Monday, March 7, 2011

Gingerbread Spiral Rolls

The great gingerbread bonanza continues...yes yes.  After I made gingerbread blondies, I wondered how a gingerbread flavoring would work in a sweet yeast roll.....and it worked out beautifully.  The bread smelled amazing.

If you aren't fond of dates you can always use a different dried fruit or just leave the fruit out.

I had planned to leave a couple rolls without icing to make french toast, but I went on some sort of crazed icing spree and forgot all about it.  Sniff.....the gingerbread french toast will have to be tried another time.  Mmm.....gingerbread french toast....I wants it!


Gingerbread Spiral Rolls

3 cups unbleached all purpose flour (approx)
1 cup white whole wheat flour
1/2 cup wheat germ
1 package active dry yeast
3 tbls Vital Wheat Gluten
1 cup skim milk
1/4 cup oil
1/3 cup molasses
2 eggs, beaten lightly
1 tsp ground cinnamon
3/4 tsp ground ginger
1/4 ground cloves
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt

Filling:
1 cup brown sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup chopped dates
2 tbls tub margarine, melted

In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast in about 1/4 cup warm water.  Warm milk in the microwave and stir into the yeast mixture along with the molasses, oil, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg.  Mix in whole wheat flour, wheat germ, and vital wheat gluten.  Mix in eggs.  Begin to mix in remaining flour, until mixture becomes too hard to stir.  Turn out onto a floured board and knead in remaining flour to for a soft, elastic dough.  Continue to knead for about 8 to 10 minutes.  Place ball of dough in a covered bowl and let rise in a warm place until doubled for an hour.

Mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon for the filling.  Turn dough back out onto floured board.  Divide dough in half.  Roll each half out into something like a 9x13 rectangle and brush with melted butter. Sprinkle sugar mixture over the dough.  Top with chopped dates.  Roll dough into a tube starting with the narrow side.  Pinch edges together.  Cut into one inch slices with a knife and place on a greased cookie sheet.  Cover and let rise 30 to 60 minutes until doubled in size.

Bake at 350 for 18 to 20 minutes or until done.  Remove from cookie sheets to cool.  Drizzle icing over warm rolls.

Icing:
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 tbls skim milk
2 tbls maple syrup

Mix all ingredients together in a bowl, until smooth and well combined.

43 comments:

  1. Oh yum, I love gingerbread flavoured things, and sweet rolls are a great idea!

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  2. Oooh, my family would love this breakfast treat!

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  3. ROFLMAO at the crazy icing spree! These are beautiful, I know you'll get around the gingerbread French toast soon.

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  4. You HAVE been craving ginger! These looks utterly addictive. Mmmm!

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  5. This sounds amazing! So does the gingerbread french toast...

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  6. Your ginger odyssey has been inspiring! These look phenomenal perfect for Sunday breakfast!

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  7. Yummmmm! I love ginger baked goods, those look delightful. :)

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  8. I can only imagine how wickedly delicious your house smells!

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  9. I find absolutely nothing wrong with a crazy icing spree....sometimes it is just needed! I so wish I had smell-o-internet right now....I just may have everything needed to make these....hmm......

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  10. Ginger is magical. These might just end up being made in my kitchen this week...I wouldn't be surprised. You can still make French toast even though these are iced! Unless the beautiful icing atop these delicious rolls made them disappear.

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  11. these sound sinfully delicious. now i'm craving gingerbread. thanks for sharing

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  12. How yummy! This sounds like something that would be a great warmup on these last days of winter! Great Job!

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  13. Yum! You are making me crave gingerbread. I would never have thought of them as a yeast roll but these sound absolutely wonderful. I want to eat one!!! I bet your house smelled so good while these were baking!!

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  14. I am definitely game for all this gingerbread :) I've never had a roll like this before, and am ready for one already!

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  15. Ooooh! This would go so nicely with my morning tea!

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  16. Amazing! I love gingerbread, what a great treat!

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  17. Gingerbread is one of the things I miss the most.. totally adorable taste

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  18. Gingerbread flavor and a nice cup of tea go just so well together. These rolls look delicious!

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  19. Oh, I bet the dates go super well with this spiral roll!!!

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  20. As I started to read this, I was hoping you'd put maple in the icing...and you did! These are perfect.

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  21. Ginger is my absolute favourite slice and who doesn't love sweet rolls just dripping with icing the way these are....

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  22. I am so hungry right now seeing your rolls turned out to be a very bad idea...sweet tooth craving big time now.

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  23. Oooh looks so good! Where do you get your gluten?

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  24. I order the vital wheat gluten off Amazon these days....it can be hard to find unless you are in a grocery like Whole Foods or the like.

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  25. awesome flavor with all those spice additions I can just imagine the wonderful smell!

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  26. Gingerbread is such a comforting flavour and smell. I bet these were amazing!!!

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  27. That looks wonderful. I love that the base is gingerbread.

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  28. oh that looks so pretty .. and I can bet it taste great too!

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  29. Your gingerbread spiral rolls look really inspiring! They sounds super delicious, too :)

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  30. Not to be ginger about it... we've given you the One Lovely Blog Award! http://picture-perfectmeals.blogspot.com/2011/03/wed-like-to-thank-academy.html Thanks for sharing your wonderful recipes with us all!

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  31. Oh my goodness, these look mouthwateringly good! What a wonderful recipe and a decadent breakfast treat. Thanks for sharing!

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  32. Wow, these look amazing!!! Can't wait to try them!

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  33. I would love one of those for breakfast ! Actually I would love one of those anytime of the day

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  34. Impressive - would love to have one of these RIGHT now. This is on my list of must makes!

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  35. These sound sooooo yummy! I'd love one for breakfast all warm n gooey!

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  36. I LOVE gingerbread! (obviously, haha!) These gingerbread spiral rolls look amazing. I wish I could have one or two for breakfast. :)

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  37. omgosh, how did I miss this post!?! Brilliant idea...I bet this is delicious. This is one my list, too! Great post!

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  38. Wowelisious sweet bites!!! I wonder if using fresh ginger would be okey? Thank you for sharing and have a great weekend :)

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  39. You would have to experiment with fresh ginger. I'm not sure what kind of difference it would make. :)

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  40. Mmm...I both love and hate you for this post! Those look and sound amazing!

    -Emily

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  41. Mmmmm - love these!!! You are such a teaser :))

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