When the sun is shining almost every day, you’ve got an inexpressible feeling when it starts raining. You can breeze in fresh and cool air. All day has been gloomy, cool and windy. I made a huge mountain of these rolls early today. Then I wrapped up myself in a cozy blanket, filled a cup with my favorite Earl Grey tea, took few carrot rolls and sat outside to enjoy the sound of rain!
These freshly baked rolls with orange taste and cinnamon-ginger aroma added a real autumn-note to my day. 
Carrot rolls with orange marmalade
You can make the dough one day ahead.
*The weight before grating.
**You can substitute orange marmalade with apricot or peach jam.
Ingredients
300g plain flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/3 tsp ginger powder
a pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
1/3 fine salt
150g washed, cleaned carrots*, finely grated
150g butter, cold
100g sour cream (20% fat)
2-3 Tbsp white sugar (you can add more to suit your taste)
Filling
orange marmalade (with orange peel)**
dry-roasted hazelnuts, roughly chopped
Preparation method
- In a large mixing bowl, sift the flour and add spices. Cut butter into small cubes or grate it. Rub into the flour mixture until you get coarse crumbs. Mix in grated carrots.
- In another bowl whisk sour cream with sugar, fold into batter. You should get a soft dough. You may add a bit more flour if needed.
- Divide the dough into 2 parts and shape disks, cover each with a plastic wrap and put into the fridge for 30 minutes or overnight.
- Take one part of the dough from the fridge and roll it into a 2mm-thick circle. Cut into triangles; the size is up to you. Spread 1-2 teaspoons of orange marmalade on each triangle, add a teaspoon of hazelnuts and roll into croissant shape. Repeat with the second part of the dough.
- Arrange rolls on a lined baking tray. Sprinkle with more hazelnuts, if desired. Bake in preheated 190C oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden-brown.
- Serve warm or cooled.
Enjoy!
milkandbun 
These look so beautiful and delicious! Perfect for a rainy day… or any day. I love that I can make the dough the night before and assemble/bake in the morning as needed. Thanks!
Hello there! Yes, I tried and kept the dough for a day in the fridge, and it rolled out nicely. Thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you again! 🙂
They are delightful. I imagine they would be eaten warm in our house. No opportunity to get cold.
Thanks Conor!
I like your style – tea with wonderful pastry treats on a rainy afternoon.
The recipe contains two of my favourite things. I adore cinnamon and carrots.
Thank you! I hope you will give it a try! 🙂
It’s on my list
Ohhh my, these look so warm and fluffy.
Thank you, Brittany! Freshly baked roll are super tasty! 🙂
Nice. I am eating carrots at this moment :).
Hahaha So, you will love this treat! 🙂
Amazing!! I love the combinations!! Super
Everything works perfect together in these little treats! 🙂 Thanks for commenting!
Lovely recipe and great photographs…very chic presentation.
Thanks a lot for your comment! So easy to prepare but they taste and look fantastic, what can be better! 😀
Such a great idea to add carrots to the dough! 🙂
Thank you Ronit! Why not? 🙂
I agree – why not! 😀
What beautiful photographs! We had a rather gloomy day yesterday as well. One of these carrot rolls would have been delicious with a warm cup of tea 🙂
Thank you so much for the comment, Heather! I wish we could send each other some cookies and rolls! 🙂
That looks delicious!
Kari
That sounds like a perfect way to spend a gloomy day.
Of course! Baking can easily cheer you up! 🙂
A beautiful recipe 🙂
Thanks a lot! 🙂
Loving the ingredients in these carrot rolls, I could easily down 2 or 3 in one sitting 🙂
I could eat 4 or 5! 😀 They are small, about 7cm in lenth
We are going through a really long spell of cold, gray, rainy days and I think these sunshiny rolls would be just right to brighten things up 🙂 They look wonderful!!
Rolls are also crunchy and filled with magic! 😀 Thanks a lot for your sweet comment, Naina!
These rolls look divine, especially with the carrot and orange flavors, we have a beautiful winter wonderland outside with snow, just a perfect day to do some baking 🙂
These look incredible, and I have to say very different from any other roll I’ve seen. The addition of carrot is such a good idea!
Wow, I have never heard of carrot rolls, they look SO good, like little crescents! must taste amazing 🙂
Hi Stephanie! You haven’t heard of them may be because I created this recipe myself 😀 Glad to hear that you like it! Next step is to make these rolls! 🙂
oh that’s even better to learn! Good job on creating something completely new, I am in awe of your creativity! I will put this recipe on my to-do’s!
Aaaah that’s so sweet!
By the way, thanks for stopped by and nice to meet you! 🙂
Mila
Pingback: Top 10 Recipes of 2015 | milkandbun