Pecan Rolls Amongst Puff Pastry | Cinnamon Rolls Amongst Pecans

When I was catering, I did a lot of brunches as well as breakfasts for ladies... commonly vacation breakfasts, or babe as well as marriage showers.  I learned thus much most how women consume - particularly only about other women.  I would travel thus disappointed that they would skip over the giant cinnamon rolls I had slaved over.  Sure they would oh as well as ah at them, but no 1 would travel willing to create sum their plate alongside the huge pastry.  However, when I started making these smaller Pecan Sticky Rolls, they were a striking - the ladies would fifty-fifty inquire for seconds!  Maybe it was the to a greater extent than petite size, or mayhap the lack of frosting?  Maybe the caramel pecan glaze (made from a uncomplicated schmear) was besides much to resist?!   

When I was inwards college working at a bakery, I discovered 'schmear.'  Schmear at this bakery didn't hateful cream cheese on a bagel... but, a smoothen mixture of butter as well as chocolate-brown saccharide that was 'schmeared' on the bottom of the muffin pan earlier the cinnamon rolls were pose in.  After baking, nosotros inverted the rolls onto a tray to bring out that the schmear had created a caramel glaze that cascaded over the rolls. 

That sounds slow (and delish), right?  It gets better.  Instead of slaving over homemade breadstuff dough to brand the cinnamon rolls similar they did at the bakery, right away I purpose frozen Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry.  Instead of the typical fluffy, doughy cinnamon rolls (fabulous inwards their ain right), the Puff Pastry creates a buttery, flakey coil that is, well, soooo good.  I also dearest that they are smaller than the normal over-sized bakery cinnamon rolls - they are a perfect indulgence to serve at brunch or alongside a loving cup of coffee. 

You tin educate these ahead of fourth dimension (great to convey only about for the holidays...) yesteryear next the directions below, as well as thus putting them into the freezer instead of the oven.  When you lot are laid to bake them, only allow them sit down out for 10-20 minutes earlier they acquire into the hot oven.

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Pecan Rolls

with Puff Pastry

2 sheets of Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry* (1 package)

2 tablespoons of butter
1/4 loving cup of sugar
1/2 loving cup of chocolate-brown sugar
two tablespoons of cinnamon

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12 tablespoons of butter, softened
1/2 loving cup of chocolate-brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1 loving cup of pecans

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. 

*Let frozen Puff Pastry sit down out to thaw for xx minutes earlier using.

Fold the Puff Pastry sheets out on a lightly floured surface.  Spread 1 tablespoon of softened butter out onto each sheet.  Next, spread one-half of the 1/4 loving cup of saccharide as well as 1/2 loving cup of chocolate-brown saccharide onto each sheet.  Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of cinnamon onto each sheet.  Roll the sheets into long rolls, as well as thus cutting them each inwards to vi fifty-fifty pieces.  

Create the schmear yesteryear creaming together 12 tablespoons of butter, tabular array salt as well as 1/2 loving cup of chocolate-brown sugar.  Scoop a tablespoon of the mixture into the bottom of each loving cup of a large muffin pan.  Put 4-5 pecans on overstep of the schmear mixture, pressing it down.  Put a spell of the cinnamon roll, spiral side up, inwards each muffin cup.

Place the muffin tin on a baking sail - only inwards example they volition bubble over inwards the oven.  Bake for 25-27 minutes, until puffed as well as golden.  Let them cool inwards the muffin pan for two minutes - only!  Place some other sail pan on top, as well as invert them, removing the muffin pan. 

Unfold the puff pastry sheet.

 Spread the butter evenly.

Follow alongside sugar.

Then chocolate-brown sugar...

And cinnamon. 

Roll it upward tightly.

Slice each sail into vi pieces.  You tin fifty-fifty practise 8 if you lot wan to stretch it. 

Put a scoop of schmear inwards each cup.

Then hit it downwardly alongside the pecans.  I similar the await of pecan halves, but you lot tin purpose pieces, too.

Place the rolls on overstep of the pecans (I solely made 6, using only 1 sheet).  Want to brand these ahead of time?  This is the request you lot tin roll them upward as well as stick them inwards the freezer!

 Puffed as well as baked.  I used an extra large jumbo muffin tray, but you lot tin purpose a normal size.  Yours volition travel to a greater extent than alluvion if you lot purpose a measure muffin tray... both travel great. 

Place a pan (upside down) on overstep of the other tray, as well as thus flip.

Remove the overstep tray, as well as the muffin tin...

Look how ooey, as well as goey!  These are thus slow to make, they're cracking for whatsoever quondam Sabbatum morning, or a special brunch.

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*Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry is 1 of my Holiday Entertaining sponsors.  I approached them to bring together me inwards partnership this Holiday flavour because I LOVE their products as well as convey relied on them for years to brand my entertaining a success!

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