The Best Caramel Rolls | Julie Blanner

These smooth, moist, caramel rolls are topped with creamy caramel frosting – so good you’d by no means know they begin from a can of crescent sheets!

Fast and straightforward to make, these rolls are excellent for a lazy weekend brunch for a crowd!

When you solely make one recipe of mine this month, strive these caramel rolls! They’re so unimaginable, addicting and can have everybody considering you spent hours within the kitchen making them. Thankfully, due to a shortcut, you gained’t!

You can also make this easyrecipe in simply 10 minutes hands-on time. You’ll be able to even make them forward!

They’re topped with probably the most superb Caramel Icing that makes them out of this world! These are true, smooth, soften in your mouth caramel rolls (not the sticky type like Pecan Rolls, although I like these, too!)

They’re moist and flaky and drenched in probably the most delectable caramel frosting. 

Caramel Rolls

One of many many issues I like about this recipe is which you could serve them within the dish you bake them in, relatively than on a separate platter.

When you’re like me, you’ll be scooping up each final drip to smother your roll. You’d by no means know they weren’t constructed from scratch!

Elements and Substitutions

For the Rolls

• Crescent Dough – Skip making your personal dough! Use retailer purchased crescent dough sheets – it’s also possible to use canned crescent rolls, they’re the identical product however perforated for making the normal rolls as a substitute of a sheet.
• Butter – Use unsalted butter for this recipe. The butter must be melted to brush onto the dough.
• Brown Sugar – Brown sugar offers these rolls an exquisite caramel taste.

For the Caramel Frosting

• Butter – It’s greatest to make use of unsalted butter on this recipe, when you use salted, cut back the quantity of added salt used. Discover ways to soften butter rapidly.
• Brown Sugar – Use brown sugar relatively than white on this recipe. Brown sugar comprises molasses which helps to create that lovely caramel taste.
• Salt – Salt brings out the sweetness and caramel taste on this icing. Scale back the quantity barely if you’re utilizing salted butter.
• Powdered Sugar – Also called confectioners sugar. This sugar could be very nice and combines properly to create a fluffy and lightweight icing. Discover ways to make powdered sugar when you don’t have any readily available.
• Milk – I take advantage of 2% milk on this recipe and it helps to make the frosting creamy, however you need to use no matter you could have readily available.
• Vanilla – Use pure relatively than imitation vanilla extract when you can. It’s very easy to make your personal vanilla extract!

Methods to Make

An summary, go to the printable recipe card for full substances and directions.

1. Prep – Preheat oven as directed and grease pan.
2. Roll crescent dough onto parchment paper. 
3. Fill – Brush with butter and sprinkle with brown sugar.
4. Roll every sheet right into a log, slicing as directed.
5. Bake – Place in ready baking dish. Bake.
6. Ice – Mix icing substances till clean. Pour on prime of caramel rolls.

Variations

• You’ll be able to prime these caramel rolls with nuts, toffee bits or chocolate chips when you like!

Make Forward

These caramel rolls are a simple breakfast or brunch deal with, and they’re excellent if you’re serving a crowd. You’ll be able to even make them forward of time and bake simply earlier than serving, however they arrive collectively so rapidly, you don’t should!

• You can also make these rolls the night time earlier than and canopy them with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
• Then, simply pop them into the pre heated oven earlier than serving.

Serving Ideas

After all the caramel icing is superb on these – however you’ll be able to combine them up with different toppings.

Methods to Retailer

• Room Temperature – Retailer at room temperature in an hermetic container as much as 2 days.
• Refrigerate – Retailer in an hermetic container as much as 5 days.
• Freeze – You too can freeze cinnamon rolls, storing in an hermetic container coated in plastic wrap to keep away from any freezer odor as much as 3 months.

To Reheat

Reheat these caramel rolls individually within the microwave for 20 seconds or within the casserole dish in a preheated oven at 350 levels for five minutes.