Looking for a delicious sweet roll recipe? Our White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Rolls is the perfect breakfast treat for Mother’s Day breakfast, a brunch recipe, or a special dessert recipe.
My favorite cookie of all time is a white chocolate macadamia nut. The macadamia nuts are such a treat on their own that they have their own little thing going on, and then there is the gentle flavor from the white chocolate. I mean, is there a better cookie than this? (No way!) I don’t think so!
When creating my latest sweet roll recipe last week, I wanted to capture that perfect taste in a dessert. A sweet roll would help my favorite flavor linger a little longer than a cookie. The result of my delicious recipe project is a sweet roll that is so soft and flavorful that it tastes like a doughnut! Just like the cookie version, it too is my personal favorite!
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🥘Ingredients
- Milk
- White granulated sugar
- Yeast
- Unsalted butter
- Brown sugar
- Eggs
- All purpose flour
- White chocolate chips
- Shortening
- Macadamia nuts
- Cream cheese
- Powdered sugar
Note: This recipe uses a stand mixer with paddle and dough hook attachments. While I love having a stand mixer like this one, it can be done without one. It just makes the recipe easier with it.
You will find the complete measurements at the bottom of the page.
🔪Instructions
The complete instructions are in the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
🧾Substitutions
📖Variations
Cinnamon Bun Recipe
The great thing about sweet rolls and cinnamon rolls is they are so versatile. Once you have perfected your dough recipe, the filling can be whatever you want! All you need is a moist ingredient and something sweet. Other than that, the traditional butter and cinnamon filling is just a suggestion. One we are going to ignore for this recipe!
Once the hour is up, prep your workspace with a large amount of flour. Since my workspace is wood, I add a little extra flour to keep things from sticking. The extra flour isn’t noticeable so don’t feel like you are going to ruin anything by using too much. There’s no such thing. You just don’t want this beautiful dough to stick to the table, use however much flour you need to in order for that not to happen!
🍽 Equipment
- small bowl
- paddle attachment
- stand mixer
- dough hook
- rolling pin
- two round pans
🥫Storage
💭 Top tips
I like to make my sweet rolls after dinner and allow them to rise in my fridge. To do this, all you need to do is set your ingredients out before you start cooking dinner. Cook, eat, and cleanup, and then start your sweet rolls! The basic dough only takes about ten-fifteen minutes of active time if you have a stand mixture with the appropriate attachments (paddle, dough hook).
Before you pull your mixer out, warm your milk. Be careful not to heat it too much or you may scorch your yeast! Gently stir 1 tablespoon of sugar and your packet of yeast into the milk. Set aside to allow yeast to activate. If you don’t see frothy bubbles, toss it and start over!
If you’re like me, and making these yummy sweet rolls before bed so you can enjoy them in the morning, cover your rolls and place them in the fridge. The next morning your rolls should already have risen and filled the space between each roll. If not, that’s okay. Place a pan of water in the bottom of your oven and turn it on to 150-200 degrees. Place your rolls above the water pan and allow them to rise for 25-30 minutes. Once they have risen, remove rolls and the water pan from the oven so you can preheat it to the appropriate temperature without burning your rolls.
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Sweet Rolls
Equipment
- Small bowl
- paddle attachment
- dough hook
- two round pans
Ingredients
Dough Ingredients
- 1 cup Warm Milk
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 1 packet Yeast
- 1/2 cup Unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 4 cups All Purpose Flour scooped with a spoon and leveled with a knife
Filling Ingredients:
- 3 cups White Chocolate Chips
- 2 tbsp shortening
- 1 cup chopped macadamia nuts
Frosting Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup Unsalted Butter
- 1/2 cup Cream Cheese
- 1-2 cups Powdered Sugar
- 1/4 cup macadamia nuts
Directions
- Combine warm milk, 1 tbsp granulated sugar, and yeast in a small bowl. Set aside.
- Cream butter, sugar, brown sugar, and eggs with your mixer using the paddle attachment. Slowly mix in 2 cups of flour.
- Switch to your dough hook attachment. Pour in the yeast mixture all at once. Add remaining 2 cups of flour. Knead dough on a 1-2 speed setting until the flour is fully incorporated (about 3 minutes).
- Transfer dough into a lightly oiled large bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise in a warm place for 1 hour.
- {DON’T PREPARE FILLING YET! Roll dough before melting the white chocolate!}
- After dough has risen for 1 hour, roll dough on a floured surface into a large rectangle.
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt 2 cups of white chocolate chips and 2 tbsp shortening for 30 seconds. Stir and repeat. Stir well until smooth. If lumps remain, return to the microwave for 10 seconds, stir well.
- Smooth melted chocolate across your sweet roll dough. Scatter remaining 1 cup white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts on top of the melted chocolate.
- From the long side, roll your dough tightly.
- Starting at the middle, cut dough log into 1 inch thick rolls with a dough scraper or floss.
- Lightly grease two round pans. Divide your rolls in half, place half in each dish. Allow to rest in a warm place for 30 minutes before baking.
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Bake rolls for 25-30 minutes.
- Prepare your cream cheese frosting by combining butter, cream cheese, and powdered sugar. Mix until smooth. Set aside.
- Once the rolls are baked, top each with frosting and garnish with remaining macadamia nuts. Serve warm.
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