Pillsbury Hot Roll Mix: Review

My biggest weakness when it comes to foods are breads. I love any kind of bread! Pizza, rolls, or cinnamon buns, I love them all. Of course homemade breads are the best tasting, but over the years I have found ways to cheat and make my family think I have made my breads from scratch!

Pillsbury helps me do just that with their Hot Roll Mix. The front of the one pound box reads, “Scratch Bakiing Made Easy!” The box contains the flour mixture and a package of Red Star Dry Yeast. The instructions are printed on the back of the box, and are super easy to follow. Most of what you’ll need to make these rolls is already included in the box, but you will have to have on hand one egg and 2 tablespoons of butter or margarine.

Directions

While you are preheating your oven, you simply mix the flour mixture with the yeast, stir in one cup of hot water, margarine and egg and stir well. Kneading is required, on a floured surface, but this only takes 5 minutes. Once that fun job is done, you cover the dough with your bowl, let it rest for 5 minutes, and use as desired for your specific recipe.

Instructions are given for making both pan or crescent rolls. Each of these recipes will result in 16 rolls. Once the rolls are made, you will need to cover them again and let them rise for up to 30 minutes, or until they are doubled in size. Once they have raised to your satisfaction, you bake them for 15-20 minutes.

The side of the box also gives directions for making pizza crust or cinnamon rolls.

Ingredients

Enriched flour, sugar, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils, dry yeast, and 2% or less of salt, nonfat milk, soy lecithin, and ascorbic acid.

Thoughts

These are the best tasting rolls! My biggest reluctance to making dinner rolls from scratch is all the measuring I have to do. Pillsbury makes it so easy, most everything is already mixed together in the bag. The salt, leavening, milk, etc are already in the mix! This means the chore of making homemade bread or rolls has gotten a lot easier! And my family doesn’t know that I didn’t make these completely from scratch!

Every time I make these rolls I get rave reviews. I’ve made them for Thanksgiving dinners, taken them to potlucks, and even used them for mini sub sandwiches for our Superbowl party, everyone loves them!

If you are rushed and want to make them ahead of time, you can do that. You simply cover the dough with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for up to 24 hours. When you take it out you will need to let the dough stand on the counter at room temperature until it’s doubled in size, then bake as directed.

One roll contains 110 calories, but only 1.5 grams of fat, with zero saturated fat. They also contain zero cholesterol, 21 carbs, 1 gram of fiber, 2 grams of sugar and 4 grams of protein.

When these rolls are baking, they fill the house with the best smell! They rise nicely, have a nice rounded crown, and the center rolls as well as the edge rolls always come out to the perfect doneness.

Fresh bread is a treat in our house, and if your family loves it too, but you can’t find the time to make it 100% from scratch, this Pillsbury Hot Roll Mix is the next best thing.

I purchased my 1 pound box for $2.00, and it makes 15 rolls per box.