Strawberry Sweet Rolls

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Homemade, soft, spiralized rolls are filled with a sweet strawberry filling, baked to golden brown perfection and topped with a cream cheese frosting. These Homemade Strawberry Sweet Rolls are the perfect Sunday morning treat! With a bake right away or overnight option, you will love this recipe!

Homemade Strawberry Sweet Rolls on a purple plate with a silver fork

Breakfast is about the only meal of the day I can usually control myself to eat something “healthy” so I often avoid going out for pancakes, or making monkey bread or cinnamon rolls.

But every so often girls got to get down and durrrty with some homemade dough. Nothing in the world tastes as good as homemade bread. I seriously adore homemade bread. I just bough a french baguette pan so stay tuned!

Homemade Strawberry Sweet Rolls in a white ceramic dish on a black wire rack

Anyways it was Friday night so naturally, I decided I should make some overnight rolls to bring into work on Saturday morning. I absolutely love these cinnamon rolls but I wanted something different. So strawberry rolls it was.

homemade strawberry sweet roll opened up on a purple plate with a white background

Homemade Strawberry Sweet Rolls baked to golden brown in a ceramic dish on a wire rack

I won’t lie this recipe is time-consuming, letting the dough rise, but honestly, if you have some patience it is WELL WORTH THE WAIT! And can I say how great it is to spend time the night before so in the morning you just pop these babies into the oven, that’s my kind of homemade breakfast!!

Homemade Strawberry Sweet Rolls overhead shot on a purple plate with fork and a pink napkin

I took these to work and they went QUICK! Some people asked for two! The strawberries, brown sugar and corn starch cooked up nicely and made a delicious almost jam-like filling.

And you could just make a sweet glaze to go on top but I wanted the whole cream cheese frosting!! I mean come on, fresh-baked rolls and cream cheese frosting?! If you don’t love that we can’t be friends, just kidding! We can, but I will try to convince you 😉

If you love strawberries try my chocolate cake with cream and strawberries or strawberry cream cheese pie.

Homemade Strawberry Sweet Rolls overhead shot of the ceramic dish with the baked rolls inside on a wire rack

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Strawberry Sweet Rolls

Author: Elizabeth Waterson I Confessions of a Baking Queen
Prep Time: 30 Minutes
Cook Time: 30 Minutes
Total Time: 9 Hours 30 Minutes
Yield: 12 Strawberry Sweet Rolls
Category: Breakfast
Method: Baking
Cuisine: American

Description

Ingredients

Dough

1 package instant dry yeast
1 cup + 2 tbsp warm water (110F-115F)
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbsp butter, melted
4 1/2 tsp nonfat dry milk powder
1 tsp salt
3 – 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

Filling

2 tbsp butter, at room temp.
2 cups frozen strawberries
2 tbsp cornstarch
1 cup brown sugar

Frosting

6 oz cream cheese, softened
3 tbsp butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp lemon extract
2 cups powdered sugar
1/8 cup heavy whipping cream

Instructions

Dough

In the bowl of an electric mixer dissolve yeast in warm water. Add sugar, butter, milk powder, salt and two cups of flour. Mix until smooth. Slowly add in remaining flour to form a soft (not super sticky) dough. If using a dough hook, switch out the mixer hook and knead for 5-6 minutes in the electric mixer. I take the dough out of the mixer every minute or so and knead by hand. If not using a dough hook put the dough on a floured work surface and knead for 5-6 minutes.
Preheat oven to 200F and then turn the oven OFF. Spray a large bowl with cooking spray and place the dough inside. Place a clean kitchen towel on top of bowl and place bowl in warm but not a turned on oven.
Check dough after an hour it should have doubled in size, punch down. And place on a floured work surface. roll dough into a 16inchX 12inch rectangle. Grease a 9×13 baking pan and set aside.

Filling

Take the frozen strawberries directly out of the freezer and slice into small chunks, (small enough that when you roll the dough you can still keep a tight roll). In a medium bowl mix together the strawberry chunks, cornstarch and brown sugar.
Spread the butter on top of the dough then sprinkle the strawberry mixture evenly over the whole rectangle of dough. Roll the dough as tightly as possible. Then using a very sharp knife slice the dough into 12 even rolls. Place rolls into prepared pan, cover with plastic wrap and place in fridge overnight or let rise until doubled in size (30 ish minutes) and bake.
When you wake up take strawberry rolls out of the fridge and set on the counter to rise/thaw for 45 ish minutes. Preheat oven to 350F and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until golden brown.

Frosting

While baking beat cream cheese for 2 minutes in a large bowl. Add butter and beat for another 2 minutes. Pour in vanilla extract, heavy cream, and powdered sugar. Beat all together for 4 minutes. Slather on top of cinnamon rolls.
Once rolls are baked, let cool on a wire rack for at least 10 minutes before slathering cream cheese frosting on top.