Honey Rolls

Will someone please tell me why I need to care about the royal wedding? I really don’t understand why I need to have every other news article and media outlet shoving details of their wedding [vegan! the cake! the eco-friendly floral arrangements! the body doubles!] in my face. I don’t care. Not in the slightest. I hate that I even know these things about the wedding.

/rant

On to more important things, like the honey rolls! I finished them! I plan on making them again [after trying out pretzel rolls]. They were sweet, dense, and soft–my kind of bread. They lasted a few days sealed in a plastic bag. I imagine they’d last longer, but they won’t last that long if my stomach has anything to say about them. I didn’t butter them because that’s blasphemy in my world. I didn’t toast them. I didn’t even reheat them when I ate them in the following days. Pure, unadulterated bread. I love it.

Inspiration: The Pastry Affair

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons dry active yeast
• 1 cup barely warm water
• 3 cups all purpose flour, plus more for kneading
• 5 tablespoons honey
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted

Preparation

1. Measure your barely warm water in a measuring cup.
2. Sprinkle in the yeast and let sit for 5-10 minutes until activated.
3. In a mixing bowl, combine honey, salt, and egg.
4. Add in the yeasty water.
5. Mix in flour.
6. This dough is sticky, so make sure your hands are well floured.
7. Knead the dough for about 8 minutes. You want it to maintain some of its stickiness, so don’t add too much flour.
8. Add the dough to a lightly oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap and a towel and let rise in a warm place for 1-2 hours [until doubled in size].
9. Punch the dough down and divide it into 12 mostly equal pieces. Unless you want unequal pieces. You know you want the biggest one for yourself.
10. Place nicely rounded ball on a baking sheet [or pan] that has been lightly prepared so things don’t stick.
11. Cover with a towel and let rise another 20ish minutes.
12. Preheat oven to 400º.
13. After the final rise, brush the melted butter on the tops.
14. Bake for 10-13 minutes until the tops are nice and golden.
15. Eat them. All of them.