Absolutely delicious soft rolls filled with a delicious buttery apple pie filling and smothered in a vanilla icing. You will LOVE these Glazed Apple Cinnamon Soft Rolls
I have really begun to enjoy baking with yeast, in the past I have been a little wary of it, but it is actually a lovely way to spend time in the kitchen. You need a little time and a little patience. But the outcome in this case is absolutely worth it. The rising of the dough, creating this gorgeous marriage of flavours – whats not to love!
Apple & Cinnamon is such a lovely flavour. Our apple tree is bursting at the seems at the moment, we tend to garden by neglect. Only the fittest survive around here! Which is why we love it when the crops are great – no effort on our part! lol
I love this recipe so much I have created a Raspberry Lemon version, you will want to try that one too! A combination of frozen raspberries and lemon zest is a total winner. I would love to hear what other fillings you would try? Let me know in the comments below.
To make the dough is a lovely simple process. This is perfect to make on a day when the sun is shining through the window as this helps the dough to rise. There are two risings with this mixture, once when it is first made, then again after you have created the rolls with the filling.
You will need a food mixer, this just makes everything much easier – with a dough hook.
I have used my basic vanilla icing in this recipe, I know many think of cinnamon rolls and prepare a cream cheese topping, but I prefer the sweetness in contrast to the tangy hit of cream cheese. You can choose whatever you prefer.
This is one of those recipes you will want to have some space cleared on the bench so you can roll out the dough and create your scrolls, it makes a lovely big batch too enough to fill my roasting dish. Have you tried baking like this before?
I have several scrolls recipes, both savoury & sweet – check them out by clicking the title below
Raspberry Lemon Soft Rolls
Glazed Cinnamon Pinwheel Scones
2 Ingredient Savoury Scrolls
Hawaiian Pizza Scrolls
Chicken, Plum Sauce & Camembert Scrolls
The filling is just lovely, all the flavours of an apple pie, sweet apples cooked in butter, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon. Then spreading this on a cinnamon brown sugar base, rising again then baking. You finish this all off with a lovely vanilla icing glaze. I mean what is not to love!
A lovely calming way to spend a day, creating a delicious treat everyone will love. Plus you will likely get covered in flour so will feel like you have spent the day baking!
So onto the recipe, I cannot wait to hear what you think of this one, a firm favourite.
My recipe for Glazed Apple Cinnamon Soft Rolls
Glazed Apple Cinnamon Soft Rolls
Tasty soft scrolls filled with an apple pie filling and smothered in a vanilla glaze
Ingredients
DOUGH
- 1/2 Cup Warm Water
- 2 1/4 teaspoons Dried Yeast
- 60 Grams Butter
- 1/2 Cup White Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1 Cup Hot Water
- 4 1/2 Cups Plain White Flour
- 1 Egg, beaten
FILLING
- 40 Grams Butter, softened
- 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar, packed
APPLE PIE FILLING
- 4-5 Apples, peeled, cored and diced finely
- 1/3 Cup White Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Butter
- 2 teaspoons, Cinnamon, ground
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
ICING
- 2 Cups Icing Sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon Butter, melted, 5 grams
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
- Water
Instructions
- Prepare a stand mixer with a paddle attachment
- In a small bowl add 1/2 cup of warm water and the yeast, stir to combine and set aside in a warm spot while you prepare the next step
- Add to the mixer bowl the softened butter, sugar, salt and hot water and blend well, less than a minute
- Add to this 1 Cup of flour and combine until smooth
- Add the yeast mixture and mix well
- Add the beaten egg and combine until completely incorporated.
- Change to a hook attachment
- Add the remaining 3 1/2 cups of flour and mix for 3 minutes
- Generously flour the bench and tip the dough onto the bench, sprinkle flour on the top of the dough and your hands and begin to knead the dough. Add a little flour if needed if you feel it is too sticky.
- Knead until it is smooth and soft in your hands, just a few minutes
- Take a large bowl and add some cooking spray or lightly brush with oil, add the dough to this and cover with a tea towel
- Place the bowl in a warm place for 30 minutes or until the dough has doubled in size.
- Prepare a large bench area with a generous sprinkling of flour and prepare a 9in x 13 in (23x 35cm) roasting dish with baking paper, I spray the dish then this helps the baking paper stick better. You can make without baking paper but it makes it easier to lift out once baked.
- Tip the dough onto the bench and roll with a flour-dusted rolling pin to form a large rectangle, with the dough about 1cm thick.
- Brush or spread the softened butter over the dough, sprinkle over the brown sugar
- Heat a large sauce pan or frying pan over medium heat.
- Add the apples, sugar, butter, cinnamon and vanilla and stir until butter is melted and apples are fully covered in all of the ingredients.
- Reduce the heat and allow this to simmer gently, until apples are softened.
- Allow to cool slightly before using.
- Sprinkle this apple mixture over the dough evenly.
- With clean dry hands begin to roll up the dough from the long side, as gently and tightly as you can with the seam finishing underneath.
- With a very sharp knife or thread cut the roll into 2-3cm sized pieces. Place the pieces cut side up into the prepared pan
- Cover the pan with a tea towel and set aside in a warm spot for an hour until the dough has risen again, doubling in size.
- Preheat the oven to 175 C Bake (Conventional) and bake the rolls for 30 minutes, until lightly golden brown
- Remove from the oven and set aside while you prepare the icing
- In a medium bowl add the icing sugar, melted butter and vanilla essence, stir to combine
- Add a teaspoon of water at a time until you have the desired consistency, I like mine to be quite thick but runny so I can pour it over the rolls and spread with a knife.
- Serve warm, or set aside once cooled in an airtight container or you can freeze iced or uniced for another day.
- Enjoy!
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Happy Baking
Anna
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George Weir says
Can you make ths recipie dairy free
Elaine Smith says
I was worried that they wouldn’t turn out because I mixed it all by hand but they turned out beautifully. I added some sultanas to the apple mix. They were so good!
Natasha says
The dough is perfect. My only issue was too much apple mixture, somehow mine was atleast double what your picture showed and it oozed out. But overall, BEAUTIFUL taste and I’ll make them again.
Carmel Gulliver says
Hello Anna, just made these today……and was a bit worried as used Live Yeast but they turned out so good – I was able to share in our bubble thankfully as pretty sure we would’ve demolished the lot. Thank you.
Sarah says
These are so good!!!! Thank you for the recipe!
Hayley says
These were amazing! So delicious! I froze a few with the icing on, what’s the best way to defrost them? In the fridge?
justamumnz says
They should be ok to defrost on the bench ☺️
Joylene says
They look divine. Yeast is hard to get at the moment with all this COVID madness, but I would love to try these with apricots!
Belinda says
Hi is this fan or conventional oven temp?
justamumnz says
Conventional
Jess says
Could you use quince instead
justamumnz says
Yes, any filling you choose
Rachelle says
Do you use surebake yeast or just normal yeast?
justamumnz says
Instant sure bake ☺️
chefkreso says
Wow these CInnamon rolls look absolutely delicious! Love how you combined them with apples..
justamumnz says
Thank you, love using Apples in baking