Cherry Sweet Rolls

 Cherry Sweet Rolls

Ingredients

• ¼ ounce active dry yeast (1 package)
• 1 cup milk warm
• ½ cup sugar granulated
• ⅓ cup butter unsalted
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 21 ounce cherry pie filling (1 can), blended up so there aren’t huge cherry chunks

Cream Cheese Icing

• 6 tablespoons butter unsalted, softened, or margarine
• 1½ cups powdered sugar also known as icing sugar, or confectioners sugar
• ¼ cup cream cheese at room temperature
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ⅛ teaspoon salt

Instructions

1.                   Bloom the yeast. Pour the lukewarm milk into a small bowl and mix in a teaspoon of the sugar from the dough. Then sprinkle the yeast over the milk and let it set for about 20 seconds before gently stirring it once or twice to fully dissolve. Now, leave it alone to sit for about 5 to 10 minutes until it gets foamy and begins to smell yeasty.

2.                   Make the dough. Add the remaining sugar, unsalted butter, salt, eggs, and all-purpose flour to the bowl of your stand mixer and then mix until well combined. Now, pour the bloomed yeast milk mixture over the flour mixture and fully incorporate all the ingredients together using the dough hook.

3.                   Let the dough rise. Transfer the dough to an oiled bowl and cover it with plastic wrap or a clean kitchen towel. Then put it in a warm place to let it rise for about 1 hour or until the dough has doubled in size.

4.                   Assemble the rolls. Once the dough has doubled in size, place it on a lightly floured surface and roll it out until it is about 16 inches long by 12 inches wide.

5.                   Spread with pie filling. Then spread your favorite cherry pie filling evenly over the dough making sure to cover the entire surface. Now, working carefully, from the long edge, roll the dough down to the bottom of the other edge. It should look like a long swirled log when you are done rolling. Then cut the rolled dough into 1¾-inch slices and place them on a lightly greased baking pan.

6.                   Let the rolls rise. Cover the rolls on a cookie sheet covered in parchment paper with a clean kitchen towel and leave them to rise for about 30 minutes or until doubled in size.

7.                   Bake the cherry rolls. Bake the rolls in a preheated 350℉ oven for 20 minutes or until light golden brown. Baking time can vary, so be sure to check them at 15 minutes and it could take up to 25 minutes. Every oven is different.

8.                   Make the icing. While the cherry rolls are baking in the oven make the cream cheese frosting by adding all the icing ingredients to a large bowl and beating them together with an electric mixer until smooth and fluffy.

9.                   Top the cherry rolls with icing. When the cherry buns are done baking, generously spread them with the prepared icing and enjoy.