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Sweet Dinner Rolls

What you need: 

2 tablespoons yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1/2 cup margarine (Earth Balance is the best for this)
1 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
3 1/2 teaspoons Ener-g egg replacer
6 tablespoons warm water
4 1/2 cups flour

What you do: 

1. Mix yeast and 1/4 cup warm water in a small bowl, set aside. In a saucepan, melt margarine, water, sugar, and salt. Let cool.
2. In a large bowl, mix egg replacer and warm water with a whisk until blended. Add the yeast mixture and the margarine mixture, stir to combine.
3. Add the flour, 1 cup at a time, mixing as you go. It will create a sticky dough. Let rise, covered, until doubled in size. Punch it down, cover with a damp cloth or saran wrap, and place in refrigerator overnight or for at least 3 hours.
4. Roll out flat and cut into circles for traditional rolls or roll into balls and place 3 balls into muffin tins to create clover rolls.
5. Shape and let rise until doubled in size. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake for 12-17 minutes (check frequently after 12 minutes), until lightly browned on top.

Preparation Time: 
18 hours
Cooking Time: 
Servings: 
24
Recipe Category: 

SO HOW'D IT GO?

I'm going to try this recipe, again.  It's great! I'm still going to use the bread machine and probably the same amounts of the other ingredients.  If I change something, I'll let you all know.  The main change is the use of oil instead of Earth Balance.  Earth Balance is a little pricey.  I'm going to see if I can get similar results as before.  I've found some information online about substituting oil and butter; so, hopefully I'll measure that ingredient correctly.

Okay, I made the dough in my bread machine as I did the last time.  Instead of water I used plain soymilk.  I did use 6 tablespoons of oil instead of the Earth Balance.  I used a tablespoon of instant yeast (I think I need just a little bit more - maybe a teaspoon or so because it took a little while longer for my dough to rise the first time - the same thing happened with my other recipe modification, too).  I realize that by using the dough cycle on my bread machine, the machine is kneading the dough and so this is definitely not a no knead adaptation.  I also didn't refrigerate the dough, but used it right away and shaped the rolls. I did melt some Smart Balance Light and put some on the rolls while they were doing their second rise, too. I used a mix of all purpose and bread flour, too. The rolls were so fluffy and delicious. 

In summary:

Substitutions:
6 tablespoons of (I used canola) oil (instead of the Earth Balance)
1 cup of plain soymilk (instead of the water)
1 tablespoon of instant yeast (instead of 2 tablespoons; however, I may have a little bit more because it did take my dough a bit longer to rise)

Order of ingredients in my breadmachine:
1. wet ingredients go first (water/soymilk, "eggs," sugar, salt, oil/melted margarine)
2. flour
3. make a well in the flour to add the yeast

I'm going to add a second picture to the photo album for this recipe. 

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I'm going to try this recipe, again.  It's great! I'm still going to use the bread machine and probably the same amounts of the other ingredients.  If I change something, I'll let you all know.  The main change is the use of oil instead of Earth Balance.  Earth Balance is a little pricey.  I'm going to see if I can get similar results as before.  I've found some information online about substituting oil and butter; so, hopefully I'll measure that ingredient correctly.

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These were really good!!! I changed the recipe so that I could make the dough in my bread machine.  Also, I didn't refrigerate the dough, but used it right away after it was done rising in the bread machine.  I used only a tablespoon of instant yeast (I'm almost positive, but just use any yeast that's appropriate for bread machines.  The reason that I'm not sure is because I threw away the bulk packaging from BJ's; so, I'm not 100% sure that it wasn't another variety of yeast that's appropriate for bread machines.).  Judging by other bread machine recipes that I've seen, I don't think that you need as much yeast for bread machine recipes.  I didn't mix the yeast with water, but added it as the final ingredient on top of the flour.  So, I dropped the water that would have been mixed with the yeast.  I also added a little bit more flour because I was concerned that it would be too sticky.

Addition:  a little bit more flour
Subtraction: 1/4 cup of water that would have been mixed with the yeast & 1 tablespoon of the yeast

Order of ingredients:
1. Liquids first (that's the margarine, sugar, salt, water, and "eggs")
2. Flour
3. Make a well in the flour to add the yeast

Check out my pics in the gallery.

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I had a very hard time accepting that kneading was not part of the instructions and resisted the urge to add the extra elbow grease. And guess what - they were just fine! Definitely worth making.

Had to laugh, coz I couldn't resist the urge and kneaded the flour into the dough the last cup and a half. Still turned out fantastic! Wonderful recipe. Well worth the time and effort. :-)

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Yum. I was having a craving for sweet yeast rolls yesterday and I found these. I have to add here that I am thankful for the simple, descriptive title the poster used which made it easy to choose this recipe. Anyway, these were nice and sweet and incredibly easy. I had a very hard time accepting that kneading was not part of the instructions and resisted the urge to add the extra elbow grease. And guess what - they were just fine! Definitely worth making.

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These rolls were so good!!!! They had a perfect amount of sweetness to them and were as fluffy as a cloud! They were the best rolls I have ever made vegan or not! I used a different powdered egg replacer from this website and it worked outt beautifully! Thank you so much for the recipe! Defineitely making these again!

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These were excellent for Christmas dinner--everybody at the table loved them and there were none left over.  I had to add about 1/4 cup more flour to make a manageable (but still sticky) dough.  I forgot to take a picture unfortunately, turned out really cute as clover rolls.  Will make again for special occasions.

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Ooops, I just realized there is a typo in my recipe. Ignore the part where it says "melt butter with margarine." There should be no butter in this recipe. This is a roll recipe that I worked hard to veganize. The original recipe used butter, but this one tastes great with earth balance margarine instead.

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