These are the best Raspberry Sweet Rolls ever! They are fluffy, soft, chewy and have an incredible raspberry filling, all topped with lemon cream cheese frosting.

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Raspberry Sweet Rolls Video Tutorial
Ingredients Needed for Raspberry Rolls
How to Make This Raspberry Sweet Roll Recipe
Storing and Reheating Raspberry Cinnamon Rolls
Raspberry Sweet Roll Recipe
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Raspberry Sweet Rolls Video Tutorial

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Ingredients Needed for Raspberry Rolls

Warm Water- use water that is approximately 140 degrees Fahrenheit. It should be just barely warm to your wrist.
Granulated Sugar- this is used to sweeten the cinnamon rolls and also to help activate the yeast.
Yeast- I'm using instant yeast for this recipe but quick rise yeast will also work.
Eggs- two large eggs are needed for this recipe. It's best to use room temperature eggs so it does not slow down the rising process. You can create room temperature eggs by placing them in a bowl of warm water for a few minutes before adding them to your do.
All-Purpose flour- I'm using all-purpose flour for the cinnamon roll recipe. It works great and makes really light and fluffy cinnamon rolls.
Salt- just regular salt or sea salt is perfect for this recipe

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Raspberry Roll Filling

Raspberry Preserves- you can use just about any kind of raspberry preserves here you can use the kind with the seeds or without the seeds whatever is your favorite is great.
Fresh raspberries- I'd like to add about one cup of fresh raspberries to my raspberry preserves. This makes the raspberry filling very flavorful and is perfect in the sweet roll recipe. If you don't have fresh raspberries you can certainly use frozen raspberries ones too. You will just need to heat them slowly on a stovetop and then add in a couple of tablespoons of cornstarch and a couple of tablespoons of water, 2 T brown sugar, and mixed them until the mixture thickens a little.

Lemon Cream Cheese Icing

Cream Cheese- use room temperature cream cheese for this recipe. It will make a really light and fluffy frosting. If you don't have room temperature cream cheese you can also unwrap your cream cheese, place it on a paper plate, and put it in the microwave for about 20 seconds.
Powdered sugar/confectioners sugar- this makes really light and sweet icing.
Lemon Extract- for a little extra lemon punch, use a litter extract.
Lemon Juice- traditional cream cheese frosting uses milk as the liquid in icing. For this lemon icing recipe, I'm going to add fresh lemon juice.
Vanilla Extract- a little vanilla extract is perfect in this lemon cream cheese icing recipe. It really cuts the tartness just a little and adds a lot of depth to this icing recipe.

Optional Raspberry Cream Cheese Drizzle

Cream Cheese- use room temperature cream cheese for this recipe. It will make a really light and fluffy frosting. If you don't have room temperature cream cheese you can also unwrap your cream cheese, place it on a paper plate, and put it in the microwave for about 20 seconds.
Powdered sugar/confectioners sugar- this makes really light and sweet icing.
Raspberry Preserves- for a little extra raspberry punch, use a large scoop of raspberry jam or raspberry preserves.
Milk- Makes it rich and creamy, light and fluffy.
Vanilla Extract- a little vanilla extract is perfect in this icing recipe.

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How to Make This Raspberry Sweet Roll Recipe

Make the dough: This recipe has simple ingredients, flour, sugar, salt, yeast, water, and a couple of eggs. Mixed together with the yeast, sugar, and warm water. Give this mixture a few minutes to “bloom” (to become frothy and bubbly). In the bowl of a standing mixer combine all the flour except one cup. Add in your yeast mixture and eggs. Mix on low until all ingredients are combined. Continue to add your remaining Flour until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl..
Knead the dough: You can use your mixer to knead the dough, with the dough hook attachment for 2-5 minutes. Cover the dough and let it rest until double. During this time, get your filling ingredients ready
Make Filling: In a small bowl combine the raspberry preserves and fresh raspberries. Use a spoon to mash up the fresh raspberries and mix in the raspberry preserves. Your mixture should be pretty thick.
Shape the raspberry cinnamon rolls: Roll the dough out into an 18×10 inch rectangle. Spread the raspberry mixture on top with the back of a spoon, Tightly roll, without pulling the dough, and cut into 1-1 ¼” slices. (You can cut it into traditional cinnamon roll slices or into heart-shaped cinnamon rolls (see instructional video) Place on a large greased baking sheet about ½ “ apart.
Rise: Let the shaped rolls rise until double for 60-90 minutes. You can place the sweet rolls in a slightly warm oven to speed up this process.
Bake: After the sweet rolls are nice and puffy, bake until golden brown.
Glaze- Mix up your icing and slather it all over those amazing sweet rolls!

