Orange cream cheese frosting – how can you miss?
Grandma’s Orange Rolls with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
Orange cream cheese frosting – how can you miss?
Ingredients
Rolls:
- 1 .25 ounce package active dry yeast
- ¼ cup warm water 105 – 115 degrees F; 40 – 45 degrees C
- ¾ cup warm orange juice 105 – 115 degrees F; 40 – 45 degrees C
- ¼ cup warm milk 105 – 115 degrees F; 40 – 45 degrees C
- ¼ cup shortening
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 ¾ cups all-purpose flour or as needed
Filling:
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter softened
- 2 tablespoons orange zest
Frosting:
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- ½ 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
- 3 tablespoons butter softened
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 2 teaspoons orange zest
Instructions
- Dissolve yeast in warm water and warm orange juice in a bowl. Let stand until yeast softens and begins to form a creamy foam, about 5 minutes.
- Beat warm milk, shortening, 1/4 cup white sugar, egg, and salt together in a separate bowl. Stir yeast mixture into milk mixture. Add enough flour to mixture to create a soft dough. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6 to 8 minutes.
- Grease a large bowl and two 11x7x2-inch baking sheets.
- Place dough in the greased bowl and turn dough to coat all sides. Cover bowl with plastic wrap or a clean towel and let rise in a warm place until dough is doubled in size, about 1 hour.
- Punch dough down and divide in half. Roll each half on a lightly floured surface creating two 15×10-inch rectangles.
- Mix sugar, softened butter, and orange zest in a bowl until filling is smooth. Spread half of the filling onto each dough rectangle. Roll each rectangle around the filling, jelly roll-style, starting with the long end creating a log. Cut each log into 15 rolls.
- Arrange rolls on the prepared baking sheets. Cover baking sheets with plastic wrap and let rolls rise until doubled in size, about 45 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Remove plastic wrap from baking sheets.
- Bake rolls in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Beat confectioners’ sugar, cream cheese, softened butter, orange juice, and orange zest in a bowl until frosting is smooth. Spread frosting on the warm rolls.
