Cranberry Swirl Rolls With Cream Cheese Frosting

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clock1 hr 25 minscourseBreakfast

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Tangy pick food enriches the dough for these sweet-and-tart meal rolls, and it makes the frosting that goes connected apical extra-lush. Fresh cranberries and orangish zest travel unneurotic for the filling, which takes minutes to puree successful a blender. To service these for a vacation breakfast, marque the dough and signifier the rolls the nighttime before, and fto them emergence overnight earlier baking. It’s easiest to marque this dough successful a basal mixer, though it tin besides beryllium made by manus (see NOTE).

Leftovers whitethorn beryllium refrigerated for up to 4 days.

Unbaked rolls tin beryllium assembled and allowed to emergence successful the refrigerator overnight earlier baking. Frosting and cranberry filling tin beryllium made up to 3 days successful advance.

From unit writer G. Daniela Galarza.

Ingredients

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Servings: 10-12 (Makes 12 buns.)

For the dough

1/4 cupful (50 grams) granulated sugar
One (1/4-ounce/7.5-gram) packet oregon 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
3/4 cupful (180 milliliters) full milk, somewhat lukewarm to the touch
4 cups (500 grams) all-purpose flour, positive much for rolling
3 ample eggs
1/2 spoon good oversea brackish oregon array salt
4 ounces (115 grams) plain pick food oregon unsalted butter, acold and chopped into cubes (see NOTE)
1 tablespoonful unsalted butter, softened, for greasing pan

For the filling

3 cups (12 ounces/340 grams) caller oregon frozen cranberries
1/2 cupful (60 grams) confectioners’ sugar
1 tablespoonful finely grated orangish zest (from 1 ample orange)

For the frosting

4 ounces (115 grams) pick cheese, softened (see NOTE)
1 instrumentality (4 ounces/113 grams) unsalted butter, softened but inactive chill to the touch
2 cups (250 grams) confectioners’ sugar
1 spoon vanilla extract oregon orangish blossom h2o (optional)
1/4 spoon good oversea brackish oregon array salt

Nutritional Facts

Per rotation (based connected 12, made with pick cheese)

Calories
450
Fat
17 g
Saturated Fat
10 g
Carbohydrates
67 g
Sodium
235 mg
Cholesterol
92 mg
Protein
8 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
32 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From unit writer G. Daniela Galarza.

Tested by Ann Maloney.

Published December 14, 2021

Updated March 17, 2026