I love cooking and eating food that uses all five of your senses; sight, taste, smell, touch and hear. After all, not everything makes it into each catagory.
Think about it. Taco Bell bean burritos aren’t the prettiest things you can eat, but boy do I love them. And Sprinkles Cupcakes sure are cute and all, but they never taste good to me.
But these Orange Poppy Seed Sweet Rolls.
Well, they reach you on all five levels.
Sight I just love how they came out looking. I love anything swirly, it reminds me of Alice in Wonderland for some reason.Taste These sweet rolls taste fantastic. They are sweet and gooey, though much lighter and brighter than your classic cinnamon roll.
Smell If you have never baked with orange, do it now. It makes your house smell heavenly.
Touch Talk about sticky fingers!
Hear Make these. Give them to your friends. Listen. You should hear something that sounds like this ‘mmmmmmmmm‘.
Orange Poppy Seed Sweet Rollsyield: 12 large rolls
4 TBS Butter, softened
3/4 cup Orange Juice, room temperature
2 tsp Active Dry Yeast
1 tsp Salt
1 Egg
1 TBS Poppy Seed
3 cups AP Flour
3/4 cup Sugar
1 TBS Butter, melted
1 cup Powdered Sugar
4 tsp Orange Juice, pulp-free
1 tsp Orange Zest
1. Cut butter into small pieces. Set aside.
2. Attach the dough hook to your electric mixer and add the orange juice and egg. Add the yeast and salt. Add the remaining ingredients and turn on the dough hook to medium speed.
3. Knead for 6-7 minutes until completely smooth and butter has been mixed into the dough evenly. Place dough in a large bowl and cover with a clean towel. Let rise in a warm, draft-free place for 1 hour.
4. After one hour dough should be doubled in size. Divide dough into 12 equal pieces. Shape each piece into 10-inch rope; coil each rope and tuck end under coil.
5. Use the melted butter to brush over the rolls. Cover the rolls with a clean towel and let rise in a warm, draft-free place for another hour.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake rolls for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire rack.
7. Combine powdered sugar, orange juice and orange zest in a bowl until smooth. Spread over the rolls.
