Helter Skelter Sweet Rolls

This is a simple cinnamon recipe that my mom likes to call 'Helter Skelter.' She got this from a coworker in Norfolk, NE in 1976. It's called 'Helter Skelter' because you tear two loaves of frozen bread dough and place it 'helter skelter' in the baking pan.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 30 mins
• Total Time: 45 mins
• Calories: 444 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• ½ cup butter
• 2 tablespoons milk
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ cup chopped walnuts (Optional)
• 2 (1 pound) loaves frozen bread dough, thawed
• 1 (4.6 ounce) package cook-and-serve vanilla pudding mix
• ½ cup raisins, divided (Optional)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

Step 2

Grease a 13x9-inch baking dish. Sprinkle walnuts into the bottom of the baking dish. Sprinkle about half the raisins with the walnuts.

Step 3

Tear one bread dough loaf into pieces; add to baking dish and top with remaining raisins.

Step 4

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.

Step 5

Tear remaining dough loaf into pieces and arrange into he pan, filling any empty spots with dough pieces.

Step 6

Let the dough raise for 2 1/2 hours to overnight.

Step 7

Bake in preheated oven until no longer doughy in the center, about 30 minutes. Cool rolls in pan for 15 minutes.

Step 8

Turn the rolls out onto a serving platter large enough to contain the sauce that will run off the rolls.