Fresh Apricots make a delicious filling in these Apricot Sweet Rolls. These are your favorite cinnamon roll filled with a fruit filing.
I'm down to my final few apricots left from the Peach Man. I bought a huge box of ripe apricots from our local fruit stand that needed to be used right away. I made homemade apricot jam and I have made these apricot sweet rolls three times! The kids are in sweet roll heaven!
For the first batch, I made an apricot filling with sugar, cornstarch and fresh cut apricots. When I went to roll up the dough I had nothing but a giant mess.
The filling oozed out the sides and all over the counter. Then I cut the rolls....more mess. The end result was a delicious sweet roll, but I lost half the filling in the process.
I started batch two the next morning. This time I took the fresh apricots and cut them up into teeny tiny pieces. That was it.
Once the dough was rolled out, I brushed it with butter, sprinkled it with sugar and then sprinkled on the fresh cut apricots. Rolling the dough was just like rolling up cinnamon rolls; perfectly easy and absolutely beautiful.
The kids thought the rolls were delicious!
The third batch was simply because I still had a handful of apricots left and this time I just couldn't resist!
I used my cinnamon roll recipe for the dough and then just added a very light sweet drizzle of icing at the end. These sweet rolls are delicious!
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Apricot Sweet Rolls
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk (warmed)
- 2¼ teaspoons yeast (or one package)
- 3 Tablespoons sugar
- 3 whole eggs
- ½ cup butter (melted and cooled)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 5 - 5½ cups all purpose flour
Filling
- ¼ cup melted butter
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 cup finely chopped fresh apricots
Glaze
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 Tablespoons milk
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl add milk, yeast and sugar. Let sit 5-10 minutes until yeast is bubbly.
- Add eggs, butter, salt and 2 cups of flour. Mix
- With mixer running, continue adding flour 1 cup at a time. You might not need all the flour.
- Knead for 10 minutes.
- Place in a well greased bowl and cover.
- Let stand until doubled, 60-90 minutes.
- Punch down and place on a flat surface.
- Roll out into a 12 x 18" rectangle.
- Brush with melted butter (reserve some of the butter for the top of rolls)
- Sprinkle sugar over butter and then sprinkle cut apricots.
- Roll dough and seal seam.
- Cut into 1" slices and place in a buttered baking dish.
- Let rise approx 30 minutes
- Bake in a 375 degree oven for 20-25 minutes.
- Let cool in dish.
- Mix glaze ingredients together and pour over baked and cooled cinnamon rolls.
Hannah says
Can I use bread flour instead of all-purpose flour? Just realized I’m out of all-purpose, but really wanna make them now lol
Kathy says
Hi Hannah,
Bread flour will work just fine!
Enjoy,
Kathy 🙂
Larissa says
We have an old family recipe using dried California apricots, boiled and chopped and spread just like you said, but with cinnamon too. This might inspire me to try them with fresh apricots. Fun to read this! I have been making them for years in my Gramma’s memory!
Kathy says
Hi Larissa,
I love old recipes, they just can't be beat! I hope this version with fresh apricots brings back tons of taste memories for you!
Enjoy 🙂
Kathy
Kathy Chapman says
I tried this today. Easy to follow recipe, but I wasn’t sure how long to knead the dough. I added slivered almonds and made the drizzle from apricot liquor and powdered sugar.
Kathy says
Hi - I love the addition of almonds and the apricot liquor in the icing! Yum!!! For kneading, I usually knead for 5 - 10 minutes.
Pamela says
Have you made them with gluten free flour, and an alternative sugar? Just wondering
Kathy says
Hi Pamela,
I have only made these sweet rolls as written in the recipe.
Kathy
Diane Marie Lockard says
Hi, my grandma made these ur she put the dough in ice water. I don't know why . Do you know why she did that? They we're e so good!
Kathy says
I don't know why she'd put it into ice water! I find old techniques so interesting and I love reading old cookbooks, but this is one I haven't heard before. I'm glad you enjoyed these sweet rolls.
Christie says
I love sweet rolls, but I never thought to use apricot. Looks so good!
Kathy says
They are pretty addicting!