Snowflake Dinner Rolls – the perfect addition to your holiday dinner table. Rolls topped with a hand-drawn butter mixture made with butter, flour, and hot water. Can draw any design on the rolls. These rolls are great for any holiday, cookouts, and potluck. A great recipe to let the kids help with! #bread #christmas
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These snowflake rolls are the perfect addition to your holiday dinner table. I made each roll have a snowflake design, but you can pipe anything you want on the rolls; swirls, letters, Christmas trees – the possibilities are endless! These rolls make a great presentation, and they are super easy to make. There is very little hands-on time. It just takes a few hours to let the frozen bread dough rise.
How to Make Snowflake Dinner Rolls
To make the rolls, place 12 frozen rolls in a cake pan and let rise. Mix together flour, butter, hot water, and garlic. Place the butter mixture into a piping bag fitted with a #4 tip and draw a snowflake on top of the rolls. Let the rolls chill for 5 or 10 minutes and then bake until golden brown.
- You can use any type of roll for this recipe since the festive part of the dish is the butter mixture that is piped on top.
- Here is our recipe for No-Knead Dinner Rolls: https://www.plainchicken.com/no-knead-dinner-rolls/
- I added a touch of garlic to the butter. That is totally optional. Feel free to add a dash of your favorite herbs and spices to the butter.
- We like to slather the rolls with some flavored butter:
- Garlic Parmesan Butter: https://www.plainchicken.com/garlic-parmesan-butter/
- Cinnamon Honey Butter: https://www.plainchicken.com/cinnamon-honey-butter/
- Creamy Honey Butter: https://www.plainchicken.com/creamy-honey-butter/
- Amish Peanut Butter Spread: https://www.plainchicken.com/amish-peanut-butter-spread/
- Garlic Parmesan Butter: https://www.plainchicken.com/garlic-parmesan-butter/
What to Serve with Dinner Rolls
These rolls are the perfect accompaniment to your holiday meal. They also make a mean leftover turkey or ham sandwich. As I said, you can draw any design on top of the rolls – your team logo, a name, a Christmas tree, an Easter egg, bunny, anything goes! This is a great recipe to let the kids help decorate!
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Snowflake Dinner Rolls
Ingredients:
- 12 Rhodes frozen bread roll dough
- 4 Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 4 Tbsp butter softened
- 1 tsp hot water
- ¼ tsp garlic powder, optional
Instructions:
- Lightly spray a 9-inch cake pan with cooking spray. Arrange 12 rolls in the pan. Cover and let rise in a warm place until double in size.
- Once rolls have risen, preheat oven to 350°F.
- Combine flour, butter, hot water, and garlic powder. Transfer the butter mixture to a piping bag fitted with #4 tip. Pipe snowflake design on top of each roll.
- Place the rolls in the refrigerator for about 5 minutes to let the butter mixture cool off. (I thought my butter got too warm in my hand when I was piping the design on)
- Bake for 20-25 minutes.
Notes:
- You can use any type of roll for this recipe since the festive part of the dish is the butter mixture that is piped on top.
- Here is our recipe for No-Knead Dinner Rolls: https://www.plainchicken.com/no-knead-dinner-rolls/
- I added a touch of garlic to the butter. That is totally optional. Feel free to add a dash of your favorite herbs and spices to the butter.
- We like to slather the rolls with some flavored butter:
- Garlic Parmesan Butter: https://www.plainchicken.com/garlic-parmesan-butter/
- Cinnamon Honey Butter: https://www.plainchicken.com/cinnamon-honey-butter/
- Creamy Honey Butter: https://www.plainchicken.com/creamy-honey-butter/
- Amish Peanut Butter Spread: https://www.plainchicken.com/amish-peanut-butter-spread/
- Garlic Parmesan Butter: https://www.plainchicken.com/garlic-parmesan-butter/
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This is probably a dumb question, but do you think it’d work with the frozen Sister Schubert rolls? Thanks! Love all your fun recipes! Have soooooo many saved!
Yes – any roll will work fine.
Thank you 🙂 Will have these on Christmas!
Pam – it took probably 2-3 hours. They have to thaw and then rise. I put them in my oven on 100 degrees to help the process.
Sorry to ask such a silly question….how long does it usually take for them to rise? 😉
I saw your idea just in time to thaw the rolls and have them for dinner. We loved them! I didn't have a piping bag so I just used the good old ziploc bag trick, worked great. I'll definitely be making these again, thanks!
I love this idea! I wish I had a piping bag 🙁
Cool idea!
wow, that's so cool, and cute!
Cheryl – yes, use 12 Rhodes frozen dough balls
Denise – yes, pipe the butter mixture on the rolls before you bake it and it doesn't melt – it is really amazing!
It says, "12 Rhodes frozen bread roll dough" — do you mean 12 rolls from the package????
Looks yummy!
Wow these look so good and you are so creative ! Just to make sure though, you pipe the butter snowflake BEFORE baking? It doesn't just melt off ????