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    Home » Bread

    Strawberry Sweet Rolls

    Published: Mar 5, 2014 · by Elizabeth Waterson · This post may contain affiliate links, which may pay me a small commission for my referral at no extra cost to you! Thank you for supporting Confessions of a Baking Queen!

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

    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 on top of a pink linen on a white wood background

    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 just baked in a white ceramic dish on a black wire rack on a white surface

    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 with a fork on a purple plate with a white background
    Homemade Strawberry Sweet Rolls baked to golden brown in a ceramic dish on a wire rack on a white surface

    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 on a white wood background

    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 on a white wood background

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    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 Rolls are the perfect Sunday morning treat!

    • Total Time: 9 Hours 30 Minutes
    • Yield: 12 Strawberry Sweet Rolls 1x

    Ingredients

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    Dough

    • 1 package instant dry yeast
    • 1 cup + 2 tablespoon warm water (110F-115F)
    • ¼ cup sugar
    • 2 tbsp butter, melted
    • 4 ½ tsp nonfat dry milk powder
    • 1 tsp salt
    • 3 - 3 ¼ 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
    • ½ tsp lemon extract
    • 2 cups powdered sugar
    • ⅛ cup heavy whipping cream

    Instructions

    Dough

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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 9x13 baking pan and set aside.

    Filling

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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

    1. 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.
    2. Once rolls are baked, let cool on a wire rack for at least 10 minutes before slathering cream cheese frosting on top.

    Equipment

    9X13 fat daddios pan

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    Notes

    *total time includes overnight chill time

    *you can make these the day of and it would take 2 Hours 30 Minutes

    • Author: Elizabeth Waterson I Confessions of a Baking Queen
    • Prep Time: 30 Minutes
    • Cook Time: 30 Minutes
    • Category: Breakfast
    • Method: Baking
    • Cuisine: American

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    1. Laura @ Laura's Culinary Adventures says

      March 05, 2014 at 7:53 am

      Fabulous sweet rolls! I have sweet tooth whatever time of day it is, and these delicious rolls would scratch my morning sweet tooth! Great recipe!

      Reply
    2. Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel says

      March 05, 2014 at 8:09 am

      Yezzzzzzz please! I really need to get over my irrational fear of yeast and make these. Because dude, face plant.

      Reply
    3. Ashley says

      March 05, 2014 at 1:29 pm

      Umm strawberry rolls are a genius idea! I love regular cinnamon rolls but strawberry?? Yes yes yes!

      Reply
    4. dina says

      March 06, 2014 at 6:37 am

      they look delicious!

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    5. Nicole @ Young, Broke and Hungry says

      March 06, 2014 at 10:49 am

      Awesome idea using strawberries! Love these sweet rolls.

      Reply
      • Elizabeth says

        March 07, 2014 at 6:47 pm

        Thanks Nicole!

        Reply
    6. Johlene says

      March 07, 2014 at 6:25 am

      These are beautiful sweet rolls, I just love how they look!!! I´ve made them with dried cranberries & also pistachios but will definitely try the fresh route next time.. specially since it´s strawberry season..YUM!!
      Happy weekend, dont work too hard!! Xx

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      • Elizabeth says

        March 07, 2014 at 6:46 pm

        Wow that sounds a fabulous combo!!

        Reply
    7. miss messy says

      March 07, 2014 at 4:33 pm

      I adore anything strawberries and these look unreal 🙂 these would go so quickly at my work!

      Reply
      • Elizabeth says

        March 07, 2014 at 6:45 pm

        They did at my work!! LOl

        Reply
    8. Trish - Mom On Timeout says

      March 10, 2014 at 10:43 am

      I am a total sucker for strawberry 🙂 These rolls look perfectly delicious! Pinned!

      Reply

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