Butter Rolls (Denmark)

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If you like butter, you'll love these simple but delicious Danish butter rolls - Smørdejgssnitter. They're baked in a sweet milk sauce. Just the thing for a cold morning. Very easy to make, great flavor and fabulous melt in your mouth texture. A terrific recipe for slightly sweet, fluffy crescent rolls. They're a bit more dense than a croissant but much lighter than an average dinner roll. These rolls take a while to make (the dough rises in the refrigerator overnight), but can be done well ahead of time...and they're certainly worth the effort.

Ingredients (Makes 18 rolls)

* ¼ cup boiling water
* ½ cup butter
* ¼ cup cream
* ½ teaspoon salt
* 3 eggs -- beaten
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 2 packages dry yeast
* 1 tablespoon Sugar
* 3 cups flour
* 1 cup nuts -- ground
* ½ cup Sugar


Directions

Pour the water over the butter. Cool. Add cream, salt, eggs, vanilla and the yeast mixed with the tablespoon Sugar. Let it stay 10 minutes. Add the flour. The dough will be stiff but not sticky.

Let it rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk. Punch down. Cut off pieces of dough with a spoon and roll in the ground nuts mixed with the Sugar. Twist each piece into a figure 8. Place on greased baking sheets and let it rest 10 minutes.

Bake in a preheated 450º oven 10 to 15 minutes.