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    Home » Recipes » Breads » Sweet Rolls

    Orange Cranberry Honey Stick Buns

    Published by Melissa on February 25, 2013 | Updated June 10, 2022 | 22 Comments

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    Orange Cranberry Honey Stick Buns Barbara Bakes

    Gooey honey bun sweet rolls dripping with a stick orange honey topping and crowned with pecans. These cinnamon roll style buns are filled with orange sugar and tart dried cranberries.

    Today’s recipe is another one I adapted from one of my favorite cookbooks, Chocolate Snowball: and Other Fabulous Pastries from Deer Valley Bakery. Letty, the cookbook author and pastry chef at Deer Valley Resort, and I are friends. After I posted my version of her Chocolate Snowballs, Letty invited me to come up to Deer Valley to practice piping whipped cream stars on Chocolate Snowballs in the Snow Park Bakery. (I mentioned in my Snowball post I struggled with piping.)

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    Letty and her staff were so gracious. They taught me how to pipe whipped cream stars, shared samples of the luscious desserts they were serving, as well as taste the tantalizing new desserts they’re developing.

    The bakery fridge was overflowing with desserts. It made me smile that they had to rearrange the desserts just to fit everything in, just like I have to do at home.

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    The bakery was such a busy place, and I’m not sure I could handle the rigors of it every day. My hand got tired after piping just one tray of snowballs. I have a new appreciation for the chefs who work at the bakery. Letty was very complimentary of the other bakers in her kitchen. They make a great team.

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    The first time I leafed through Letty’s cookbook, I marked this honey bun recipe so I’d remember to make it soon. She described them as gorgeous and gooey and said the honey keeps the caramel topping softer.

    I brought home some orange honey from Winco, so I thought it would be fun to change up the flavor of the honey buns a bit to highlight the orange flavor of the honey. I eliminated the cinnamon in the recipe, substituted orange sugar, and sprinkled dried cranberries over the dough to add a little tartness and extra texture. I also substituted a little whole wheat pastry flour which adds a nice texture to the rolls.

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    When the rolls were done baking, I asked my husband to flip them onto the serving platter. I wanted it on a big white platter so it would look pretty in the pictures. The only platter I had that was big enough had sloped edges and was really awkward to flip.

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    He asked if he could use a different platter, but I said I really wanted it on the white platter for the pictures. So he did it for me even though it was a pain and some of the hot syrup slopped onto the table. But don’t they look pretty on the white platter dripping with the sticky orange honey goo!

    Although, they might look even prettier on a plate set in front of you.

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    Thanks again Letty for inviting me in to your bakery kitchen and for sharing your delicious recipes in Chocolate Snowball. Letty also has a passion for gourmet vegetarian cooking. When she’s not busy in the Deer Valley Bakery, she shares her vegetarian cooking on her blog, Muffin Talk.

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    Orange Cranberry Honey Sticky Buns

    Cook Time45 mins
    Total Time45 mins
    Course: Sweet Rolls
    Keyword: baking, Breakfast, cooking, Dessert, food, recipe
    Servings: 12 Buns
    Author: Barbara Schieving
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    Ingredients

    Dough

    • 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
    • 2 - 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
    • 2 ¼ teaspoons 1 package instant yeast
    • ¾ teaspoon salt
    • 1 cup milk
    • 8 tablespoons 1 stick unsalted butter, cut into ½ inch pieces
    • 3 eggs lightly beaten
    • 1 tablespoon honey
    • ⅓ cup granulated sugar
    • 1 tablespoon orange zest finely grated
    • 1 cup dried cranberries

    Sticky Goo

    • 8 tablespoons 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
    • ½ cup honey I use orange honey
    • ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
    • ¾ cup chopped pecans optional

    Instructions

    • Dough
    • In the bowl of a stand mixer, using the paddle attachment, combine whole wheat pastry flour, 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour, yeast, and salt.
    • In saucepan or microwave safe dish, heat milk and butter until warm (120°–130°F). Add heated milk and butter to flour mixture. Mix in eggs and honey. Blend at low speed until moistened.
    • Switch to the dough hook and mix in the remaining flour a little at a time, to make a soft smooth dough, adding more or less flour as needed. Knead the dough for 5 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning to grease top. Cover; let rise in warm place until double, about 1 hour.
    • While the dough is rising mix granulated sugar with orange zest in a small bowl; set aside.
    • Sticky goo
    • Mix the butter, honey and brown sugar until smooth. Brush a 9x13-inch pan with butter of spray with cooking spray. Spread the sticky goo into the pan. Sprinkle with the pecans, if using.
    • Assembly
    • Gently deflate the dough. On a lightly floured work surface (I like to use a Silpat) roll into a 16x11-inch rectangle. Sprinkle evenly with orange sugar mixture. Sprinkle cranberries evenly on top of the orange sugar.
    • With the long edge of the rectangle facing you, roll it into a tight, long cylinder, like a jelly roll. Pinch the top edge to seal so it can't unroll. Cut into 12 slices. Arrange evenly, cut side down, in the prepared pan spread with goo; they should be almost touching. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise at room tempearature for about 30 minutes.
    • Preheat oven to 375º.
    • Place the pan of buns on a baking sheet to catch any overflowing goo. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until the tops of the rolls are light golden brown. Immediately invert onto a clean tray or serving platter, taking care not to spatter yourself with hot goo. If there is goo left in the pan, scrape it up and spread it back onto the buns.

    Notes

    High Altitude: The dough will rise faster; check sooner for double. Put the rolls in the oven just before they double in size. This allows for more oven spring (the immediate rising of the dough in the hot oven, before it begins to brown).

    More sweet roll recipes you might like:

    Bake Shop Cherry Sweet Rolls, Barbara Bakes
    Blackberry and Cherry Kolaches, Barbara Bakes
    Citrus Cream Cheese Pull Apart Rolls, Barbara Bakes
    Overnight Buttermilk Soft and Fluffy Cinnamon Rolls, Averie Cookie
    Meyer Lemon Sweet Rolls, Cheeky Kitchen
    Raspberry Sweet Rolls, Buns in My Oven

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    1. My Inner Chick

      March 03, 2013 at 9:14 am

      –All I can add is “OH, Yes, Baaaby!”

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    2. Ala

      February 28, 2013 at 1:05 am

      What a *wonderful* documentation of your adventures–we’re all cooking vicariously through you, Barbara 😉 and these buns look mm-mazing!

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