Green Cherry Sweet Rolls
Green Cherry Sweet Rolls are to die for! No kidding. These scrumptious sweet rolls have candied green cherries and almond flavoring in the filling. Then they're glazed with an almond-powdered sugar icing. They are so drool-worthy you won't want to stop eating them. Perfect for a holiday breakfast like Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's Day. We gave them away to several of our neighbors and everyone loved them!
Equipment
- 2 small sauce pans
- 1 large mixing bowl
- 2 wooden spoons
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
- 1 spatula
- 1 Rolling Pin
- 1 large bread board
- 1 sharp knife to cut rolls
- 1 9x13" glass baking dish
- 1 sharp knife to chop green cherries
- 1 whisk
Ingredients
DOUGH:
- 3 cups bread flour NOT all-purpose flour
- 1 pkg. dry yeast about 1/4 ounce or 2 1/4 teaspoons
- 1/2 stick unsalted butter (1/4 cup)
- 1/3 cup very warm water
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup 2% milk
- 2 large eggs beaten
FILLING:
- 2/3 cup light brown sugar packed
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter (1/2 stick)
- 1 tsp. almond extract
- 8 oz. container green cherries chopped
ICING:
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter (1/2 stick)
- 2 1/3 to 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar as needed
- 1 tsp. almond extract
- 1 to 2 tbsp. 2% milk or as needed
Instructions
DOUGH:
- Heat milk over low to medium heat until butter melts.
- Add to granulated sugar in large bowl and stir to dissolve sugar.
- Cool slightly.
- Then add beaten eggs.
- Stir in 1 cup bread flour with a wooden spoon.
- Dissolve yeast in hot water in small measuring cup.
- Add to above mixture.
- Continue to add flour one cup at a time, stirring after each addition.
- Slide onto floured board and roll and knead.
- Rest for 20 minutes on floured board under bowl filled with very hot water in warm place.
- Punch and knead again about 30 seconds.
- Roll dough into a large rectangle.
- Spread filling ingredients over top of dough (see below).
- Roll dough up jelly-roll style.
- Slice dough into two-inch pieces.
- Place in a greased, rectangular baking dish.
- Cover with tea towel and let rise 1 hour in warm place.
- Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Remove from oven place on rack.
- Pour icing over top.
- Allow rolls to cool and icing to set before serving.
FILLING:
- Melt butter in microwave in small mixing bowl.
- Add brown sugar, almond extract and combine.
- Spread over top of rolled rectangle-shaped dough.
- Chop green cherries and sprinkle over top of filling mixture.
- Roll up jelly-roll style.
- Cut in two-inch pieces and place in a greased, rectangular baking dish.
- Cover with a tea towel (not a terry-cloth towel) and allow rolls to raise one hour in a warm place.
- Bake as directed above.
ICING:
- Melt butter over low heat in sauce pan.
- Stir in milk.
- Then whisk in powdered sugar, one cup at a time, until all is worked in.
- If you want the icing a little thicker, add powdered sugar in 1/3 cup increments until you get the desired consistency.
- Stir in almond extract; heat over low heat until icing boils.
- Boil and stir for about three to five minutes over low heat.
- Whisk continuously; don’t allow the mixture to scorch.
- Slowly pour hot icing over top of all the sweet rolls, covering generously.
- Allow icing to dry before serving.
Notes
NOTE: I used bread machine yeast because that is what I had on hand.
NOTE: These are whopper-sized rolls. If you want to roll the dough out thinner, you can make smaller ones.
NOTE: To raise the bread, I usually heat my oven to 100 degrees then turn off oven. Cover the rolls with a tea towel (not terry cloth) and allow the bread to rise in the warmed oven. If the oven cools too much, I'll heat it again up to 100 degrees until the sweet rolls have been raising about an hour. Then remove the tea towel; turn on the oven and bake as directed above.
NOTE: Terry cloth will stick to and adhere to the dough. You will have a hard time peeling it out of the rolls and sometimes it will even stick to the dough and you can't remove it! Use flat-weaved tea towels instead to cover the dough while rising.
NOTE: These are monster-sized sweet rolls. If you want less calories, you can make them smaller or cut each in half.
Candied Green Cherries provided courtesy of Paradise Fruit Company.
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Nutrition
Calories: 707kcalCarbohydrates: 125gProtein: 8gFat: 20gSaturated Fat: 12gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 94mgSodium: 36mgPotassium: 121mgFiber: 1gSugar: 82gVitamin A: 616IUVitamin C: 0.03mgCalcium: 55mgIron: 1mg
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