Easy Overnight Sweet Rolls

Overnight Sweet Rolls - an easy breakfast dish for guests or family. Uses frozen roll dough, butterscotch pudding mix, pecans, and lots of butter!

These Overnight Sweet Rolls are one of BeeBop's favorites. They are so good. So easy, too. They're especially nice if you have a house full of overnight guests because you prepare everything the night before and bake them off the next morning.

But, I'm not going to lie to you. They are jam-packed full of buttery, sugary calories. That's why we have them only about once a year.

I have a cookbook software program that calculates the calories, fat, etc of a recipe. When I put this one in and pressed "calculate," it coughed twice and fell over on its side.

I got this recipe years ago from my friend, Joan, with whom I worked. She had gotten it from a friend, who got it from a friend, who got it....you understand.

Overnight Sweet Rolls - an easy breakfast dish for guests or family. Uses frozen roll dough, butterscotch pudding mix, pecans and lots of butter! Click To Tweet

How to Make Easy Overnight Sweet Rolls

I really love the simplicity of this recipe. There's no mixing, proofing, or kneading required at all. Instead of making the dough from scratch, you'll simply use frozen parker house rolls! Who would have ever thought that you could make delicious cinnamon rolls from frozen bread dough? 

The few other ingredients you'll need are pecans, butterscotch pudding mix, butter, sugar, and cinnamon. That's it.

A note about the pudding mix

For this recipe, you'll need the regular (Cook & Serve by Jell-o), non-instant type of butterscotch pudding mix. Apparently, non-instant butterscotch pudding mix is a rare commodity since I always have a little trouble finding it in my local grocery store.

So, my advice is if you try this and like it, and think you might make it more than once every five years, buy two or three boxes when you find them.

A question I often get is "Why can't I just use instant butterscotch pudding mix?" Well, the instant variety has a different thickening agent than the regular mix. That thickener will cause the pudding to more or less “congeal” while it sits on the thawing and rising rolls overnight. It will then separate and form into lumps instead of a smooth sauce-like topping. Not what you really want.

The night before:

Generously butter a 9x13 pan and spread the chopped nuts over the bottom.

Space the frozen rolls evenly on top of the nuts.

Sprinkle evenly with the dry pudding mix.

In a medium-size bowl, melt the butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon in the microwave. Start with one minute and stir. Then continue in 30-second increments, stirring after each, until the mixture is melted.

Be careful when checking your mixture. Use oven mitts or pot holders to remove the bowl from the microwave as it can get quick hot really quickly. Also, be careful with the melted mixture. It's hot and you can get a burn if it gets on your hands!

Stir the melted butter, sugar, and cinnamon until well blended.

Drizzle the melted mixture evenly over the top of the rolls.

Cover the pan loosely with waxed paper and place in a cold oven overnight.

A little trick to keep the waxed paper from sticking

Now here's a little trick: even waxed paper will stick to the thawed, risen rolls. So, to keep that from happening, I lay the waxed paper over the pan, spray the area that will touch the rolls with cooking spray, and then flip it over so that the sprayed side is over the rolls.

You can also use the non-stick aluminum foil and you won't even need to spray it. Works great!

The next morning:

The next morning you'll find that your rolls have defrosted and risen beautifully overnight! The lovely topping and chopped nuts are mostly on the bottom with the rolls on top just waiting to be baked up into warm, ooey-gooey sweet goodness.

So, remove the waxed paper or non-stick foil and discard it. Place the pan back into the cold oven and turn it on to 350 F. Bake for about 20 minutes or until the rolls are a lovely golden brown just like dinner rolls should be.

Remove the pan from the oven. Allow the sweet rolls to cool slightly (about 8-10 minutes should do) and then invert them onto a serving plate or board. Cut or pull apart the individual rolls.

Enjoy!

More breakfast recipes from Never Enough Thyme:

• Cream Cheese Filled Crescent Roll Pastries
• Cinnamon Brown Sugar Waffles
• Crescent Roll Breakfast Stacks
• Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing
• Sausage Gravy and Biscuits with Tomatoes

Sweet Roll recipes from other bloggers:

• Raspberry Sweet Rolls from Two Peas and Their Pod
• Blueberry Sweet Rolls from My Baking Addiction
• The Best Glazed Orange Sweet Rolls from Averie Cooks
• Pineapple Cream Cheese Sweet Rolls from Baking a Moment

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