Shortcut Orange Rolls
These easy orange rolls start with store-bought crescent roll dough and include a simple filling and citrus icing. I love them for special occasions like birthdays or weekend brunch and I always make them for Christmas morning!
Ingredients
Dough
- 3 tubes crescent roll dough I use Original Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
Filling
- 6 tablespoons butter softened to room temperature
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- zest of one orange
Orange Icing
- 1¼ cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- zest of one orange
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease the bottom and sides of a 9x13 baking dish. (I use an avocado oil spray.)
- Flour the surface of a large cutting board to prevent the dough from sticking to it. Open and unroll one tube of crescent roll dough on the floured cutting board. You should see triangles that are connected by dotted lines. Pinch the dough together where the dotted lines are (to close them) so that you have one long rectangle of crescent roll dough. Flip and pinch the dotted lines on the other side too.
- With a knife spread 2 tablespoons of softened butter evenly on top of the dough.
- Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar evenly on top of the buttered dough.
- Zest one third of an orange on top of your dough.
- Fold the rectangle of dough in half, from left to right.
- Now roll the dough from top to bottom to create a log.
- We're going to quarter this dough. Slice the log of dough down the middle. Then slice each half in half so you have four orange rolls. Place the four orange rolls in the prepared baking dish.
- Repeat steps 2 through 8 with the two remaining crescent roll tubes. You'll have 12 orange rolls in the baking dish when you're done.
- Bake orange rolls for 25 to 30 minutes, until tops are golden. 30 minutes is the perfect cooking time in my oven.
- While rolls are baking, stir together powdered sugar, 3 tablespoons of orange juice, and the zest of one whole orange in a bowl until smooth.
- After baking, remove the baking dish from the oven and let the rolls sit for 5 to 10 minutes to start to cool (they won't cool completely). Then pour the icing over top of the warm orange rolls and serve.
