Texas Roadhouse Rolls – sweet, fluffy and buttery copycat Texas Rolls generously slathered with homemade melted honey cinnamon butter. All you need is just one bite and you’ll be in bread heaven!
If you’ve been following me for a while, you know how much I love bread! Honestly, I’d take any form of bread over chocolate. When I eat out, I always devour the bread first until I remind myself to stop and that I’m paying for the main course.
Throughout this site, I have a couple of them and they are all my favorite! If you love a kiss of sweetness, you can try these Hawaiian Sweet Rolls. Want a “coconut” bread? Then have a bunch of these Samoan Coconut Bread Rolls. Or if you want a slightly spiced version, you can never go wrong with this Easter favorite Hot Cross Buns (with VIDEO included).
See how much I love bread?
With that addiction, I know I have to master the art of baking homemade bread. That warm fresh from the oven smell is simply therapeutic for me. I even do a lot of baking even during summer. I live and breathe for all of the warm fresh bread.
Perhaps, it was all due to the fact that our family way back then would simply enjoy bread for breakfast, snacks or even for dinner. There’s probably a fair amount of yeast mixed in my blood now.
These Texas Roadhouse Rolls are a copycat version from a restaurant. You’d love how fluffy, buttery, tender they are; brushed with warm, melted butter with a hint of sweetness.
You won’t be able to stop at one! And the good part of these rolls here, they are so easy to make. The only hard thing about this recipe I guess, is waiting for the dough to rise.
And these rolls here wouldn’t be complete without this melted honey cinnamon butter. It pairs perfectly with these Texas Roadhouse Rolls! Oh don’t worry, it only uses a few ingredients that are already sitting in your pantry and it’s sooo easy to whip up. You’ll certainly want a jar of this and generously slather it on all the bread that you’ll consume. 😉
Go on. I won’t hold you back. Feel that silky smooth cinnamon butter spread kissing that warm tender fluffy surface of those rolls!
But hey, I’ve tried these rolls too as sandwiches and they are still as addictive with or without that spread.
Now let’s get those hands baking and whip up some fantastic rolls for dinner!
Happy Easter !!!
How To Make Texas Roadhouse Rolls
In a standing mixer combine lukewarm water and yeast. Let it sit until dissolve for about 5 minutes. Meanwhile in a microwave safe medium bowl, combine milk, with the butter pieces, sugar, salt and microwave for about a minute.
Stir until everything is melted. Dump everything into the yeast mixture. Whisk an egg into the the mixture. If the mixture is too hot, let it cool to a warm mixture to prevent eggs from curdling. Mix for 2 minutes at medium speed.
Add about 3 ½ cups of flour and continue mixing dough. Add in enough additional flour (if needed) to make soft dough.
Turn dough on lightly floured surface and knead for 3-4 minutes or more if you want airy bread. Place dough in a greased bowl, turning once to coat the dough.
Cover loosely with a clean cloth and let rise in a warm, draft-free place for 1 to 2 hours or until doubled. Punch the dough down.
Roll dough into a rectangle, about 1” thickness.
Use any sharp object (I use this pastry cutter) like a knife or pizza cutter to cut dough into squares.
Preheat oven to 350 F°. Spray cookie sheet pan with oil or butter, then place rolls on oiled pan about ½ – 1” apart. Cover lightly with kitchen towel and let rise for about 30 minutes or until dough is puffy.
Bake 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Brush with remaining melted butter. Remove from the baking pan and let it cool. I like to eat mine when it is still warm.
For the Cinnamon Honey Butter: Combine butter, confectioners’ sugar, honey, and cinnamon, in a small bowl. Then mix with a mixer or by hand until blended. Serve with rolls or refrigerate until ready to use.
Watch How To Make It
Texas Roadhouse Rolls
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 ¼ teaspoon (6 grams) Yeast
- 1 cup (244 ml ) milk
- 6 tablespoons (88.72 grams ) unsalted butter
- 5-6 tablespoons (73.93 grams ) sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons (7.5 grams ) salt
- 1 large egg
- 3 1/2 -3 3/4 cups (437.50 - 468.75 ) All purpose flour
- butter unsalted , for brushing over the finished rolls
Cinnamon Honey Butter
- 2 ounce (56.7 grams ) butter , unsalted and softened
- 1 1/2 - 2 tablespoon ( 14.79 grams) powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoon ( 29.57 ml honey
- 1/2 teaspoon ( 3 grams ) or more cinnamon spice
Instructions
- In a standing mixer combine lukewarm water and yeast. Let it sit until dissolve for about 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile in a microwave safe medium bowl, combine milk, with the butter pieces, sugar, salt and microwave for about a minute. Stir until everything is melted.
