Muesli Rolls | the Babes Get Healthy... and I'm a Babe!

These muesli rolls are full of lots of good things, such as oats, walnuts, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, and dried fruit. But the best thing is....

....I'm baking these rolls as a Babe. "What does that mean?" you ask. That means I'm a member of a very cool group of women who (virtually) get together every month and bake bread. For a while I've been baking along with the Babes as a Buddy, but this month, it's official! I am baking as a Babe!

This month Karen of Bake My Day is the Kitchen of the Month, and she chose these wonderful rolls from the book, Bread by Dean Brettschneider.

These rolls are fabulous fresh from the oven and slathered in butter. They are also amazing as sandwich rolls, filled with turkey or chicken salad. I also toasted them with white cheddar. Seriously tasty. They are wonderful for breakfast.... sort of like cereal packaged in a little portable bun!

They also freeze really well.

While the rolls are loaded with lots of ingredients that you might think would make them heavy and dense, they are surprisingly light and fluffy! Make them!

Muesli Rolls

Ingredients

Dough

450 grams (2 3/4 cups) bread flour

50 grams (1/3 cup) whole wheat flour

40 grams (1/2 cup) rolled oats

8 grams (2 3/4 tsp) instant yeast

10 grams (2 tsp) salt

30 grams (1 1/2 T) molasses

20 grams (1 T) honey

20 ml (4 tsp) olive oil

370 ml (1 1/2 cups) water

Muesli

40 grams (scant 1/2 cup) walnut pieces, chopped

30 grams (3 T) flaxseeds

20 grams (2 1/4 T) sesame seeds (I used toasted)

80 grams (1/2 C) sunflower seeds

80 grams (2/3 C) pumpkin seeds (I used roasted, salted pepitas)

40 grams (1/4 C) dried apricots, cut into pieces

80 grams (1/2 C) mini chocolate chips, optional (I did not add the chocolate)

Spray oil

100 grams (1 cup) rolled oats to decorate

Instructions

1. Add the dough ingredients to the bowl of a stand mixer and stir them together to moisten the dry ingredients. 
2. Mix with the spiral attachment for about 10 minutes, adding flour or water to adjust for the stickiness of the dough. I left my dough fairly sticky. 
3. Add the muesli ingredients, and knead for about 2 minutes, until evenly distributed. 
4. When the dough is smooth, scrape it into an oiled bowl or dough rising bucket. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise until doubled, about 90 minutes. Press the dough down and fold it over itself. Cover and let rise about 30 minutes more. 
5. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, sprinkle lightly with flour, and press it into a rectangle, about 3/4 inch thick. 
6. Cut it into 15 equal pieces. You can either keep the pieces as is, or form them into rounds. 
7. Line a half sheet pan with parchment paper and spray the paper with spray oil. 
8. Place the rolls on the parchment, evenly distributed. Spray the tops with spray oil. Sprinkle the rolls generously with the rolled oats and press them in with your fingers to flatten the rolls. 
9. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for about 45 minutes. 
10. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. If you have a stone, place it on the center rack. Place a broiler pan on the lower rack. 
11. Bring one cup of water to a boil. When the rolls are ready, remove the plastic wrap and mist the tops of the rolls with water.
12. Place the baking sheet on the center rack (on the stone if you have one, otherwise on the rack), and pour the boiling water into the broiler pan (cover your oven window while doing this), and then close the oven door. 
13. Bake for 25 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through. 
14. Cool on a wire rack. 

Would you like to be a Bread Baking Buddy?

Just make the rolls, then email your link (or email your photo and a bit about your experience if you don't have a blog) to BOTH bakemyday (at) gmail (dot) com AND to notitievanlien(at)gmail (dot) com add subject BBBuddy.

Submissions are due by July 1st. Once you've posted, you'll receive a Buddy badge for baking along, then watch for a roundup of all of the BBBuddies posts a few days after the close of submissions.

The Bread Baking Babes are:
Bake My Day - Karen
blog from OUR kitchen - Elizabeth
Bread Experience - Cathy
Feeding my Enthusiasms - Pat/Elle
girlichef - Heather
My Kitchen In Half Cups - Tanna
Notitie Van Lien - Lien
Thyme for Cooking - Katie (Bitchin’ Bread Baking Babe Bibliothécaire)
Karen’s Kitchen Stories – Karen (me!)
Judy’s Gross Eats – Judy
My Diverse Kitchen - Aparna
Life's a Feast - Jamie
Lucullian Delights - Ilva

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1. Muesli Rolls by Karen from Bake My Day!

2. Muesli Rolls by Tanna from My Kitchen in Half Cups

3. Muesli Rolls with Oat and Seed Soaker by Cathy from BreadExperience

4. Muesli Rolls by Heather from girlichef

5. Healthy Muesli Rolls by Elle from Feeding My Enthusiasms

6. Muesli Rolls by Judy from Judys Gross Eats

7. Muesli rolls by Lien from Notitie van Lien

8. Muesli Rolls by Elizabeth of blog from OUR kitchen

9. Muesli Rolls by Karen from Karens Kitchen Stories

10. Muesli Bread Rolls by Aparna from My Diverse Kitchen

11. Babes are a bit dense this month. Roundup by Katie at Thyme for Cooking