ORANGE CRESCENT SWEET ROLLS - QUICK RISE

Ingredients:

2 1/2 Cups Warm Milk (water can be substituted)

2 Tablespoons Yeast

2 Tablespoons Sugar

1 teaspoon Salt

3 Tablespoons Oil

1 ¼ cups sugar

5 1/2 -6 Cups Flour (use approximately 5 cups all purpose flour and 1 cup self rising flour)

Zest from 5 Oranges

3 Tablespoons Orange Juice

Butter flavored cooking spray

1 recipe Orange Butter* or ½ cup butter, softened

Directions:

Preheat your warming drawer on your oven to the lowest setting.

First:  Add yeast and then sprinkle the sugar over the 2 1/2 cups of milk.  Stir until sugar dissolves.  Let it sit for about five minutes until you see the yeast get all bubbly on top.

Next:  Stir in the salt, oil, sugar and 4 cups flour.

Then: Stir in the Orange Zest and Orange Juice (do not add these ingredients before this or they will curdle your milk)

Then: Stir in the remaining flour

Then:  Knead (or use the pastry hooks on a blender) the dough for a few minutes until it is smooth and pulls away from..then transfer to a floured pastry mat and Knead the final strokes until it is smooth.

Then cover your bowl with a warm wet towel and let the dough sit for about 1 hour.
If you have a warming drawer in your oven, turn it on the lowest setting and let rise in the warming drawer.

After 1 hour the bread dough looks like this!

To make  the dough into rolls:

After the dough rises, split the dough into two balls of dough.  One at a time, roll out a ball of dough into a circle with the dough about 1/8 inch thick (I use a silicone pastry mat and a pastry rolling pin, but these are not essential).  

Spread ¼ cup * (1/2 cube) of softened butter on the circle (I use a raised spatula to spread the butter) 

Cut the circle into 8ths (like you are making slices of pizza).   

Roll up each slice beginning with the wide end.  Tuck in the pointed end into the roll so that it does not unroll in the oven.  Place each roll on a baking stone or a greased baking sheet (I use a baking stone). 

Let rise 20 minutes in a warm room.  

Bake for approximately 20 minutes in a preheated oven…but TURN your baking pan at least once during baking to help with even baking.  NOTE YOU WILL USE AN ENTIRE CUBE OF BUTTER FOR THIS RECIPE.

*use the Easy Orange Butter Recipe http://bakingbanquet.blogspot.com/2012/11/easy-orange-butter.html