Cherry Rose Sourdough Rolls Recipe

How to make it

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• In a small saucepan, heat the 3/4 cup of milk almost to a boil over medium heat. Do not boil.
• Set aside to cool 15 mins or so.
• Sprinkle yeast over warm water & set aside to soften 5 mins. Stir.
• In a large bowl, combine sourdough starter, cooled milk, yeast mixture, butter, sugar & salt.
• Stir in enough flour to make a soft dough
• Turn out onto a lightly floured surface.
• Clean & well grease bowl.
• Knead dough 5 - 8 mins until smooth & elastic
• Place dough in greased bowl, turning to grease all sides. Cover with plastic wrap & store in the fridge for 2 hrs or overnight - SEE NOTE
• Grease 2 baking sheets
• Punch down dough & turn out onto a lightly floured surface & divide into 16 equal pieces.
• Gently roll each piece to a 15 inch rope.
• Loosely coil each rope, tucking the end of the rope under coil. - SEE PICTURE.
• Place coils on greased baking sheets about 2 inches apart.
• Cover with a cloth & let rise in a warm place 1 - 2 hrs until doubled in size.
• Pre-heat oven to 375*F
• Press the center of each roll with your fingers down to the baking sheet to make deep indentation. - SEE PICTURE
• Spoon cherry pie filling into each indentation. - SEE PICTURE
• Bake in pre-heated oven 12 - 15 mins until starting to brown.
• Remove form baking sheet & cool on wire racks.
• In a small bowl, mix together the icing sugar, vanilla & 1 tblspn milk.
• Drizzle over each roll.
• NOTE:
• I actually had to leave my dough in the fridge for 2 days as I got called into work right after I had the dough made & they still came out beautifully. I found as I was rolling the dough into ropes it was quite elastic, so I rolled each piece to about 10 - 11 inches & set them all aside. They relaxed enough by then to go back to the 1st one & roll them into the 15 inches. Keep an eye on them while they are baking as they tend to brown very quickly on the bottoms. I did reduce the oven temp. from the original recipe. If you happen to get some a little too tight when you coil them it's not a big deal. The centers will pop up while they rise but you fix that when you press the centers down to add the pie filling.

Coil each rope   Close

Press down center of each roll   Close

Spoon in cherry pie filling   Close