How To Make Homemade Orange Rolls

I love orange rolls.  Yeah, cinnamon rolls are good, but I love the different dimension of flavor that the orange gives.  My hubby also love orange rolls, so I really wanted to make some for him--homemade.  Pilsbury are great, but there's something about HOMEMADE that just makes them that much better.  I got on my computer and googled "homemade orange rolls".  A ton of orange roll recipes popped up in the google search, but none of them were exactly what I had in mind.  So, after looking at a bazillion different recipes, and not finding exactly what I had in mind, I decided to try to create my own.  

Step 1 The Dough

1 cup whole milk
3 T. oil
1/2 cup sugar
2 heaping t. rapid-rise yeast
1 egg
1 t salt
3 1/2 cups of flour
Nonstick spray

Heat milk,  oil and sugar in the microwave for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes--just until the milk is warmed.  Sprinkle 2 heaping teaspoons of rapid-rise yeast into the mixture and stir around.  This goes into a stand mixer with the bread dough attachment, along with the egg, salt and 1 cup of flour.  Mix for 2-3 minutes on low, stopping intermittently to scrape down the sides of the bowl.  Once it is well mixed, add the remaining flour.  Mix well on low until the dough is pulling away from the sides and forming a ball.  {This may require slightly more flour.  Add it in Tablespoons until this occurs.}  
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Preheat oven to 170*F.  As soon as it reaches temperature, turn the oven off. Flour a pastry cloth and knead the dough until formed into a ball.  Place the ball of dough in a large bowl that has been sprayed with nonstick spray.  Cover it with plastic wrap.  Place it in the oven {off} for 2 hours.  It should now be doubled in size.
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Spread it out onto a floured pastry cloth and roll it out to about 1/4" thick. 
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Comments

[gisman]

Looks very delicious and am definitely going to try them!

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Do delicious! I love the look of these orange rolls! So beautifully done.

[jessyratfink]

These look so good. :D