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Ingredients
- Icing:
- 16 Rhodes™ Dinner Rolls, thawed (or use your own dough recipe)
- 3 medium size Granny Smith apples, peeled and chopped
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- Zest and juice from half a lemon (about 2 teaspoons of juice)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3-4 teaspoons water
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring
Preparation
Step 1
This recipe uses Rhodes frozen dough balls (thawed), filled with an apple/brown sugar/cinnamon mixture, sealed like a happy little package, and tossed into a baking dish together.
. (I halved the recipe, and I had enough dough to make two of these pull-apart loaves.)
Combine Granny Smith apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, pecans, and the juice and zest from half a lemon.
Flatten dough and add about a teaspoon of the apple mixture in the center.
Sprinkle with remaining apple/pecan mixture, loosely cover with greased plastic wrap, and let it rise until double (about an hour).
Preheat oven.
Pour the icing mixture over while bread is still warm.
Makes 1 loaf
Cut thawed rolls in half. Combine apples, sugar, nuts, cinnamon, and lemon juice and zest. Flatten each roll half into a 2-3-inch circle. Place 1 teaspoon apple mixture in center of each dough circle. Pinch edges together to seal, forming a ball. Place filled balls in a sprayed 9x5-inch loaf pan. Spoon remaining apple mixture evenly over the top. Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise until double. Remove wrap and bake at 350°F 40-45 minutes. Cover with foil last 10 minutes of baking to prevent over browning. Cool for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and place on wire rack to cool. Combine icing ingredients and drizzle over loaf.
Would you be able to make it and freeze it for awhile and then thaw and bake? Would it still work?
I have wondered that myself. I'm *pretty* sure it would work. Let me know if you try it! (I will probably try it when I make a couple of loaves this fall and will update the post then.)
These look absolutely amazing!!! I may just have to make it this weekend!
These look really good. Freida Loves Bread has a great Dinner Roll recipe that you can use in place of Rhodes Rolls if you like to make it all from scratch. Can't wait to eat some of these! Donna
Oh my goodness this looks AMAZING. My mouth is watering. Literally. Thanks for sharing! Now excuse me while I prance into the kitchen and make this recipe :)
I made these delectable babies a few days after I saw this post! I had some frozen rolls on hand so I just used 'em instead of making my own dough. I'm not sure what I did "wrong" but my bundles filled my 9x5 so full I thought, "This is gonna raise all over the place!" So I transferred all my bundles to a bundt cake pan. And they did raise like crazy in just 30 minutes. But when I served them I received a standing ovation from everyone... even my picky grandson! DELICIOUS! I will be making these again !
I made these delectable babies a few days after I saw this post! I had some frozen rolls on hand so I just used 'em instead of making my own dough. I'm not sure what I did "wrong" but my bundles filled my 9x5 so full I thought, "This is gonna raise all over the place!" So I transferred all my bundles to a bundt cake pan. And they did raise like crazy in just 30 minutes. But when I served them I received a standing ovation from everyone... even my picky grandson! DELICIOUS! I will be making these again !
I am making them right now. I followed the recipe to a tee and Mary is right. I'm using a loaf pan, but next time I will use a bundt pan. Also, I seem to have a lot of the apple mixture left.
I am sure it would work. I make pecan rolls and freeze one pan for later. I immediately freeze after assembly and before they rise. Take out of freezer and let thaw at room temp and rise (double in size)....bake as recipe indicates.