Homemade Texas Roadhouse Rolls

When you’re waiting for your steak to cook, there’s nothing nicer than sitting down to a basket of buttery Texas Roadhouse rolls, slathered up with honey butter. But since most of us don’t have the funds to go to a steakhouse anytime we’d like, it’s nice to know you can make your own pillowy soft puffy honey flavored rolls at home on the cheap with better ingredients.

These soft buttery dinner rolls are the easiest rolls to make outside of my Crockpot Rolls, requiring almost no work and no fancy shaping. If you can roll out dough, you can make these rolls!

Taste	Texture
Honey, buttery	Soft, feathery

Active time	Total time	Yield	Difficulty
10 minutes	2 hours	24 rolls	Easy

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What are Texas Roadhouse Rolls?

Texas Roadhouse rolls are puffy squarish dinner rolls served before meals at the Texas Roadhouse steakhouse restaurants. They are served with cinnamon honey butter and are known for their pillowy soft fluffy interior. The dough is an enriched dough made with eggs, butter, and honey which makes for rich tasting rolls that bake up soft.

The simple square shape no doubt was an invention of bakers needing to make many many rolls for service in very little time, but it also makes these rolls excellent for splitting into sandwich buns or soaking up steak juices.

Why You’ll Like My Texas Roadhouse Rolls Recipe

1. Less sugar: I find the original rolls far too sweet even before you add in the cinnamon honey butter. There is still a 1/4 cup of honey in my rolls; this amount strikes the right balance for me between having a sweet roll and one that tastes cloying.
2. Anyone can make these: Square shaped rolls require no dough handling skills. If you’ve been intimidated by yeast doughs before, this is a fantastic beginner recipe.
3. Big batch baking: This recipe makes 24 rolls, which is plenty for eating today and freezing the rest for later. Got a big family dinner like Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter coming up? A few minutes of work will stock up your freezer with rolls that are a million times better than store-bought anything.

How to Make Copycat Texas Roadhouse Rolls

1. Dissolve the Yeast: Measure out the yeast and 1 tablespoon of the honey into a cup. Mix in the warm water and stir to dissolve the yeast and honey.
2. Mix the Wet Ingredients: Melt 6 tablespoons of the butter and then whisk in the milk and the remaining 3 tablespoons of honey until the honey dissolves. Add in the eggs and salt just to break up the eggs.
3. Cool the Milk: Check the temperature of the milk. It should be about 100-110 degrees F (if you’re checking with an instant read thermometer

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   ), which is just barely warm to the touch. If the milk feels hotter than this, pour the milk into a pie plate

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   to cool for a couple minutes.
4. Mix the Dough By Machine: Add the milk mixture and yeast mixture into a mixing bowl, and then measure in the flour. Knead the dough on low speed (Kitchen Aid

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   2) for 7-8 minutes until the dough is tacky but holding together.
5. Mix Dough By hand: Measure the flour into a mixing bowl, making a well in the center. Pour the milk mixture and yeast mixture into the center of the dough. Stir everything together with a wooden spoon and then use a dough scraper

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   to scoop under the dough. Once the scraper is under the dough, fold the dough in over itself towards the center of the bowl. Keep going around the bowl, scraping and folding inward until the dough is smooth, holding together but still a little tacky.
6. First Rise: Cover the dough to rise for 1 hour until doubled and quite puffy.
7. Shaping the Rolls: Gently overturn the dough onto a lightly floured counter. Lightly roll the dough into a large rectangle. Cut the dough into 24 rectangles with a bench scraper

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   or pizza wheel

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   . Place the rolls onto 2 parchment

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   lined baking sheets. Cover the rolls to rest for 30 minutes. Towards the end of the resting time, preheat the oven to 375 F (190 C).
8. Bake the Rolls: Bake the rolls for 17-20 minutes until golden brown. While the rolls are baking, make the cinnamon honey butter.
9. Make the Cinnamon Honey Butter: Smash the butter together with the honey, cinnamon, and salt until smooth. You can use a fork or a hand mixer for this. Scrape the butter into a small bowl.
10. Finish the Rolls: As soon as the rolls come out of the oven, brush them with the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter for the rolls. Serve hot with the cinnamon honey butter.

How to Freeze Texas Roadhouse Rolls

Let the rolls cool completely and then pack them in one layer in a freezer bag. Remove as much air as you can before popping the bag into the freezer for up to 3 months.

How to Reheat Frozen Rolls

1. For crusty rolls:
   Preheat the oven to 325 F (163 C). Place frozen rolls on a sheet tray and bake for 10-15 minutes.
2. For softer rolls: Wrap the frozen rolls in foil first before heating in the 325 F oven for 10-15 minutes. The foil will seal in some of the moisture and help steam the rolls, making for a softer, fluffier roll.

Expert Tips for Making the Best Copycat Texas Roadhouse Rolls

1. Do NOT add more flour when making the dough: Whether you knead the dough by hand or by machine do NOT add more flour. Most of the tackiness will go away as the dough rises. Enriched doughs are always tacky after you’ve kneaded them by nature. As the dough rises, the dough absorbs the liquids, taking away most of the tackiness.
2. Use a pizza cutter: While you can use a bench scraper

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   to cut the rolls, a pizza cutter makes ridiculously quick work. These rolls are so easy to make, and the pizza cutter makes it even easier. If you do use a bench scraper

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   instead, use one with a sharper edged metal blade. I cut through the rolls above with my bench scraper and then went over the cut lines with the pizza wheel

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   because the bench scraper didn’t cut through on this pastry cloth

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   . Bench scrapers do a better job cutting dough on counters!
3. Brush hot rolls with melted butter: When you brush rolls with butter, they will get almost as shiny as if you glazed them with egg before baking, plus the melted butter will keep the crust soft. These are not crusty rolls, so the butter is the key to getting that pillowy soft roll you’re dreaming of.

Other Make Ahead Yeast Dinner Rolls You Can Freeze

• Crockpot Dinner Rolls
• The Best Potato Rolls
• Copycat Outback Bread
• Hoagie Buns
• Super Soft Garlic Bread Rolls
• Homemade Hawaiian Sweet Rolls
• Deli Rye Pan Buns
• Potato Garlic Knots
• Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls
• Buttermilk Milk Bread Rolls

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