Potato Dinner Rolls

You will be the hit of the party if you bring these! I also brush them with butter right when they come out of the oven too!  Twice the butter, but worth every calorie!

Potato Dinner Rolls

Ingredients

• 1 package of Rapid Rise active dry yeast
• 1 ½ cups of warm to hot water
• 1 cup unseasoned luke warm mashed potatoes, no lumps
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup shortening
• 2 eggs
• 3 cups bread flour
• 3 cups all purpose flour

Directions

1.      Dissolve yeast in water and proof for 10 minutes.

2.    Stir in potatoes, sugar, shortening, eggs, salt and 3 cups of the flour. Beat until smooth. Mix in enough remaining flour to make dough easy to handle.

3.     Turn dough onto lightly floured surface. knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.

4.    Place in greased bowl; turn greased side up. Cover bowl tightly;

5.    Refrigerate at least 8 hours but no longer than 5 days.

6.    Heat oven to 400 degrees.

7.    Shape dough into balls. Make sure your hands have flour on them and also roll ball in to a tiny bit flour to make it easier. Place in lightly greased round layer pan. Brush with butter, softened. Let rise 1 hour on top of stove (preheated oven will help them rise since they are on top of the stove.)

8.    Bake until golden brown, about 15 minutes.

Makes approximately 3 dozen.

Cinnabon Clone Recipe

I have a few people asking for this recipe, so I thought I would blog it!  Here ya go!

Cinnabon Clone Cinnamon Rolls

INGREDIENTS
* 1 cup warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
* 2 eggs, room temperature
* 1/3 cup margarine, melted
* 4 1/2 cups bread flour
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 2 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast or 1 packet of yeast
* 1 cup brown sugar, packed
* 2 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
* 1/3 cup butter, softened
* 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
* 1/4 cup butter, softened
* 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1/8 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees F. After it is preheated, turn it back off. Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk in a large bowl. Mix in the sugar, margarine, salt, and eggs. Add bread flour and mix well. Knead the dough into a large ball, using your hands dusted lightly with flour or if you have a stand mixer, use your dough hook. Put in a bowl, cover with damp cloth and let rise in warm oven for about 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
2. After the dough has doubled in size turn it out onto a lightly floured surface, cover and let rest for 10 minutes. In a small bowl, combine brown sugar and cinnamon.
3. Roll dough into a 16x21 inch rectangle. Spread dough with 1/3 cup butter and sprinkle evenly with sugar/cinnamon mixture. Roll up dough and cut into 12 rolls. Place rolls in a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
4. Bake rolls in preheated oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes. While rolls are baking, beat together cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla extract and salt. Spread frosting on warm rolls before serving.