Orange Rolls

I know, I know, I've had a busy weekend. There's just too many recipes I want to try. A few weeks ago, Aliya brought in an orange roll for me to try. It was really good so I of course wanted to try making them myself. So she directed me to the website where she found the recipe (www.ourbestbites.com.) I've been holding on to it for a little while, but since I bought buttermilk this week I knew this was the day to make them. They're nice and sweet and a nice change from cinnamon rolls. They're somehow a little lighter. I liked that they're no-rise as I've never played with yeast before. Someday... Also, I'm not enamored with cottage cheese so I substituted the cottage cheese for some whole milk ricotta, and it worked just fine.


Here they are fresh out of the oven with the glaze poured over them. mmm




And here's one on it's own. The dough is nice and light and fluffy.


And of course the recipe:

No Yeast Sweet Rolls
adapted from Fine Cooking

For the dough:
3/4 cup cottage cheese (4% milk fat) (I used whole milk ricotta cheese)
1/3 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup granulated sugar
4 Tbs real butter, melted
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
9 oz. (2 cups) flour; more for rolling
1 Tbs. baking powder
1/2 tsp. table salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda

Orange Roll Filling:
4T butter, softened
1/2 C sugar
zest from one orange


Orange Roll Glaze:
2/3 C powdered sugar
1 T melted butter
2 T Orange juice

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

In a food processor, combine the cottage cheese, buttermilk, sugar, melted butter, and vanilla.

Process until smooth, about 10 seconds. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda and pulse in short bursts just until the dough clumps together (don’t over-process). The dough will be very soft, probably softer than you're used to. Don't add anymore flour! Scrape the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead a few times just until smooth.
* Since I don't really like needing to clean out the food processor, I just used my hand mixer for all of this and it all came together nicely.

Roll the dough into a rectangle, about 12x15 inches.
*The site didn't really explain how to mix together the filling, just said to put it on. So I mixed the softened butter, sugar, and orange zest in a bowl then sprinkled it on top of the rolled out dough. Then roll it all up jelly roll fashion then slice it, um about an inch and a half each? Then place them in a ceramic pie plate and bake for 20-25 minutes.
When they're all golden brown take them out of the oven and mix together the glaze then pour it over the warm rolls. Serve and enjoy!