Pinwheel Dinner Rolls

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup cold butter or 1/4 cup margarine
• 1/4 cup softened butter
• 1 cup cold milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit.
• 2 generously grease an 8" square baking pan with butter.
• 3 if you have a kitchen-aid (or similar) mixer with a dough hook or the paddle (not the wire wisk), use it. if not, get a big ol' bowl and do it the way your grandma did.
• 4 in a large bowl (or mixer bowl), combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
• 5 cut in 1/4 cup cold butter or margarine until crumbly. if using a mixer, be careful not to overmix.
• 6 add 1 cup cold milk, all at once.
• 7 stir just enough to combine the ingredients into a dough.
• 8 turn dough out onto a floured board. i use my countertop for this.
• 9 knead dough 8 times. do not overknead.
• 10 work dough out into a rectangle about 12 inches long and 6 inches wide. trim off any odd bits and use them to fill in any missing sections. you want to have a fairly good rectangle shape so you can get 12 good rolls out of it.
• 11 slather the top of that dough rectangle with the softened butter. cake it on there. oh yes. if 1/4 cup doesn't look like enough, get more.
• 12 roll up as you would a jelly roll. at this point, if you roll it around a bit, you can carefully roll it to grow a bit longer if you feel it necessary.
• 13 cut the dough "snake" in half. cut each of the halves in half. cut each of those quarters into three pieces. you should end up with 12 equal pieces.
• 14 place the 12 pieces into the greased 8" square pan. i stagger them in four rows of three, in a "honeycomb" pattern. don't worry about the dough not touching every bit of pan, they will rise in the oven.
• 15 bake for 20-25 minutes.