Orange Rolls

Single guy recipe: Canned biscuits, white sugar, butter, brown sugar, Orange Marmalade (or cinnamon). Orange (or vanilla) canned icing. Turn over upside down into another pan halfway through cooking for caramel topping goodness everywhere.

To Ron who asked if using some orange juice to replace milk would work. Maybe but the milk adds protein and the OJ would sour the milk (which probably wouldn't matter). A better way to get more orange in the dough is to use Orange Oil (Amazon has Boyajian Citrus Oil Collection - with lemon, orange and lime as well as a larger bottle of just orange; King Arthur also carries it). The oil is strong, 1/4 to 1/2 tsp per cup of flour. This is also great when you don't want to zest an orange.

Just made this for a dinner dessert. Very easy, very good. Added 1 tsp of strong orange oil to the dough since I wanted to amp up the orange flavor (Boyajian Citrus Oil Collection from Amazon or King Arthur).

Using dental floss in lieu of a serrated knife works well. Simply garrotte the log of dough by sliding the dentals floss under and twist it around the dough. Easy clean cut. Just don’t use mint flavored floss!!

This is a very soft dough and needs a solid chilling time.

If I didn’t have Covid right now and am self isolating, I would be in the kitchen making these now. But you better believe, this will be the first thing I bake when I am all better.

I found a delicious time saver. Kroger sells frozen yeast rolls (36 to a bag). I take out 12, allow them to defrost. Roll each one out, spread the filling (needed a bit more that recipe states) and proceed with the directions. SO easy with very little cleanup.

My German grandmother made the best yeasted orange rolls! She did not use cinnamon at all. The filling contained soft butter, frozen oj concentrate, orange zest and sugar. I don't have her exact recipe but have managed to create something very similar. I make a sweet yeast dough in my bread machine.

The first orange only contributes its zest in the recipe. Could some of its juice be combined with the milk for the liquid, keeping the total to the recipe amount?

I wonder if whole-milk buttermilk could be substituted for the whole milk/half-and-half?

Rather poorly written directions but good recipe overall. Grapefruit zest in glaze makes a nice zingy touch.

Nice twist on a classic. I used a mix of white and whole wheat flours, and reduced the sugar by 10%, because my doctor says I need more fibre and less sugar in my diet. The rolls still turned out nice! Also: I like the fact that this produces a (relatively) small batch -- 8 rather than 12 rolls. Will make again.

These are very yummy! I used a little extra zest everywhere and put some on top of the icing too. I have an orange tree full of oranges though, I'm sure it is not needed. Each step takes a while, but if you've previously made homemade rolls you know it's worth it. Made a double batch for neighbors, recipe needed no adjustment. I added the juice of half a lemon to the glaze just because I love a bit more sour with the sweet.

I would! Airtight container. I’d do fridge and save back some of that icing for fresh melting onto a reheated roll. But why not bake & eat what you want now, refrigerate the rest, and bake off hot each time? Recipe says you can store in fridge a couple of days & bake cold.

Easy to make. Tender and delicious. I baked exactly as written, let rolls hang out in the fridge for a couple of hours before baking. Makes a delightful roll, I was seeking a recipe where I did not have to make a yeast dough. Perfect on a snowy morning with a hot cup of coffee!