Orange Rolls: Your Recipe, My Kitchen

 

I have a thing for oranges and yeast dough.  I think they are a match made in Heaven.  That little zing of zest, that soft bread.  I may just have to go out to my kitchen and bake after I write this...I am making myself hungry!

 

I have been on the lookout for the perfect orange roll.  Long ago, I mean ages and ages ago, I bookmarked this orange roll recipe  from Get Off Your Butt and Bake!  In fact, it's been so long that Jonna, the author, has a new url now.  Go here to see her new blog.  She didn't import all of her old stuff to the new blog, so you may want to visit both places.  This is definitely a great roll.  Now if I could just find an orange bread recipe I like....

Orange Rolls (taken from Get Off Your Butt and Bake!)

dough:

1 cup sour cream

1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice

3 Tbsp butter

1/2 cup sugar

3 eggs, beaten slightly

1 tsp salt

1 Tbsp yeast 

1/4 cup warm water

1 tsp sugar

4 cups flour 

filling: 

6 Tbsp butter, melted

zest from 1 orange

1/2 cup sugar

glaze: 

2 1/2 cups powdered sugar

2 Tbsp room temperature butter

juice of 1 orange

Warm sour cream, orange juice and butter in the microwave until butter is almost melted.  Stir warm mixture until butter completely melts.  Add sugar, salt and eggs.  In a small bowl, combine yeast and water and let sit until bubbly.  Add yeast to sugar  mixture.  Stir in flour and knead until smooth.  Cover bowl and let rise until doubled (about 1 hour).  Punch down dough, roll out on a floured surface into a large rectangle.  Spread it with 6 Tbsp butter, then the sugar and zest.  Roll up jelly-roll style and slice into rolls.  Place in greased pans, cover and let rise until double again.  Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown.  Remove from oven and let cool 10-15 minutes before glazing (or the glaze will just slide right off the rolls).  To make the glaze, mash the butter into the powdered sugar with a spoon or beat in with a mixer.  Slowly add the orange juice until the glaze reaches the desired consistency.  Spread on rolls and EAT!

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