- Dump everything into the yeast mixture.
- Whisk an egg into the the mixture .
- If the mixture is too hot let it cool to a warm mixture to prevent eggs from curdling
- Mix for 2 minutes at medium speed. Add about 3 ½ cups of flour and continue mixing dough.
- Add in enough additional flour (if needed) to make soft dough. Err on the side of caution less flour , rather than more.
- Turn dough on lightly floured surface and knead for 3-4 minutes or more if you want airy bread.
- Place dough in a greased bowl, turning once to coat the dough Cover loosely with a clean cloth and let rise in a warm, draft-free place for 1 to 2 hours or until doubled.
- Punch the dough down.
- Roll dough into a rectangle, about 1” thickness. Use any sharp object like knife or pizza cutter to cut dough into squares.
- Preheat oven to 350 F°.
- Spray cookie sheet pan with oil or butter , then place rolls on oiled pan about ½ – 1” apart. Cover lightly with kitchen towel and let rise for about 30 minutes or until dough is puffy.
- Bake 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Brush with remaining melted butter.
- Remove from the baking pan and let it cool. I like to eat mine when it is still warm.
Cinnamon Honey Butter
- Combine butter, confectioners’ sugar, honey, and cinnamon, in a small bowl. Then mix with a mixer or by hand until blended. Serve with rolls or refrigerate until ready to use.
Dorian Tsukioka says
This was a great recipe! I even made the dough the night before and put it in the fridge to rise overnight. I rolled it out and cut it while cold and let it do a slow second rise while the dough came to room temperature. Baked beautifully and tasted great. My kids devoured them. Will definitely be making these again.
Immaculate Bites says
Thank you, Dorian!
Jennifer Waalen says
I loved this recipe!!! I have made them more then once.
question! can I prepare these but then not bake them until the following day?
ImmaculateBites says
Yes you can. I do it all the time . Make sure it is refrigerated . Enjoy!
Jackie Lomas says
This recipe is definitely NOT like Texas Roadhouse rolls at all. It’s decent bread but tastes like any other at home recipe for bread or rolls. The butter I enjoyed though.
Immaculate Bites says
Sorry you didn’t enjoy the rolls as I would have loved you to, Jackie. Thank you for trying out the recipe!
Anita Hallum says
I am wondering if the amount of water is accurate. I make yeast rolls frequently and usually use a cup of warm water with the yeast.
ImmaculateBites says
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have adjusted the liquid – use 1/4 cup water . Start with 3 1/2 cup flour and adjust flour as needed.
HB says
I never comment but after some of the negative reviews I wanted to add some positive. I make these rolls all the time! It’s a great recipe and easy to do!
ImmaculateBites says
Great! Thanks for the feedback.
Olivia Gonzales says
Hi. My name is Olivia. I’m not sure what happened, but I did follow your recipe exactly, and the bread never rose after 30 minutes. My mom decided that sonetimes dough needs to rise overnight. We did that and this morning the dough didn’t get any bigger. Was the same. We turned the oven on and stuck them in the oven. Still nothing. They just burned and got rock hard. I don’t know if we should try again, but not today anyways, but I just don’t want to go through this again if this is what’s going to keep happening. Could you tell me what I did wrong, or give me a point or two in the right direction? I wish I could’ve enjoyed them, instead of having burn bread.
ImmaculateBites says
Hi Olivia,
Sorry to hear it did not work out well. There might be several reasons why this happen. Here are a few reasons why
– Expired yeast – make sure your east is not old.
– Your water should be slightly warm – but not hot . Hot water will kill the yeast.
– Also measure ingredients correctly- too much flour would result in a tough dough and might prevent it from rising .
Hope this helps.
Tracey Dysert says
This recipe didn’t work for me and I’m not sure why. I’ve been making bread and rolls for years. Don’t get why you would heat your oven to 350° to make these rise the second time before baking….??? I hate wasting food items. Really wanted to make these and have with our loaded baked potato soup tomorrow. Not sure if I will try this recipe again.
ImmaculateBites says
So sorry to hear this. You let the dough rise on the counter for 30 minutes , before placing in the oven to cook.
Amanda says
What kind of yeast should I do ? First time trying to make this and I would like to know what brands to buy to have the best outcome !
ImmaculateBites says
Hi Amanda, You can get Red star or Fleischmann’s active or rapid rise yeast . Happy Baking !!