Freshly baked tray of Apple Cashew Butter Rolls with a golden, flaky exterior and apple slices peeking through making the rolls look like roses.

Apple Cashew Butter Rolls

These delicious Apple Cashew Butter Rolls are a perfect sweet treat for any occasion. Made with a soft, yeast-based dough and filled with honey crisp apples, cashew butter, and cinnamon sugar, these rolls offer a delightful balance of flavors. The dough is carefully mixed and rested, while the apple filling adds a tender, juicy bite. Baked to golden perfection, these rolls are sure to impress with their fluffy texture and rich, nutty filling.

Category: Baking

Yield: 24 rolls

Ingredients:

Sweet Dough Ingredients

  • 1080 g all-purpose flour
  • 36 g instant dry yeast
  • 200 g granulated sugar
  • 16 g kosher salt
  • 454 g whole milk,
  • 200 g whole eggs, room temperature
  • 150 g unsalted butter, room temperature

 

Filling Ingredients:

  • 908 g honey crisp apples
  • 60 g lemon juice
  • 400 g light brown sugar
  • 4 g ground cinnamon
  • 2 g kosher salt
  • 290 g Once Again Cashew Butter

 

Directions:

  • Make the dough: Combine all the dough ingredients in an all-purpose mixer fitted with a dough hook. Mix on speed #1 for 3 minutes. Mix on speed #2 for 5-7 minutes or until full gluten development. Bulk ferment dough until doubled in size. Cover and rest 6-10 hours in the cooler.
  • Soften the apples: Cut cored apple halves into 1/16” slices. Combine apple slices in a large bowl with enough water to cover the apples. Add lemon juice. Microwave in 2-minute intervals until apples are pliable. Drain apples, pat dry and let cool.
  • Prepare the filling: Combine the brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Set aside. Scale cashew butter.
  • Make the rolls: Prepare a half sheet with a pan extender sprayed with non-stick spray. Alternately, prepare 24-3x2” baking rings sprayed with non-stick spray. Roll the dough into a rectangle measuring 12" x 36”. Spread the cashew butter over the dough, leaving a 1” border along the top 36” edge. Evenly spread the sugar mixture over the cashew butter.
    • Cut 1.5” strips of dough perpendicular to the 36” side to yield 24 strips. Slightly overlap 4-5 apple slices horizontally on the top half of the strip, roll the dough toward the 1” border and secure. Place rolls in the prepared pan or rings.
    • Let the rolls proof until doubled in volume. Bake at 350°F in a conventional or deck oven until internal temperature reaches 190°F.
Freshly baked Apple Cashew Butter Rolls with a golden, flaky exterior and apple slices peeking through making the rolls look like roses.
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