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Made these this morning for my family. A unanimous hit! So delicious! Making these this fall for sure.
Liesl
I blinked and it was Monday.
I’m a little sad.
This weekend was filled with some wonderful things, including babysitting 30 kids on a Friday night, and maybe wonderful isn’t the right word for that, but whatever, hosting a Matilda movie night with my girls, and filling our lives to the brim with these heavenly caramel rolls. Somehow treadmills and green veggies and rational portion sizes didn’t make their way into the weekend mix, but Mondays are good for that thing called a fresh start. On second thought, so are Tuesdays.
Before you run into the kitchen to get these babies started, there’s one thing that you need to know. It’s going to take some sweat. Oh, wait, you live in a normal climate? Ok then. It’s just going to take some time.
It’s time well spent, my friends. Well. Spent.
First you’re going to let the dough rise. It’s going to smell amazing and feel even more amazing in your hands and you’re going to ask yourself why you don’t do this more often.
Then you’re going to roll it out
and fill it with sweet caramel apple filling
and drown your soft, fluffy rolls in more caramel apple sauce.
And then,
This.
Is going in your mouth.
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Caramel Rolls with Apples and Walnuts
- Total Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
- Yield: 15 1x
Description
These homemade caramel rolls are soft and fluffy and loaded with sweet, sticky apples and walnuts. So perfect for a Saturday breakfast!
Ingredients
- 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (more or less depending on dough consistency)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 1/4 teaspoons dry active yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk, lukewarm
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
- 3 apples, peeled, cored, and finely diced
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix 2 cups of the flour, sugar, yeast, and salt. Add the lukewarm milk, egg, and butter. Mix with a bread mixing attachment until moist ingredients are incorporated and mixture is beginning to clump together. Scrape down the sides and add the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, mixing again until dough is sticking together. Use your hands to knead the dough together – it should be workable and have some elasticity.
- Place the dough in a large buttered or greased bowl and cover it with plastic wrap. Let rest in a warm spot for one hour. When dough has rested for one hour and risen to about double it’s original size, punch it down and fold the corners back into the middle, making it a compact ball once again. Cover again, with corner side down, and let rest for 30 minutes.
- While dough is rising, saute the apples, butter, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla together in a saucepan over low heat. Let the mixture gently simmer together for about 10-15 minutes, until apples are tender and mixture has thickened slightly. Add chopped walnuts and set aside.
- Roll the dough into a 9×15 rectangle. Pour 1/3 of the apple mixture onto the dough and spread it evenly. Starting at the wide end, roll up the dough with the apple mixture inside. When the dough has been rolled up, use a large knife to cut the dough into 12-15 spiraled rolls and place each of them in a large buttered ovenproof skillet. Leave some room between each roll for the dough to rise.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover the rolls and let rise again for 30 minutes. When risen, pour 1/3 of apple mixture over the top. Bake for 15-25 minutes, or until lightly browned and baked through. Pour remaining 1/3 of sauce over the hot rolls before serving.
Notes
To make these ahead of time, go through all the steps, stopping after you cut the rolls and place them in the pan. Cover them and store in the fridge. Leave some extra time for them to come back to room temperature and rise again on the day that you want to bake them (it took me at least 2 hours to get them warm and risen again after refrigerating).
As you make the dough, adjust the consistency with a tablespoon of flour to thicken or a tablespoon of milk to soften if necessary.
You can also use a 9×13 baking dish.
- Prep Time: 2 hours
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: caramel rolls, apple caramel rolls, walnut caramel rolls
PS. Thank you Dulce Dough for helping me be a successful baker. You rock.
PSS. Wanna take 15 seconds to vote for Chicken Tamale Pie so I can give away a free vacation?
And you’re like, come on. Just gimme the soft white bread and caramel sauce.
Fair enough.
This is just what I need. If I start now I can have it for lunch!!! YUM.
Oh boy…heaven.
Ahhmazing! These rolls looks heavenly!
They look amazing… even more amazing you whipped these up living abroad! Did you have a hard time finding some of those ingredients over there?
Apples are sometimes in short supply… I only really had one variety to choose from… but other than that it was ok!
I definitely want that in my mouth. I love the apples in it! Wonderful!
Wonderful fall treat! I guess the “chocolate cake scene” in Matilda is a bit too yucky for you to have made something chocolatey 😉
OMG, yes.
THIS looks divine! About to start drooling right now…
I just did this and it is amazing!! I wish I can send you a picture! Thank you so much for the recipe. I wanted one where I make my own dough vs. Buying it frozen from a grocery chain. I used Cortland apples (upstate NY apples) and it is delicious!!
Wow that looks like a perfect christmas morning recipe!.:.i know its a little early to think of that but i cant help it!!
It’s never too early to be thinking about Christmas. 😉
Amazing! I could seriously eat the entire batch!
Your rolls look amazing! I am honored that you were inspired by my recipe!
These are simply amazing!
It’s so cool that you can make these in a pot! These look fabulous with the caramel and apples. Now that it’s fall, treats like these rolls are what I’m craving!
Wow, those look positively decadent! Looks like a perfect fall brunch treat.
Wow, you make these look so easy. They look amazing!
I think I just swooned!
Oh boy do I really have to wait until the weekend?
Love the new affiliate links by the way, just updated mine!
The most PERFECT caramel rolls I’ve ever laid eyes on. And my grandmother’s are legendary! Lindsay – you are amazing. 🙂
Oh boy. I made caramel apple cinnamon rolls a week or two ago and they’re AMAZING! The only problem I have is that I made so many at once, got sick, and now I have a cinnamon roll aversion. And I didn’t get pictures. Wah! But these, these look awesome. 🙂
Oh no! I feel bad but I’m smiling. 🙂 Oh, the food blogger’s dilemmas.
WOW!!! This looks so good! 🙂
how did I miss this post? Just saw it on FG but maybe it never made it into my Reader? The important thing is I saw it now, and wow, what rolls! they look amazing, Lindsay!
Thanks Averie! Not sure about the reader thing but I’m glad you saw it now! 😉
These caramel rolls look so delicious! I wish I had them for my breakfast tomorrow.
I can’t wait to try this recipe! These look like the best thing ever.
I never let yeast scare me from trying a recipe. All that kneading is just cheap therapy in my mind. My hubby prefers frosted rolls, but caramel owns me!
Made these rolls this weekend with apples fresh from the farmer’s market. They were divine!
I simply can’t resist rolls smothering in caramel and nuts. I just can’t. And these have to be the most tempting rolls with the most perfect balance of nuts and caramel to dough… Love these! I’m featuring this post in today’s Food Fetish Friday (with a link-back and attribution as always). Thanks for continuing to inspire me with your creations…