Sunday, November 1, 2009

Portuguese Sweet Rolls


Are these gorgeous or what? They're Portuguese Sweet Rolls and Peanut Head made them. Really. He is a man of many talents. I looooooooove them. I've been known to beg him to make them for me. Sure, I could make them myself, but why would I when I'm living with The Bread Man?

When we got married I was the bread maker. Then the Barefoot Contessa bought Peanut Head a bread machine and my skills were kicked to the curb. Everyone started buying him bread machine cookbooks, he had so much fun baking, baking, baking.  And then he started experimenting, because that's the kind of guy he is, and he can never leave well enough alone. He's like the Enterprise, exploring strange new worlds, yada, yada, yada. 

That's neither here nor there though, you want to know how to make these rolls, right? Well, the recipe is posted at the end if you just want to skip the blah, blah and get right to it. Otherwise, Peanut Head is going to demonstrate how he gets his buns so cute. I mean his rolls.

Oh never mind, watch this.


Peanut Head starts with his dough that has just come out of the bread machine.


Then he starts with a piece of dough equal to approximately a third of a cup, give or take. The size is not super important because you can have little bitty buns, or gigondo buns, like me. You pick.

Then you need to roll that bit of dough into a little snake. Remember doing that with play dough? Same thing.


Stretch it out a wee little bit so you have enough length to tie it into a knot.


See how he holds his fingers as he's stretching his dough around them?


Almost there.


Ta da! It's certainly not rocket science, but it is bread science.


This is what they look like fresh out of the oven. They're almost worth the gigondo butt, aren't they? Who am I kidding? They are.

Here's that recipe card. Enjoy!


20 comments:

  1. I just love your recpie cards. They are always so cut.

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  2. I have heard nothing but Wonderful things about Portuguese Sweet Rolls. Yum!

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  3. He does indeed have some mad breadmaking skilz.....whoa, those look and smell fantastic ( I am imagining the fragrance! ;)

    Suzanne

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  4. These look delicious! I'm definitely going to have to try these!

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  5. Wow, those look absolutely delightful! Our local Portuguese makes the absolute best donuts I've ever tasted in my life, but only on the evening of special events. Peanut Head's sweet roll recipe brought these tantalizing treats to mind.

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  6. Those look incredibly cute and edible!

    But alas, I don't own a bread machine *gasp*

    Just wanted to add that your recipe cards are amazing! It's such a wonderful idea, I love them :)

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  7. thanks for the recipe! these look yum! as soon as i get my oven installed i have to try to make these!

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  8. Those do look so very incredibly yummy! Thanks for sharing the awesome recipe!

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  9. I make those too!! I love the little knots:-)

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  10. Wow! I love how those came out! They look delicious!!!!

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  11. Oh wow! These are beautiful and they look so delicious!! Thank you SO much for posting them.

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  12. Yummmm! I so want to try these!

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  13. *prints our recipe and goes to make some sweet rolls*

    :D

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  14. YUMMY! Too bad I don't have a bread machine to mix the dough, though. No way am I going to be mixing dough by hand...

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  15. I think I willl see if I can get my husband to bake some of these! They look yummy! Love the recipe card, too!

    By the way, I juste posted on how to create a post divider and I thought you would want to know ;)

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  16. Awesome! Thanks for sharing the recipe...didn't know peanut head was of any use in the kitchen; that's great.
    OK I am going to try this in a couple of days and see if I can get them to look that pretty:-)

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  17. This makes me REALLY wish that my bread maker wasn't broken. Those look SO good and perfect for Thanksgiving... YUM!

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  18. What great looking rolls! You make it look so easy for someone like me who is baking challenged most times :)

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  19. Very impressive!! They look very delicious! Thank for sharing!!

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