Butter Buns
Butter Buns from Make Ahead Bread by Donna Currie. The easiest dinner rolls I’ve ever made!
Make Ahead Bread by Donna Currie is a must-have cookbook! I am so proud of my good friend and Virtual Potluck partner of Cookistry! Donna was already pretty famous for her bread making skills and it comes as no surprise for her cookbook to totally knock my socks off.
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Make Ahead Bread has 100 recipes for Melt-in-Your-Mouth Fresh Bread Every Day Plus Butters & Spreads, there is something for everyone. The recipes have a 2 step process where you mix and knead the bread and then let it rest for a day or so and then you bake it when you are ready.
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The recipes are approachable and totally crave worthy! I’m sharing the recipe for Butter Buns. I made these for Thanksgiving Dinner and they were seriously the easiest rolls I’ve ever made. They were downright delicious with our prime rib roast.

I have at least 7 recipes marked to try immediately, including the baguettes, blueberry and cream cheese buns with lemon zest, honey potato buns, and grandma pizza plus a few more! Gorgeous photos and amazing recipes, you are going to love it!

To celebrate, we are bringing back the whole Virtual Potluck gang! So be sure to visit them all for more delicious recipes from Make Ahead Bread!
Now how about that recipe for the easiest ever dinner rolls, which make a double amazing breakfast with a little warm honey! 
Butter Buns
Ingredients
- Nonstick Baking Spray
- 1 cup room temperature water
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast
- 3 cups (13 1/2 ounces0 bread flour plus more as needed
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 stick 8 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- ON PREP DAY
- Spray a 9 x 1-inch baking pan with nonstick baking spray.
- Combine the water, sugar, yeast, flour and salt in a stand mixer and knead with the sought hook until smooth. Add the butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, letting each tablespoon incorporate into the dough before adding the next.
- Cover the bowl and set the dough aside to rise until it has doubled in size, about 1 hour .
- Flour your work surface and turn oth the dough. Divide it into 12 equal pieces and roll each piece into a ball.
- Arrange the balls on the prepared baking pan and cover it with plastic wrap or place it in a large plastic bag and tie the open end closed. Refrigerate overnight or up to 24 hours.
- ON BAKING DAY
- Take the sought out of the refrigerator and heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Remove the plastic and bake the buns until nicely browned and the internal temperature is 190 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer, about 25 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool




I want those beautiful buns for breakfast with my leftover Thanksgiving ham! Nice job Miss!
I pulled out an old recipe for my grandma’s yeast rolls for Thanksgiving and let’s just say some of the details were missing. I should have used this recipe instead. Next year!
I am a huge fan of brioche bread. Love the softness and taste. Great for toast or french toast.
Artisan Bread in 5 minutes a day is one of my favorite homemade bread recipes. I have committed the Master recipe to memory.
Great giveaway, thanks! My favorite bread is whatever I’m eating at the moment!
oh my gosh i am drooling over these!!
Favorite bread around here is Whole wheat or Cheddar Cheese Braid
Thanks for sharing your Butter Buns recipe. They look Absolutely, darn right, mouth watering delicious.
Thank you for this wonderful giveaway opportunity
My favorite bread is cinnamon raisin.
There is nothing as good as homemade bread. The aroma is a kicker to me. These look awesome.
Linda
So hard to choose a favorite. It seems I have a different favorite all the time. A fave for sandwiches, for toast, for eating with soup, etc. I guess I’ll say sourdough today!
I love all bread. Your butter buns look delicious. I love sour dough and cracked wheat bread a lot and cheddar and jalapeno bread.
Is it just me, or are the ingredients missing above? (Maybe my computer issues of late have gotten out of hand?)
My favorite is French Sweet bread, a recipe I’ve been making for over 30 years…but it’s really hard to find a bad bread, don’t you think? Yours above looks fantastic!
If you’re interested, here’s the recipe for my fave: http://bluebarnbulletin.blogspot.com/2009/03/french-sweet-bread.html
Thanks Karen! I have no idea what happened but the ingredients are back up!
Thanks-I’d love to try making these!
ANything soft and warm. Something perfect to have with cheese or butter. A good crunchy baguettes works too.
My favorite bread is hot of the oven yeast rolls.
My favorite bread is Maple wheat using Gram’s recipe and real Maple syrup. Yum! (ツ)
i love making English muffin bread. I would like to try my hand at sourdough someday.
I love a good french or sour dough bread!
So pretty! I love seeing how my recipes turn out when other people make them. Thanks so much for supporting my book.
These butter buns would be my favorite.
These buns look super easy to make. My favorite is a good sour dough french bread.