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 Pepperoni Rolls – adapted slightly from allrecipes dot com

½ cup warm water

½ teaspoon granulated sugar

1 (.25-oz) package active dry yeast

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

6 tablespoons granulated sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 egg, beaten

¼ cup butter, melted

1 (8-oz) package sliced pepperoni

Dissolve ½ teaspoon of sugar in the warm water. Sprinkle yeast over the water and let stand 5 minutes.

Add flour, 6 Tbs. sugar, and salt to the bowl of the Cuisinart.  Pulse a few times.  Add in yeast mixture, beaten egg, and melted butter.  Process until dough forms a ball and is glossy.  Not very long when using the Cuis.

Oil a large bowl, place dough in bowl and turn to coat with oil.  Cover with a clean dish towel, place in a warm place (80-95 degrees) until doubled in volume, about 1 ½ hours.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Punch down dough and divide into 10 equal pieces about the size of a golf ball.  Using hands, flatten each piece into approx. a 4” square. Place 3 slices of pepperoni down the center of each dough square, overlapping the pieces.  Place another row of 2 slices next to the first.  Roll the dough around the pepperoni slices, pinch the edges closed, and place the rolls on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake rolls 14 – 16 minutes or until the bottoms are lightly browned and the tops are barely golden.

 I actually divided the dough and made 5 pepperoni rolls and put the other 5 balls of dough in the freezer as a test and also as a waistline safety precaution.  The next week I let those dough balls defrost and then baked them following the above directions.  Perfect dinner rolls!

*Danger Will Robinson is a fun phrase and one used to describe this recipe but one I never heard first hand. For whatever reason, we never watched that tv show so I looked it up in Wikipedia.  According to Wikipedia, the phrase was only used in one episode!