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Monday, January 3, 2011

Pull-Apart Squash Rolls

These warm apricot-hued beauties have been hanging around just waited to be talked about for a little over a month now...and I think it's about time they received some praise.  A second round of praise.  While the fact that they are infused with their gorgeous color by winter squash may throw you for a loop at first...you expect them to taste like squash, too...once the soft, slightly sweet roll tickles their taste buds, you all but forget there's even squash in them.  Not that squash is a bad thing.  Quite the contrary, actually.  Just sayin'.
Amongst the three types of rolls that charmingly carbed-up our meal that night (brioche and poppyseed being the other two), these unassumingly stole the show! So you may or may not remember that these other two rolls were made for a certain day where we give thanks and eat turkey...and how during mad preparation for this day, I discovered the beauty that is a bread maker.  Well, in the interest of freeing up time, hands, and counter space...I bravely adapted a regular bread dough (from The Tate's Bakeshop Cookbook) into a bread maker dough.  And it worked!   I think it's basically just figuring out the order to put it in the machine...but since I didn't have a manual to said machine, I was pretty proud of myself for working it all out. 
Pull-Apart Squash Rolls
bread machine method
makes 16 rolls

½ c.  warm milk
¼ c. warm water
 4 Tbs. salted butter, melted & cooled to room temp.
½ c. butternut squash, cooked & mashed
1/3 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
3 c. unbleached ap flour
2½  tsp. instant yeast (or bread machine yeast)

Place all ingredients in the pan of the bread machine in the order listed, starting at the top.  Set machine to dough cycle and let it run through the rise, until machine turns off.  How incredibly easy was that!?

Turn dough out only a lightly floured surface and divide dough into 16 pieces.  Form each piece into a roll, and place side by side in a 9" square pan that has been greased.  Cover with film or a clean kitchen towel and let sit until doubled in size, ~1-1½ hrs.

Preheat oven to 350° F during last 15 minutes or so of rise time.  Bake for ~20 minutes, until they are nice and golden orange.  Gently flip the whole thing out of the pan and cool on a rack.  Or bring them to the table while still slightly warm.
Happy first Monday of the year! ☺


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  1. Que pintaza y tiernecito se ve los bollitos, la verdad es que se ven una delicia.

    Saludos y feliz año

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  2. Oh me, oh my. I want! Happy new year!!

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  3. I do not need to be convinced that these rolls would be moist and delicious Heather.

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  4. What an amazing colour! These look so good - I bet they would make a wonderful burger bun too.

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  5. They look great! I've seen something similar, just not with squash, and baked in a cast-iron pan slathered with garlic and butter. I imagine you could do the same to yours (cast iron, dunno if the garlic and butter would suit).

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  6. They look gorgeous, nice and fresh and comfy. Happy New Year!

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  7. Beautiful! And I love the colour too.
    They look so soft and scrumptious.

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  8. There is just something about pull-apart rolls that are so inviting. Warm, buttery, soft, fluffy....I need to get back to baking bread again!

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  9. These look so heavenly! I love pull apart rolls, and I imagine that the squash adds such great moistness and flavor. Thank you for sharing with me. I hope you are having a lovely start to the first week of 2011!

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  10. Rolls look super duper soft and fluffy.I want to make these...they look amazing...and I can almost smell them from here :)

    US Masala

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  11. these are just lovely, i've never thought to make bread with squash, but i imagine it's delicious!

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  12. The color of those rolls is just gorgeous. I've used pumpkin in rolls before, but never would have thought to use squash. Looks like a delicious addition to any meal.

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  13. I love squash bread! The squash adds a subtle delicious flavor and keeps the bread nice and moist. These would be the perfect accompanyment alongside any fall or winter meal. Super yum! =)

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  14. I don't think I have ever tried anything like this, I NEED a bread maker pronto!

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  15. Those rolls look so amazingly fluffy! I love that you used squash in them!

    Happy New Year to you and your family! Hope you have a blessed 2011!

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  16. I wish you were my neighbour.

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  17. I love squash. My husband hates squash. I would lovvveee to make this for him and feed it to him. hehehe

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  18. Ay. Dios. Mio. Those pull apart rolls look amazing. The addition of squash sounds delicious. And I just made a large batch on New Year's day.

    Happy New Year! :)

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  19. I can't wait to try these - they sound wonderful! And I love that I can use my bread machine too!

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  20. I have been enjoying your bread posts lately and they almost (I said almost) make me want to bake but gee whiz there are so many bakeries all over the place that it makes it difficult to want to eat my hard tack when I could just get a loaf for a buck and a half or so....you are weakening me though - little by little.

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  21. Oh My... on my list to make. I just love the way I am imagining these smell. Great photos that really make you smell these through the screen

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  22. Heather, these little rolls look gorgeous - love the colour. Love that you used your bread machine too - I use my bread machine for all bread making, even pizza dough. I love making things from scratch, and I love home-made bread, but I'm more than happy to let the bread maker do the hard work while I do other things :-)
    Sue

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  23. Oh these rolls look so soft and delicious! Puffs of heaven.

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  24. They are so fluffy, soft and airy looking I just want to snatch one or two up and devour them! So yummy!

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  25. Your kitchen must smell delicious with all of the wonderful things you're making in there! These rolls look yummy- so fluffy and golden. I froze some cushaw squash earlier this fall and I think it would be good in these. :)

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