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Cranberry Sweet Rolls

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Start your day with Cranberry Sweet Rolls! This breakfast bun features a soft lemon dough that is paired with homemade cranberry jam.

Start your day with Cranberry Sweet Rolls! This breakfast bun features a sweet lemon roll that is swirled with homemade cranberry jam.

Start your day with Cranberry Sweet Rolls! This breakfast bun features a soft lemon dough that is paired with homemade cranberry jam.

Christmas morning prep: Set morning buns out to rise. Prepare breakfast casserole. Leave Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies out for Santa.

Christmas morning: run down to see what Santa brought, devour breakfast, then pass out (depending on how sweet the Christmas punch is!) 

Start your day with Cranberry Sweet Rolls! This breakfast bun features a sweet lemon roll that is swirled with homemade cranberry jam.

For years, our Christmas breakfasts included Williams-Sonoma breakfast pastries. Don’t get me wrong, I loved them. But as a baker, I longed to make my family homemade pastries for Christmas morning.

Just last year, my mom handed over the reigns and let me make the sweet breakfast treat. I opted for Sticky Buns (a near disaster, story for another day!)

Start your day with Cranberry Sweet Rolls! This breakfast bun features a sweet lemon roll that is swirled with homemade cranberry jam.

This year I think these Cranberry Sweet Rolls would make a perfect addition to anyone’s holiday celebration.

They feature a sweet lemon roll with swirls of homemade cranberry jam throughout. & they’re really not that hard to make.

Cranberry Jam

For extra guidance shaping the rolls, be sure to check out Barbara Bakes‘ post for step-by-step photos on a similar bun.

Cape Cod Select Premium Frozen Cranberries

I used Cape Cod Select Premium Frozen Cranberries and am submitting this recipe to their Blogger Recipe Challenge. Not only were these cranberries perfect for jam, but they’re also excellent for my favorite holiday smoothie – Cranberry Orange! Be sure to follow them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest! Also, find a location near you!

Start your day with Cranberry Sweet Rolls! This breakfast bun features a sweet lemon roll that is swirled with homemade cranberry jam.

Happy Holidays, everyone! Hope you have so much fun 🙂

Start your day with Cranberry Sweet Rolls! This breakfast bun features a sweet lemon roll that is swirled with homemade cranberry jam.

Do you have special holiday breakfast traditions?

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Cranberry Sweet Rolls

Ingredients

    Jam:
  • 8 oz Cape Cod Select Premium Frozen Cranberries
  • 1/3 cup maple syrup
  • 1/3 cup water
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
    • Rolls:
  • 2.25 tsp yeast
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/4 cup warm water
  • 6 tbsp sugar
  • 1/2 cup full fat coconut milk, warmed
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 6 tbsp canola oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 cups all purpose flour, more as needed
  • Zest of 2 lemons

Instructions

    Jam:
  1. In medium saucepan over medium heat, combine cranberries, maple syrup and water. Once mixture begins to boil, add cinnamon stick and turn mixture down to medium low. Continue to cook 10 minutes or until mixture has thickened. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract. Once, cooled remove cinnamon stick and store in airtight container in refrigerator.
    2. Rolls:
  2. Dissolve yeast with 1 tsp sugar and water. Let sit a few minutes.
  3. Add 6 tbsp sugar, milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, oil, salt and two cups of flour. Stir for one minute.
  4. Then add rest of flour in 1/2 cup increments. Stir until a soft dough forms. Add a little extra flour as needed to reach desired consistency.
  5. Knead for five minutes.
  6. Then place dough in greased bowl and allow to rise one hour.
    7. Assembly:
  7. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or Silpat.
  8. Roll dough into 15 x 12 inch rectangle.
  9. Spread 2-4 tbsp of jam along 2/3rds of dough. Then fold dough in thirds.
  10. Cut dough into 12 equal strips.
  11. Then cut each strip in half leaving a 1/4 of the strip uncut at the top. Twist strip and then form into ball, tucking ends. Place shaped rolls on prepared pan and allow to rise 30 min.
  12. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  13. Bake rolls 20-23 min or until golden brown.
    14. Drizzle:
  14. Combine powdered sugar and boiling water. Drizzle over buns.

Prep time: 2 hours - Cook time: 20-23 min

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  3. Funny timing on this one! We just had a friend bring by some homemade cranberry jam yesterday. And now I see this post. Perfect! These look like amazing sweet rolls, Megan…definitely worthy of Christmas morning snacking! Glad to hear that you’ve taken over the reigns as Christmas morning baker! Next year should be a coffee cake…that’s our go-to Christmas morning treat. 🙂

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    • Coffee cake does sound great! But we stuck with the sweet roll theme this year – this time orange chocolate chip 🙂 Thanks David!!

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  4. Williams Sonoma pastries are my go-to comfort food gift to send to friends and family! But I always love baking homemade treats and definitely want to add these cranberry sweet rolls to my holiday menu. I have fresh cranberries in my fridge just waiting to be used!

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    • This would be the perfect use for fresh cranberries! Thanks Ashley – hope you had a great holiday 🙂

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  10. I’d love to wake up to these gorgeous rolls every morning! Love the cranberries! Happy Happy Holidays to you Megan!

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  12. Monkey bread or cinnamon rolls are a Christmas morning tradition in our house, but these cranberry sweet rolls would be a welcome change!! These look amazing, girlfriend and they are PERFECTLY festive!!! Thinking I may need to switch things up this year! I hope you and your family have a VERY Merry Christmas! Cheers! <3

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    • I’ve never made Monkey Bread! That sounds like a great holiday breakfast! Hope you had a great holiday, Cheyanne 🙂

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  13. If your Chistmas breakfast involves these delicious-looking rolls, cookies, a casserole, and drinking, I want to spend the holidays at your house!

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  16. The assembly instructions are a little confusing to me. Can you include pictures or clearer description of how to cut/fold/roll these? Thanks!

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