Spanish Rolls are one of my favorite things to eat!
They are a soft, sweet bread dough rolled flat and filled with sweetened butter, then rolled jelly-roll style. The rolled dough is brushed with melted butter then topped with a sprinkling of a sugar-breadcrumb mixture and baked to golden brown perfection.
Eat them as a snack, dessert, or have a roll or two or three 😉 for breakfast with
a steaming cup of your favorite coffee.
It’s not that difficult to make. Follow my complete recipe below and mix up a batch of sweet bread dough. Flatten pieces of dough and brush with a butter-sugar mixture. Roll up the dough, jelly-roll style and let the dough rise.
Spread more butter on top of the rolls and top with a sugar-breadcrumb topping before baking. Use turbinado sugar, also called sugar in the raw, to top the rolls.
The sugar-breadcrumb mixture bakes up into a sweet and crunchy topping that compliments the soft and incredibly fluffy, buttery rolls.
Don’t you wish you could just reach into your computer and pull one of these
scrumptious rolls right off that pan?
Give my recipe a try. I know you’ll like it. 🙂
- 1¼ cup milk
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 packets active dry yeast
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1½ teaspoons salt
- 1 large egg
- 2 large egg yolks
- 4½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 sticks softened butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- ¼ cup turbinado sugar (also called sugar in the raw)
- Place the milk into a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minute and 15 seconds. Pour the hot milk into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the sugar to the milk, mixing until the sugar is dissolved, about one minute.
- Add the yeast to the milk-sugar mixture then mix until dissolved. Let the yeast stand for about 10 minutes to proof (the mixture should become very foamy).
- Let the melted butter cool down a bit then mix it with the salt, egg and egg yolks. Pour the butter mixture into the mixing bowl with the yeast mixture.
- Mix in the flour, a half cup at a time until you've used four cups of flour.
- Change the paddle to the dough hook then add the last half cup of flour. Knead with the dough hook for about 5 minutes, or until the dough pulls away from the side of the bowl.
- Spray the ball of dough with butter cooking spray then cover the mixing bowl with plastic wrap. Allow the dough to rise in a warm place until doubled (about 45 minutes to an hour).
- After the dough has doubled in volume, punch it down then place it onto a clean countertop. Knead gently for 1 minute. Divide the dough into 24 pieces. Roll out each piece of dough into ovals.
- Prepare the filling by mixing the softened butter and sugar together until creamy.
- Evenly spread about a tablespoon of the butter and sugar mixture over each piece of flattened dough (you will have some of the mixture leftover; save this for use later).
- Roll the dough, jellyroll-style. Place onto a baking sheet about one inch apart. Cover loosely with plastic wrap; place the pan in a warm place to rise for about 20 minutes.
- While the rolls are rising, mix the breadcrumbs and turbinado sugar together.
- After the rolls have risen, gently spread some of the remaining butter-sugar mixture on top of the rolls. Sprinkle the breadcrumb mixture on top of the buttered rolls.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 18 minutes or until golden brown.
