helter skelter sweet rolls

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
• 1/2 cup raisins, divided (optional)
• 2 (1 pound) loaves frozen bread dough, thawed
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 (4.6 ounce) package cook-and-serve vanilla pudding mix
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Recipe

Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins Ready Time: 3 hrs 30 mins


• grease a 13x9-inch baking dish. sprinkle walnuts into the bottom of the baking dish. sprinkle about half the raisins with the walnuts.
• tear one bread dough loaf into pieces; add to baking dish and top with remaining raisins.
• melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat. stir brown sugar, pudding mix, milk, and cinnamon with the butter; cook, stirring frequently, until the dry ingredients dissolve completely and the mixture thickens into a caramel-like sauce. drizzle the sauce over the bread in the baking dish.
• tear remaining dough loaf into pieces and arrange into he pan, filling any empty spots with dough pieces.
• let the dough raise for 2 1/2 hours to overnight.
• preheat oven to 375 degrees f (190 degrees c).
• bake in preheated oven until no longer doughy in the center, about 30 minutes. cool rolls in pan for 15 minutes.
• turn the rolls out a serving platter large enough to contain the sauce that will run off the rolls.