Oh. These. Just. Completed. Me. With Mother’s Day coming up….I’m pretty sure these will complete every mum out there too.
Soft and fluffy pillows of sweet dough smothered with a beautiful strawberry syrup, rolled up and covered in the most perfect cream cheese/buttermilk frosting.
And the best part? No yeast. No waiting around. No rising time. No heart attacks and elevated stress levels watching your dough like a hawk. No covering and refrigerating. Just quick to make and melt-in-your-mouth strawberries and cream rolls. I have a small confession. Okay, maybe a big one. I was spooning this strawberry syrup-like-nectar out of this pan as if my life depended on it. Extremely addictive I.couldn’t.stop. I’m going to start off my sharing some tips I learnt while testing these out once…okay maybe three times….before I got it. The dough is moist. It’s beautifully moist which gives it that melt-in-your-mouth result. So when rolling it out, keep dusting small amounts of flour over it. And when rolling it up with the strawberry syrup….it helps to use the blunt edge of a knife to scrape it up from the bench while licking your syrup covered fingers…..sssshhh. And that’s it. That’s about as tricky as it gets. Apart from the fact the your kitchen will start smelling like a bakery…it’s so hard keeping that oven door closed. I mean…just look at those rolls! Only to drizzle them in a lemon-scented cream cheese glaze spiked with buttermilk. Cooks Illustrated…how I love you. It’s hard to believe there’s no yeast in them.
How did this happen? Well…I was thinking of Mother’s Day, and how much I miss Strawberry Scrolls. But at the same time…I wanted Cinnamon Rolls. You know…the usual voices in my head arguing between who wants what. So…I mixed them both and got this.
Reserving half of the strawberry syrup to drizzle over the top. Because, like I said, it’s addictive.
And it was either drizzle…or dip and drench and drown my buns. I went for drizzle. I can only imagine waking up to these first thing in the morning…fresh out of the oven. On Mother’s Day. And now you can too! Put the family to work.
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