Hot Chocolate Sweet Rolls with Marshmallow Frosting
If you follow on Instagram, you know that I have a ton of hot chocolate-related recipe ideas swirling through my head. But this one is the one I just couldn’t let go of – I knew I had to make these! I love cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning, but I wanted to try something new. So, here we are with these hot chocolate sweet rolls with marshmallow frosting!
You all know lately I’ve been into shortcuts and making things easier as we quickly approach baby #2. These are a most excellent short cut for sweet rolls! I used Pillsbury canned pizza crust and packets of hot chocolate. The most from-scratch part of this is the icing, which is only a few ingredients and a stand or hand mixer.
First, you’ll let the pizza crust sit out – in the can – on the counter for about 30 minutes and let the chill come out. This will allow the dough to be more malleable and easier to stretch out without it recoiling on you. You’ll also need 3 sticks of room temp butter and 4 oz (half a brick) of room temp cream cheese.
You prep your working surface with a bit of flour and then pop the pizza crust can open. Gently stretch out the pizza dough so it’s bit thinner. Set it aside and start working on the filling. The filling is SO simple, but you’ll want a stand or hand mixer to make sure you get a fluffy butter-based filling. Two packets of hot chocolate mix, 1/2 a cup of brown sugar, a bit of salt and two sticks of butter is all you need for the filling!
You’ll beat together the sugar, hot chocolate mix, butter and salt until it’s light and fluffy and then spread it over the prepared pizza dough with your hands. It’s easier and you won’t rip the pizza dough, so just do it with your hands! While the sweet rolls bake, you make the marshmallow frosting.
The frosting is a mixture of butter, cream cheese, marshmallow fluff and vanilla. You use a stand or hand mixer to beat it all together until it’s super light and fluffy. You can wait for the rolls to cool if you want a thicker frosting or spread the frosting on while the rolls are warm for a more warm and gooey frosting.
The tray of these hot chocolate sweet rolls went so fast this weekend! Let me know if you make them!
