Orange cream cheese frosting--how can you miss?
Ingredients
- active dry yeast: 1 pack (.25 ounce pack)
- warm water (105 - 115 degrees F; 40 - 45 degrees C): 0.25 cup
- warm orange juice (105 - 115 degrees F; 40 - 45 degrees C): 0.75 cup
- warm milk (105 - 115 degrees F; 40 - 45 degrees C): 0.25 cup
- shortening: 0.25 cup
- white sugar: 0.25 cup
- egg, lightly: 1 piece (beaten)
- salt: 1 tsp
- ¾ cups all-purpose flour: 3 piece (or as needed)
- white sugar: 1 cup
- butter: 0.5 cup (softened)
- orange zest: 2 Tbsp
- confectioners' sugar: 2 cups
- cream cheese: 0.5 pack (8 ounce pack, softened)
- butter: 3 Tbsp (softened)
- orange juice: 3 Tbsp
- orange zest: 2 tsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Dissolve yeast in warm water and warm orange juice in a bowl. Let stand until yeast softens and begins to form a creamy foam, about 5 minutes.
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Beat warm milk, shortening, 1/4 cup white sugar, egg, and salt together in a separate bowl. Stir yeast mixture into milk mixture. Add enough flour to mixture to create a soft dough. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6 to 8 minutes.
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Grease a large bowl and two 11x7x2-inch baking sheets.
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Place dough in the greased bowl and turn dough to coat all sides. Cover bowl with plastic wrap or a clean towel and let rise in a warm place until dough is doubled in size, about 1 hour.
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Punch dough down and divide in half. Roll each half on a lightly floured surface creating two 15x10-inch rectangles.
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Mix sugar, softened butter, and orange zest in a bowl until filling is smooth. Spread half of the filling onto each dough rectangle. Roll each rectangle around the filling, jelly roll-style, starting with the long end creating a log. Cut each log into 15 rolls.
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Arrange rolls on the prepared baking sheets. Cover baking sheets with plastic wrap and let rolls rise until doubled in size, about 45 minutes.
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Remove plastic wrap from baking sheets.
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Bake rolls in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes.
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Beat confectioners' sugar, cream cheese, softened butter, orange juice, and orange zest in a bowl until frosting is smooth. Spread frosting on the warm rolls.