This easy Cranberry Cinnamon Roll Bake recipe is perfect for any holiday breakfast. Cinnamon rolls are mixed with cranberries, coated with brown sugar, and drizzled with orange icing!
How do you give back this time of year? Usually we donate to Toys for Tots or the local food bank. This year, we decided to do something a little different: we adopted a family. We’ve been thinking about doing that for awhile but I never managed to get myself together in time. This year it was meant to be: I was googling on Thanksgiving night and found a local church that has an assist-a-family program. The deadline was Thanksgiving so I got my application in just in time.
The following week I got an email telling me about the family who we were helping. It was a young couple with two little girls. In addition to a grocery gift card, we were supposed to get a clothing item for each person and a “toy” or wishlist item. It broke my heart when I read the wishlist for the two kids: both only asked for winter clothes. No dolls or toys or bikes: just warm clothes.
Last weekend the three of us went to Walmart to go shopping. It was so much fun for us (Jordan especially) to pick out winter sweaters and pants and boots for the girls. We also went a little crazy in the toy aisle, guessing that 4- and 2-year old girls like dolls and books and doll things. When we got home, Jordan spent the day wrapping everything and later in the week we took 2 huge boxes of presents to the center. In our case, the family preferred an anonymous donation, although I’d been secretly hoping to meet them and take them cookie baskets too. 🙂
I was so happy we were able to do that this year, and use it as a good example for Jordan. She asked if we could do it again next year and I told her I sure hoped we could!
Have you started thinking about Christmas breakfast yet? Do you make it yourself, or do you do something easy? This Cranberry Cinnamon Roll Bake is kind of a combination of both: it’s a semi-homemade breakfast casserole that’s perfect for the holiday!
After I made my apple fritter cinnamon roll bake last month, I knew I had to recreate it (over and over). My first inclination was to make it blueberry, but then someone suggested cranberry. I’ve never baked with cranberries before (I KNOW, RIGHT?) so I asked Facebook what to make. Overwhelmingly, the answer was CRANBERRY!
(If you hate cranberries…you can totally substitute blueberries!)
The recipes starts with Pillsbury Grands! Cinnamon Rolls (the tube that has 5 jumbo rolls). You can use any brand you like, I just always gravitate towards them. Cut each roll into 6 pieces and layer them in the plate with the fresh cranberries. This recipe only uses 1 cup of fresh berries, which is perfect because I always have leftovers from centerpieces and cocktails.
The magic is in the buttery brown sugar sauce you pour all over the cinnamon rolls before baking (kind of like monkey bread). Then, after baking, you add a little orange juice to the icing that came with the rolls and drizzle it all over the hot casserole. (You can skip the OJ if you want, but the combination of orange and cranberry is a classic one.)
Basically, this is THE breakfast you need for Christmas…or the week after…or New Year’s…don’t you think?
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