Cherry Date Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
Cherry Date Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
Sourdough and Cinnamon Rolls


Hot Chocolate and Cinnamon
We love to serve cinnamon rolls with mugs of hot coffee or mugs of hot chocolate. There is something about the taste of hot chocolate and cinnamon that I just love. One of my secret treats is cinnamon-sugar sugar toast with lots of butter, served with a mug of hot chocolate. Yum! So simple, yet so comforting.

Cherry Date Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients
- Cherry Date Filling:
- 10 ounces pitted dates, chopped
- 5 ounces dried cherries, chopped
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup water
- 1 or 2 jiggers Brandy, optional
- Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
- 1 1/2 cups fed sourdough starter, stirred down
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 to 3 cups unbleached white bread flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Cinnamon Filling:
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- Make Icing:
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 to 2 tablespoons milk
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a small saucepan combine chopped dates, dried chopped cherries, sugar, salt, water and brandy, if using. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes or until dates and cherries are very soft and mixture has thickened. Set aside to cool. Transfer mixture to a small bowl when cool and refrigerate overnight. Take mixture out of refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature before using as filling in sourdough cinnamon rolls.
- Baking Day:
- Measure out stirred down sourdough starter into a large bowl. Add milk, vanilla extract, melted butter, salt and 2 cups flour. Stir/knead this together to make a very sticky dough. Add up to 1 cup more flour if needed. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead by hand. Sprinkle in the baking soda and make sure it is thoroughly incorporated. Roll dough into a ball and place it in the bottom of a greased bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in a warm area to rise. This rise should take 2 to 3 hours. The dough should double in size. When the dough has risen, turn it out onto a floured surface. Pressing all the air bubbles out as you go. Roll the dough into a rectangle, roughly 9 x 18.
- Mix together sugar and ground cinnamon. Brush the rolled dough with 2 tablespoons melted butter. Sprinkle with 1/2 of the cinnamon/sugar mixture. Spread cherry/date filling over cinnamon/sugar mixture. Sprinkle with rest of cinnamon/sugar mixture. Starting on one of the long sides, roll the dough into a long log. Slice log into 12 rounds and place rounds, cut side down in buttered glass 2 quart baking dish. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 2 hours or until doubled in size. Bake rolls at 350 for 20 minutes and top is golden brown.
- Make Vanilla Icing: Whisk together all icing ingredients. Remove rolls from oven. Drizzle icing over rolls in pan while rolls are still hot. Serve warm.
Cinnamon Butter
Here is a super sourdough bread recipe you won’t be able to resist. Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough bread is super toasted and smeared with fresh creamy cinnamon butter. Cinnamon butter can be easily made by stirring ground cinnamon into room temperature butter. The end result is delicious on this bread or anything really. Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough Bread.
For this recipe we used dried cherries from Door County Cherries
24 Comments on “Cherry Date Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls”
Hi Miz Helen~ Thanks for stopping by today! Hope your summer is going well~ See you on Thursday~ Lynn
Hi Lynn,
Your Cherry Date Cinnamon Rolls look wonderful and I sure would love to have one. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and have a great week.
Miz Helen
I love where you went with the filling! They sound sweet and healthy!
It is a filling I use in cookies and bread too:) Lynn
Boozy-fruity-cinnamon rolls? Well, OK, fine, twist my rubber arm – these sounds wonderful!
Hi Korena~ Thanks for stopping…..I'm twisting:)
Awesome job! And I have to thank you for the inspiration – I used your recipe for my own sourdough cinnamon rolls due to your amazing successes. 🙂
Well Thank you Shelley~ I'll see you again next month:)
I guess we all had trouble with the Linky tool today. I realised what the problem was when I clicked on the "new" way to add a link and say that it specified the "www". Anyway, love this filling! I go for any dessert with booze.
Yep, I guess we all did!! Don't forget the ".com" lol See you next month:) Lynn
Love the sound of that filling. Yum! Glad you got your link fixed!
Thanks Joan, me too:) I have used this same filling in date swirl cookies that I make at Christmas time! It's really delicious! Lynn
I like the sound of dates and cherries. My rolls failed, but your recipe was recommended by a fellow Sourdough Surprises baker so I'm going to try it.
Sorry to hear your rolls failed~ I have to admit I've had a few failed batches of rolls myself! Better luck with this recipe:) Lynn
I love cinnamon rolls, your looks absolutely scrumptious 🙂 These would be perfect for a weekend breakfast!
Hi Ann~ Thanks for stopping:) These turned out great~
Mmmn! That filling sounds delicious!
I saw on another post that you had trouble with getting the link entered. Mine didn't work the first time either. I discovered that I had left the www off of the sourdough surprises link in my post. Once I added that to the link url, the Linkz tool accepted my post. Hope this helps!
Hi Rebecca! Thanks for stopping and I finally got it to work~ Thanks for your help! Lynn
Wow, those look delicious! It took me three hours to enter my cinnamon rolls this morning!!! The link tool hated me and kept giving me an error message 🙁 I finally had to add the www. to the address in my link back, and it worked! 🙂 I saw that you were having a problem and thought I would throw in my two cents just in case it is the same problem. Good luck, I hope you get it fixed 🙂 Lisa
Hi Lisa~ Thanks for stopping by~ I finally got it fixed and I had forgotten most of the link!! lol No wonder it didn't work:) Thanks for your 2 cents worth, it certainly helped! Lynn~ Now I can go and check out all the other yummy cinnamon rolls:)
YUM! These look awesome! Love the fun filling, too!! You said you had trouble getting hte links tool to work – make sure that your back link is for the full http://www.sourdoughsurprises.blogspot.com (you need both the "www." and the ".com") Hope that helps! if not, email us!
Hi~ Thanks Everyone for Your Help! It Worked!! The hubby and I were running late this morning and I wanted to quickly add my link. Then I ran into trouble adding it and of course I got the "old evil eye", "we gotta go now" look from the hubby! For what ever reason, I had the link totally wrong, no wonder it didn't work!!! So Thanks Ladies for your help:) Lynn
Who in their right mind would not love Cinnamon Rolls. Could I move in please? x
lol! Anytime Cindy:) (Even though I have been told a few times that I'm not in my right mind:) Lynn