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Storing and Reheating Raspberry Cinnamon Rolls

How to Freeze Before Baking- Follow the steps for mixing kneading and rolling up the sweet rolls. Roll and then slice the sweet rolls into 1-inch slices and place them on the baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Cover and freeze until completely frozen. Transfer to a large ziplock bag and keep frozen until ready to use.
How to Freeze After Baking- Individually wrap the sweet rolls and place in a ziplock bag in a single layer in the freezer. If you're freezing the entire pan of sweet rolls, cover tightly with plastic wrap to avoid freezer burn. Before you plan to serve them, remove them from the freezer the night before and let them thaw slowly. For best results, don't freeze the sweet rolls longer than 4 weeks.
How to Thaw Sweet Rolls- When you are ready to bake the sweet rolls, place on a greased baking dish and put them, preferably overnight, in the fridge. Place them in a warm place for about 30 minutes to 1 hour before baking or until they have had a chance to rise and are light and fluffy. Bake sweet rolls as directed.
How to Re-heat Sweet Rolls- Warm them in the oven at 350 degrees for 5 to 10 minutes or you can warm them up individually in the microwave for 20 to 30 seconds (after defrosted) it's easiest to freeze them before they’re iced and then frost them when they are ready to eat. The icing is also freezer friendly.

Raspberry Sweet Roll Recipe

These are the best Raspberry Sweet rolls ever! They are fluffy, soft, chewy and have an incredible raspberry filling, lemon cream cheese frosting, and raspberry cream cheese drizzle.

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 30

Total Time 1

Servings people

Calories 504kcal

Author The Carefree Kitchen

Ingredients

1 cup Water lukewarm
2 Tablespoons Rapid Rise Yeast
½ cup Sugar
2 large Eggs
1 Tablespoon Salt
2 Tablespoons Butter
4.5-5 cups All-Purpose Flour

Raspberry Filling

1¼ cups Raspberries fresh
½ cup Raspberry Jam

Lemon Cream Cheese Icing

½ cup Cream Cheese room temperature
2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice fresh
4 cups Powdered Sugar
½ teaspoon Lemon Extract
1 tsp Vanilla Extract

Optional: Raspberry Cream Cheese Drizzle

½ cup Cream Cheese room temperature
4 cups Powdered Sugar
2 Tablespoons Raspberry Preserves
½ teaspoon Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Instructions

To Make the Sweet Roll Dough

In a stand mixer, add the warm water (about 115 degrees or barely warm on your wrist).
Add the sugar and yeast, mix. (Let that mixture sit for about 5 minutes or until the yeast mixture is light and frothy.
Add 3 cups of the flour, eggs, and the salt. Using a dough hook on your mixer, mix the dough for about 2 minutes or until the dough is really gooey and stringy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Add more flour, a half cup at a time, to the yeast mixture while mixing. Once you have added about 4 cups flour, continue to knead the bread. Add flour only until the dough pulls away clean from the edge of the bowl, up to 1 more cup. (5 cups total) By watching this important step it will ensure you don't add too much flour to your dough. If you have flour left over, no worries. You can dust your counter top lightly with the remaining flour when you roll your dough out.
Cover with a towel and let your dough rise about 20-30 minutes.

Berry Filling

In a medium bowl, mix together the fresh raspberries and raspberry jam.

Rolling out the Berry Sweet Rolls

Once the dough has double, turn it out onto a floured surface and form it into a small rectangle with your hands. Then, using a rolling pin, gently roll the dough into an approximately 24" x 12" rectangle (should be about ½" thick).
Spread the berry filling evenly over the rolled dough, keeping the mixture about 1" away from the edges.
Starting at either 24" long side, roll the dough up evenly making sure to get a nice tight tube, then cut into 1"-1.5" slices using a sharp serrated knife or floss.
Lay the slices cut side down in a greased 9" x 13" baking pan about 1" apart. Cover loosely with a light towel and put them in a warm place until they double in size. (about 20-30 minutes) They should be spongy to the touch.

Baking the Raspberry Rolls

While your dough is rising, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Once risen, bake in a preheated oven for 25-30 minutes, or until the bottom and the top are golden brown.
Remove from the oven, then spread a thick layer of lemon frosting on the warm sweet rolls, paying close attention to evenly coat the edges. Enjoy!

Cream Cheese Icing for Berry Sweet Rolls

Lemon: In an electric mixer, beat the room temperature cream cheese until light and fluffy. Turn the mixer down very low and add the powdered sugar, lemon juice, lemon extract, and vanilla extract. Mix until all the ingredients are combined. Turn the mixer on high again and beat until fluffy. (Note: If it's a little too runny for you, add a little more powdered sugar. If it's a little too thick, add a splash of lemon juice.)
Raspberry: Make exactly as the lemon cream cheese icing, thinning down as needed with milk to create a drizzle.

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These are the best raspberry sweet rolls ever! If you love gooey sweet rolls, I'll show you step by step how to make the best sweet rolls of all time ever. They are fluffy, soft, chewy and have an incredible raspberry filling, lemon cream cheese frosting, and a raspberry cream cheese drizzle too.

This Raspberry Sweet Roll recipe doesn't require a ton of ingredients. If you follow my step by step directions you will have amazingly soft and tender raspberry cinnamon rolls fresh from the oven.

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