Easy Short-Cut Orange Rolls
These shortcut orange rolls produce a soft, fluffy orange roll with orange glaze without requiring you to make your own bread dough.
Servings rolls
Ingredients
Orange Rolls
- ½ bag frozen Rhodes Rolls unbaked dough, about 18 rolls
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- zest from 1 very large or 2 medium oranges
- ½ stick butter melted
Glaze
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- ½ tablespoon butter melted
- 4 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Thaw rolls until thawed but not risen. You can pop the bag in the fridge overnight, or place rolls on a baking sheet at room temp. Mine took about an hour to thaw.
- While thawing, mix sugar and orange zest in a shallow bowl with a fork until sugar becomes a pale orange color. Take each dough ball and gently stretch to about a 6-inch rope. Dip rope in butter and then roll in sugar mixture. Then tie in a simple knot and place on baking sheet.
- Let dough rise until about double- they should be nice and plump. Bake in a pre-heated 350℉ oven until browned, about 20 minutes or so.
- When they are just about done, whisk glaze ingredients until smooth. Let rolls cool until just warm before drizzling on glaze. Rolls will be sitting in a very delicious mixture of gooey sugar (think of the bottom of the cinnamon roll pan, but orange flavor) so you might want to transfer rolls to serving plate before that hardens.
Notes
If you want to make these ahead of time, form your knots but don't let rise. Instead, cover with plastic wrap and store in fridge. Pull out in the morning to rise and bake.
For your grocery list, you'll need a bunch of zest and a little juice- just grab 4 large oranges to be safe!
Nutrition
Serving: 1roll with glaze, Calories: 186kcal, Carbohydrates: 42g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 1g, Saturated Fat: 0.2g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.02g, Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g, Trans Fat: 0.02g, Cholesterol: 1mg, Sodium: 136mg, Potassium: 3mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 28g, Vitamin A: 13IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 1mg, Iron: 0.02mg
Calories: 186kcal
Cost: $8
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