Strawberry Candy Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting!

Bursting with contemporary strawberries in every pillow smooth chew, these simple strawberry candy rolls are excellent for a flowery breakfast or brunch!

Why you’ll love strawberry candy rolls

The recipe is tremendous fast, with simply 4 elements + do-it-yourself cream cheese frosting!
No yeast, no stand mixer, and no ready hours for the dough to rise.
There’s simply one thing in regards to the vibrant pink shade and impossibly fluffy texture of those hot-from-the-oven strawberry buns that may make anybody who tries them fall in love.
Serve a batch to your loved ones for Mom’s Day brunch or any time you end up with an abundance of ripe summer time strawberries. The candy strawberry rolls are certain to impress!

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Step-by-step recipe video

Key elements

Strawberries – The recipe is full of over a cup of both contemporary or frozen strawberries. If utilizing frozen, remember to totally thaw the berries and blot away all extra liquid earlier than dicing.

Dough – Utilizing pizza dough (packaged or do-it-yourself) is one in every of my favourite breakfast candy roll shortcuts, as a result of there’s no have to proof the yeast or knead the dough and look ahead to a number of rises. The entire exhausting work has been carried out for you forward of time.

Search for refrigerated pizza dough within the ready meals part of many grocery shops, or it’s possible you’ll swap it out for a fundamental bread dough or sourdough as an alternative. Alternatively, use the dough out of your favourite cinnamon roll recipe or these Vegan Cinnamon Rolls.

For gluten free strawberry rolls, purchase a gluten free pizza dough or make your individual from scratch.

Sugar – Any granulated white or brown sugar will work. I like unrefined uncooked cane sugar, which provides a refined caramel taste. To arrange added sugar free candy rolls, select an all objective sweetener with out sugar, like xylitol or granulated monk fruit.

Cornstarch – Stirring a tablespoon of cornstarch or two tablespoons of flour in with the berries is necessary as a result of it helps to thicken the filling so it doesn’t simply ooze out when baking.

Coconut oil – Three tablespoons of coconut oil or butter will add richness and a buttery style. For coronary heart wholesome oil free rolls, use softened almond butter or cashew butter as an alternative.

Cinnamon (non-compulsory) – I like to recommend a fourth teaspoon of floor cinnamon within the filling for added depth of taste.

Fresh Strawberry Sweet Rolls For Dessert

Cream cheese frosting elements

You’ll be able to actually glaze these rolls with something you want, resembling conventional buttercream, retailer purchased vanilla frosting, or a easy glaze.

I’ve included my very own traditional cream cheese icing recipe beneath, as a result of it’s my private favourite. In the event you select this frosting choice, right here is every little thing you might want to make it.

Cream cheese – The recipe requires 4 ounces of full fats cream cheese or vegan cream cheese. I’ve not tried substituting low fats cream cheese or Greek yogurt, however be at liberty to experiment.

Powdered sweetener – The frosting makes use of normal confectioner’s sugar, additionally known as powdered sugar or icing sugar. Or use an equal quantity of any powdered sweetener with out sugar that measures like powdered sugar.

It’s also possible to make your individual powdered sugar by mixing white, coconut, or unrefined date sugar in a blender or meals processor till high-quality and powdery.

Milk of selection – Add one tablespoon milk or dairy free milk, or extra as desired to skinny out the glaze to your most popular texture. As a enjoyable taste spin, sub half of the milk for brewed espresso, chai tea, or espresso.

Vanilla – I prefer to mix in half a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract to go with the pure sweetness of the strawberries.

Tips on how to make do-it-yourself strawberry candy rolls

Collect your whole elements forward of time, and skim by way of the recipe directions.
Take out the pizza dough from the fridge and let it come to room temperature.
Preheat the oven to 350° Fahrenheit or 176° Celsius.
In the meantime, use a rolling pin to roll out the pizza dough on a nonstick floured floor. You need to roll it out into as skinny of a rectangle as doable, below an eighth of an inch in thickness. A thinly rolled dough gives you extra gooey strawberry filling in every chew.
Unfold softened butter or oil evenly over the complete floor of the oblong dough.
Add the diced strawberries, sugar, cornstarch, and non-compulsory cinnamon to a medium mixing bowl, and stir till effectively mixed.
Now unfold the filling evenly on high of the dough, going virtually all the best way to the edges.
Tightly roll up the dough into a protracted log form. Then use a pointy knife or pizza cutter to chop skinny strips. It’s okay if a few of the berry liquid seeps out throughout this course of.
Organize the unbaked strawberry pastries in an eight inch baking pan, and place the pan on the middle rack of the preheated oven.
Bake 35 minutes or till smooth and frivolously golden in shade, with bubbly strawberry filling.

Cream cheese frosted strawberry rolls

To make the simple cream cheese frosting, first let cream cheese soften to room temperature.

Use hand beaters or a stand mixer to whip the cream cheese and vanilla extract, slowly mixing within the powdered sugar a couple of half cup at a time.

If frosting is just too thick, beat in a tablespoon of milk or extra as wanted.

For the gooiest and finest outcomes, ice the rolls whereas they’re nonetheless heat. This permits the frosting to deliciously soften into the new strawberry candy rolls.

Retailer leftover glazed rolls in a lined container within the fridge for as much as 5 days, and reheat earlier than having fun with.

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Katie’s favourite recipe variations

Strawberry Lemon Rolls: Observe the bottom recipe beneath, stirring the zest of 1 lemon into the cream cheese frosting. Swap out the milk for lemon juice to make a fast lemon glaze. This variation can be pretty with lime or orange and orange zest.

Chocolate Chip Strawberry Rolls: Sprinkle a handful of mini chocolate chips or white chocolate chips onto the rolled out dough after including the strawberry filling.

Strawberry Cinnamon Rolls: Improve the cinnamon within the recipe to 1 tablespoon.

Raspberry Candy Rolls: As a substitute of diced strawberries, use an equal quantity of chopped contemporary raspberries and even raspberry jam. You are able to do different fruit as effectively, resembling blackberries, peaches, cherries, or blueberries.

Strawberry Banana Rolls: Change as much as half of the strawberries with diced bananas. Sprinkle finely chopped walnuts or pecans over the filling earlier than rolling up the dough.

Easy Strawberry Sweet Rolls + Cream Cheese Icing

The recipe was tailored from my Strawberry Bread and these Straightforward Cinnamon Rolls.

1. Let pizza dough come to room temperature, then preheat the oven to 350° Fahrenheit (176° Celsius).
2. On a nonstick floured floor, roll out the dough right into a rectangle below 1/eighth of an inch thick.
3. Unfold softened butter or oil evenly over the rectangle.
4. In a medium bowl, stir the strawberries, sugar, cornstarch, and non-compulsory cinnamon till effectively combined.
5. Unfold this strawberry filling excessive of the pizza dough.
6. Tightly roll the dough into a protracted log form, then use a knife or pizza cutter to slice skinny strips. Don’t worry if a few of the strawberry liquid seeps out.
7. Organize the rolls in an 8 inch pan. Bake 35 minutes on the middle rack of the oven, till dough is totally cooked and frivolously golden and filling is bubbly.
8. Deliver the cream cheese to room temperature, then use a stand mixer or hand beaters to whip cream cheese, vanilla, and about half a cup of powdered sugar till fluffy.
9. Slowly beat within the remaining powdered sugar. If glaze is just too thick, add a tablespoon of milk or extra as desired to skinny it out.
10. Frost the strawberry candy rolls whereas they’re nonetheless heat, so the icing melts into the highest.