Baking Dinner Rolls

Since it is the weekend Chelsea and I got to sleep in a little bit this morning. After we ate breakfast I asked her what she wanted to do today. She told me that she has been really wanting to do some baking. She has especially been wanting to eat some of the dinner rolls like our grandma used to make for us when we used to go to her house.

mom said the recipe should be in here

I asked mom and she said to look in the recipe file box because she was sure the recipe for those rolls was in there. She said she would be available if we needed help but she was sure between the two of us we could do all the steps by ourselves.

There it is!

We found the recipe for the rolls pretty quickly (we found a lot of other recipes we want to make too) and after a quick check of the kitchen we found we had everything we needed to make them on hand.

We had better check to see if we have everything we need

Chelsea could you get the things we need from the refrigerator

all set to make our rolls

We got the dough mixed and kneaded. Kneading bread dough is hard work but kind of fun at the same time.

We rolled the dough into little balls like the recipe said to do and put them in the pan to rise. It sure seemed to take a long time before they were ready.

where should we put them to rise?

Allison what temperature did you say to set the oven?

After they had a chance to rise we carefully put the pan in the oven. Then the real waiting began. Bread smells sooooo good when it is baking.

When the timer went off we opened the oven door and saw that our rolls looked perfect!

Oh there's the other oven mitt!

At first Chelsea could only find one oven mitt but we found the other one quickly, we didn't want our rolls to burn after all our hard work. I remembered to grab the cooling rack to protect the counter top from the hot pan too.

Then we had to wait until the rolls cooled a few minutes before we could taste them.

are they cool enough to taste yet

oh those are so good!!

They are just as good now as when we remembered from grandma's house!

I am so glad Chelsea wanted to bake today. I think we need to do this more often.

I suppose I should go down to the basement and tell Michael and Jeremy that the rolls are ready. Although I think Chelsea and I need to eat a few more first.