Good evening, everyone, a late post tonight but I promise you, a yummy one once again 🙂
The Brick Castle gave me the inspiration for this one on Monday. I do love cinnamon rolls but I find the bought in ones generally too greasy and heavy after a few bites so I have been forever looking for a good, semi-healthy recipe. I say semi-healthy because dough is generally seen as the bad guy in the nutrition game and if you add to the equation sugar and fat then things get one a bit…on the wrong side of the track.
But since my appetite was whetted with the very visually appealing recipe mentioned above I decided to see if I can healthify it a bit and was very pleased with the results (read: I ate most of it myself over two and a half days. Blush…)
Right, ingredients used:
- puff sheet, ready rolled,light version
- 55 grams of cane sugar (I am not for very sweet desserts, plus fruit in puddings brings its own sweetness and flavour)
- 50 grams of butter
- 250 ml orange juice (used initially to soak the plums for a minimum of half an hour and then in softening the linseed )
- cinnamon (around 2 teaspoons)
- 200 grams prunes (or raisins or both)
- milled linseed (I didn’t actually weigh how much I used, I added to the prune and orange juice mixture until it formed a paste)
Baking tips:
- do soak your prunes (or raisins) in orange juice for at least half an hour. It softens them and gives your rolls a lovely, citrusy aroma
- once your prunes are soaked, simply add your sugar, milled linseed and cinnamon to the bowl
- spread your pastry sheet
- cover it from corner to corner with your cinnamon paste
- roll in lengthwise
- cut your roll into eight equal pieces
- place cut roll into a buttered-up baking tray
- Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes.
- Pull them out, cover them with honey and place again in the oven for another 10 minutes.
Ta-da, ready to rock and roll 🙂
I really enjoyed making and eating these rolls. I will be definitely making them again over Christmas, baby bump allowing 🙂
Mama's Haven 
ooooh i like the simplicity of this recipe. i aweays have some ready to roll pastry in the freezer – always handy to have on stand by x
Oh, Jenny, that’s a good idea, keeping roll pastry in the freezer, thank you!
Sounds like a divine mixture -sweet cinnamon,soft plums and linseed for a feel-good-factor. You are giving me a great idea with your recipe,Oana.Well done as usual!
P.S.Don’t know how you managed to not eat them all in one go. 🙂
xxx
Oh, Iva, I would have probably but with baby now filling most of my tummy there is no room :-). Thank you, the linseed was nutty and mixed so well with the prunes and the orange.xx
Hello there fellow top 25’er! I’d love to make these, but I don’t thinkI can get milled linseed here in Croatia. Any ideas for what I could use instead?
I would say milled walnuts would work brilliantly as well, my mum makes lovely rolls with them. I am so glad you stopped by, good to talk to another top 25 mummy blogger 🙂
Ah yes! Those we have lots of. I have pinned this for the future 😉
Thank you for pinning.xx
Lovely idea Oana. they are easier to make than i thought.
Thanks for linking up with the #FridayFoodie
Otilia, they were dead easy and absolutely scrummy 🙂
Glad you liked them and I love your changes! I sometimes add a little orange zest to mine too 🙂
Yeah, orange makes such a difference, doesn’t it?xx
I love the idea of soaking the raisins in orange juice, never would have thought of that. I like to make cinnamon rolls, but don’t always want to be patient for them to rise, etc. This is great! Thanks!
Lacey, they were super fast to make. The soaking takes less than half an hour and it’s the lengthiest bit. I am glad this gave you some ideas as how to shorten your time in the kitchen :-).
Yum, these look delicious and easy to make. I’ll be giving them a try!
They look great – fab simple recipes are always good to have in my bookmarks 🙂 Pinned. Thanks very much for linking up with #recipeoftheweek. There’s a new linky live now – would be brilliant to see you there again! 🙂 x
Thank you, Emily. I will pop by as soon as I decide on a Haloween themed-recipe for this week :-).xx