorite go-to kitchen aid dinner roll recipes;    

Alyse's Dinner Rolls

I learned about this one from my friend Alyse.  She said that this is a recipe from when she was a little girl.  Before the kitchen aid, her mom and all of her sisters would knead the dough for 10 - 20 minutes by hand. 

2 cups Water

2 Tbs. Yeast

1/2 cup Sugar

Place in kitchen aid bowl and let rise for 10 minutes.  Then add and mix the rest of the ingredients below;

2 tsp. Salt

4 3/4 cups Flour

1 Egg

1/4 cup Oil

Let kitchen aid knead on med/high for 10 minutes.  Let rise in bowl for 10 minutes.  Roll them into balls.  I use a combination of flour and oil for my hands and counter space.  Let rolls rise for 10 minutes.  Bake for 10-15 minutes at 375 degrees.  

Pinterest Rolls

This one I learned about from pinterest.  It makes a smaller batch, about 10 rolls.  It's SO easy and so tasty. 

In a kitchen aid mixer bowl, mix the following and let stand for 15 minutes; 

1 cup Warm Water

1/4 cup Sugar

1/3 cup Oil

2 Tbs. Yeast

Add:

1 tsp. salt

1 egg, beaten

Gradually add 3 1/3 cups flour.  Dough will be kind of sticky.  Let stand for 10 minutes.  Spray hands with non-stick cooking spray (or flour/oil) and form into balls.  Place balls so they don't touch on a cookie sheet.  Let rise for 20 minutes.  Back at 375 for 10 minutes.

The recipes are very similar.  Please try these.  I hope they will change your life like they have changed mine!